Saratoga Springs man among top researchers
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. » The Journal of Small Business Management has named Saratoga Springs resident and Babson College Professor Andrew Corbett one of the one of top 25 entrepreneurship researchers in the world.
The designation is contained in a study published by the Journal called, “Contributing Forces in Entrepreneurship Research: A Global Citation Analysis.”
The study performed an analysis of all entrepreneurship articles published in leading entrepreneurship and management outlets from 2002 to 2013.
It calculated the volume of work done by professors around the world together with each article’s citation impact, a measure that shows how much a researcher’s work is used by other scholars, entrepreneurs, and practicing managers. The study concludes that Corbett ranks 20th in entrepreneurship research impact globally. He has been at Babson since 2011, after spending a decade at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.
Corbett is the Paul T. Babson chair of entrepreneurship, and chair of the Entrepreneurship Division at Babson, near Boston.
His work spans a number of areas including behavior that leads to individuals starting new businesses, how large corporations can innovate and act entrepreneurially, and entrepreneurship education.
His research also examines entrepreneurial ecosystems – the symbiotic relationship between individuals, firms, and other organizations to drive regional development – which is seen locally through the impact GlobalFoundries, in Malta, has had on the development of other local businesses and job growth.
In addition to his roles as professor and chair, Corbett mentors Babson entrepreneurs in the college’s Butler Launchpad; he is a visiting professor of entrepreneurship at Nord University Business School in Bodø, Norway; and is editor of the Journal of Business Venturing, a leading entrepreneurship journal.
He has written dozens of scholarly research articles, edited eight books, and co-authored an entrepreneurship textbooks used by thousands of students around the globe.
His soon-to-be-released book, “Beyond the Champion,” co-authored with colleagues from RPI, examines how large corporations need to organize and develop their people in order to continually create breakthrough innovations.