Matt Marx
- Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and External Engagement
- Bruce F. Failing Sr. Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Department Editor for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Management Science
- Head, Innovation Information Initiative (I3)
- Research Associate, NBER
I work on reducing barriers to the commercialization of science and technology — as a scholar, as Cornell's vice provost for innovation, and previously as an executive and engineer at two speech-recognition startups. I curate open datasets at relianceonscience.org and teach courses on entrepreneurship, AI, and large language models. (Full bio)
What's New
- JUN 2026Named Cornell's Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and External Engagement
- 2026Winner of the Bradford-Osborne Research Award for “Minimum Viable Signal: Venture Funding, Social Movements, and Race”
- 2026“Pasteur's quadrant researchers bring novelty, impact to publishing and patenting” in Science
- 2026“Startups, Unicorns, and the Local Supply of Inventors” — Review of Economics and Statistics
- 2026“Minimum Viable Signal: Venture Funding, Social Movements, and Race” — Management Science
- 2026“Funding Black High-Growth Startups” — Journal of Finance
- 2026“Cassatts in the Attic: Is There a Gender Gap in the Commercialization of Science?” — American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- 2026“Beyond Blame: Attribution, Evaluative Stigma, and Employee Careers after Employer Failure” — Administrative Science Quarterly