Matt Marx is the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and is the inaugural Faculty Director of Entrepreneurship@Cornell. An expert on innovation with six patents and multiple publications in computer science, he teaches executive, MBA, and undergraduate classes on Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. Marx leads the Innovation Information Initiative (I3), curates several open datasets at relianceonscience.org, serves as Department Editor for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Management Science, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Matt was previously an executive and software engineer at two successful startup companies. (See full bio.)
Winner of the 2026 Bradford-Osborne Research Award for "Minimum Viable Signal: Venture Funding, Social Movements, and Race"
"Pasteur’s quadrant researchers bring novelty, impact to publishing and patenting" Science
"Startups, Unicorns, and the Local Influx of Inventors" forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics
"Minimum Viable Signal: Venture Funding, Social Movements, and Race" forthcoming in Management Science
"Funding Black High-Growth Startups" forthcoming in Journal of Finance
"Cassatts in the Attic: Is There a Gender Gap in the Commercialization of Science?" forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
"Beyond Blame: Attribution, Evaluative Stigma, and Employee Careers after Employer Failure" forthcoming at Administrative Science Quarterly