A National Science Foundation Workshop

Partnerships

Building a New Foundation for Innovation

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Mariann Jelinek

Mariann Jelinek is currently Director of the Innovation and Organizational Change Program at the National Science Foundation, on loan from her regular at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she has been Richard C. Kraemer Professor of Business since 1989. She holds the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business (1977), as well as the A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Her career interests include innovation, technology, and their strategic implications; organization learning; administrative systems and organization design, topics on which she has written extensively. Dr. Jelinek's prior academic postings include the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, where she held the Lewis-Progressive Chair; the State University of New York at Albany; McGill University; and Dartmouth College. She is author or co-author of five books including Innovation Marathon with C.B. Schoonhoven, and 40 papers, including the 1995 "Best Paper of the Year" in Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. She is active in professional societies including the Academy of Management and the Eastern Academy of Management, where she is Fellow and Past President. Current research interests include entrepreneurship; management of technology and innovation; and the impact of social and institutional contexts on innovation.