Biography
Dr. Solon Moreira is a Tenured Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the Fox School of Business, where he teaches PhD, MBA, and Executive courses focusing on Corporate Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology Strategy. He previously worked as an Assistant Professor at IESE Business School. He has also taught in various countries worldwide, including the United States, Spain, Brazil, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Colombia, Indonesia, and Pakistan.
Solon’s research focuses on the link between innovation and firm performance. He is particularly interested in understanding how established corporations collaborate with startups and how firms use external sources of knowledge to adjust to a changing technological landscape. Some of the R&D strategies he investigates include technology licensing, strategic alliances, and M&As. His research has been published in leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Harvard Business Review, and Industrial and Corporate Change.
He has also received numerous awards for his work, including being named one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40-Under-40 Business School Professors, the International Business Review Best Paper Award, Best Overall Conference Paper Award at the Academy of International Business U.S. NE Annual Conference, and several Best Paper Proceedings at the Academy of Management Conference.
In addition to his research and teaching, Solon has advised and served on several PhD and DBA committees. His students have been placed at some of the best universities worldwide, including Santa Clara University, Ohio State University, University of Illinois Springfield, Louisiana State University, INSPER in Brazil, Bilkent University in Turkey, and the Ecole de Management Léonard de Vinci in France.
Solon has raised several research grants, including the AI Research Grants program from CustomGPT.ai, to support the development of new approaches to decision-making in entrepreneurship; The Research Funding Award to study gender diversity in technology deals from the Ethics Diversity and Workplace Culture (CEDWC) Research Center; CIBER Research and Program Development to study the global competitiveness of the US Biopharmaceutical industry; and the Digital Innovation Foundry (DIF) award to build and evaluate immersive metaverse environments.
Before joining academia, Solon was an entrepreneur and co-founded a trading company in Brazil. He has also been involved in research collaborations with multinational companies such as Royal Dutch Shell and Novo Nordisk.
Solon holds a Ph.D. in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy from Copenhagen Business School and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Innovation, Strategy, and Organization from the University of Cambridge.
Research Interests
- Entrepreneurship
- Start-up Collaboration
- Technology Deals
- R&D Strategy
- Emerging Technologies
- Strategic Intellectual Property
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
SGM 4596 | Strategic Business Planning: Feasibility Assessment / Business Planning for Entrepreneurial Ventures | Undergraduate |
BA 9683 | Research Project I | Graduate |
BA 9783 | Research Project II | Graduate |
SGM 5135 | Innovation Intelligence: Plan, Build, Protect, and Monetize a Technology / Innovation Portfolio | Graduate |
SGM 5137 | Entrepreneurial Thinking and New Venture Creation | Graduate |
SGM 5142 | Business Model Innovation | Graduate |
SGM 5148 | Open Innovation and Managing Strategic Alliances | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Moreira, S., Klueter, T.M., & Asija, A. (2023). Market for technology 2.0? Reassessing the role of complementary assets on licensing decisions. Research Policy, 52(7), 104787-104787. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104787.
Minbaeva, D., Muratbekova-Touron, M., Nayır, D., & Moreira, S. (2021). Individual responses to competing institutional logics in emerging markets. International Business Review, 30(4). doi: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101778.
Moreira, S. (2021). Don't Keep it All for Yourself; Let Them Work on It: A Dynamic Perspective to Appropriability and R&D Strategy. Fox Business Review, 1(1), 10-14.
Moreira, S., Mudambi, S., Carleton, M., & Fare, T. (2020). Letter to the Journal: The COVID-19 Innovation Race, a Case Study. Journal of Precision Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.thejournalofprecisionmedicine.com/the-journal-of-precision-medicine/letter-to-the-journal-the-covid-19-innovation-race-a-case-study/.
Moreira, S. & Soares, T. (2020). Academic spill-ins or spill-outs? Examining knowledge spillovers of university patents. Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(5), 1145-1165. doi: 10.1093/icc/dtaa011.
Moreira, S., Klueter, T., & Tasselli, S. (2020). Competition, technology licensing-in, and innovation. Organization Science, 31(4), 1012-1036. doi: 10.1287/orsc.2019.1337.
Moreira, S., Mudambi, R., Carleton, M., Fare, T., & Majors (2020). Organizational Legitimacy and Rents from Blockbuster Innovation in the Biopharma Industry. Journal of Precision Medicine.
Moreira, S. & Tae, C. (2019). The effect of industry leaders’ exploratory innovation on competitor performance. Industry and Innovation, 26(9), 965-987. doi: 10.1080/13662716.2019.1593111.
Moreira, S., Cabaleiro, G., & Reichstein, T. (2019). Licensing decision: A rent dissipation lens applied to product market competition, openness to external knowledge and exogenous sunk costs. Industrial and Corporate Change, 28(4), 773-792. doi: 10.1093/icc/dty036.