Frank T. Rothaermel (Ph.D.) is a Sloan Industry Studies Fellow and holds the Angel and Stephen M. Deedy Professorship at Georgia Tech as well as a National Science Foundation CAREER award. Frank’s research interests lie in the areas of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He has conducted extensive field work and executive training with leading corporations like Amgen, Daimler, Eli Lilly, GE Energy Systems, GE Healthcare, ICOS, Kimberly-Clark, McKesson, Microsoft, Thomson Financial, among others. BusinessWeek named Frank one of Georgia Tech’s Prominent Faculty and the Kauffman Foundation views Frank as one of the world’s 75 thought leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation. Read more »
Latest Research Translations
Combining Innovation Strategies
MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring 2010: 12-15.
Finding an Innovation Strategy that Works
Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2009.
Latest Research
When Are Assets Complementary? Star Scientists, Strategic Alliances and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Strategic Management Journal, 32: forthcoming (2011).
Leveraging Internal and External Experience: Exploration, Exploitation, and R&D Project Performance
Strategic Management Journal, 31: 734-758 (2010).
Ambidexterity in Technology Sourcing: The Moderating Role of Absorptive Capacity
Organization Science, 20: 759-780 (2009).
Latest News
Frank (with Kostas Grigoriou) won the 2010 DRUID Conference Best Paper Award continue reading »
Frank (with Drew Hess) writes about Innovation Strategy and Competitive Advantage in the Wall Street Journal continue reading »
Frank was recently awarded the inaugural Byars Excellence in Research Award at Georgia Tech. continue reading »
Frank (with Drew Hess) recently won the Best Paper Prize at the second annual Israel Strategy Conference for the study “Ambidexterity and Innovative Performance: The Role of Intellectual Human Capital and Strategic Alliances.” Of 72 submitted paper proposals, five were nominated as finalists. Reviewers judged the papers on their innovativeness, contributions to the field of strategic management, and rigor of the research analysis, design, methodology, and presentation. continue reading »
Frank (with Drew Hess) won the 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Best Paper Award for his holistic examination of strategies employed by pharmaceutical firms for innovating in the realm of biotechnology. Titled “Building Dynamic Capabilities: Innovation Driven by Individual-, Firm-, and Network-level Effects,” the study was … continue reading »
Strategic alliances between companies are more important than ever in many industries, but large corporations don’t seem to be learning from past experiences at making these partnerships work, suggests a study by Frank T. Rothaermel. continue reading »
Frank T. Rothaermel became the first member of the Georgia Tech College of Management faculty to receive the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award. He also was one of only four young scholars in the United States or Canada to win a 2006 Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. continue reading »