Innovation Strategy
and Policy Lab
Discover the Duke ISP Lab
Innovation shapes how organizations compete, industries evolve, and societies prosper. The Innovation Strategy and Policy Lab at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business advances the “Duke school” tradition, a distinctive research approach that examines how firms innovate from within and how broader systems of actors across industry, finance, academia, and government shape innovation outcomes.
Drawing on Duke’s exceptional community of senior, mid-career, and emerging scholars, along with collaborators across professional schools and research centers, the ISP Lab serves as a global hub for innovation strategy and policy research.
Our research streams
Corporate R&D
Firm-level organizational structures, internal processes, and strategic mechanisms that drive innovative capacity.
Entrepreneurship
Venture formation dynamics, entrepreneurial strategy, and the economic factors influencing new firm performance.
Deep Tech
Science-based innovation, pathways for technology commercialization, and the translation of fundamental research into economic value.
Innovation Ecosystems
How universities, firms, and governments interact to propel science and technological progress.
Innovation Policy
Policy interventions and regulatory frameworks that shape science, technology development, and national innovation systems.
Crisis Innovation
Adaptive innovation responses, resource reallocation mechanisms, and organizational resilience in response to emergent disruptions.
Research Data & Software
Open-source datasets, methodological tools, and computational resources for research on innovation strategy and policy.
Press, Perspectives, and Public Impact
In the news
Expert perspectives
Public impact
Research by Wes Cohen cited by IADB
December 31, 2025
Research by Daniel P. Gross cited by Congressional Research Service
December 22, 2025
Research by Daniel P. Gross cited by the World Bank
December 11, 2025
Research by Daniel P. Gross cited by Congress
September 11, 2025
The Team at Duke ISP
Leadership
Daniel P. Gross, PhD
Associate Professor
Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Co-Director, Duke ISP Lab
Sharique Hasan, PhD
Professor
Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Co-Director, Duke ISP Lab
Amber McComb
Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Coordinator, Duke ISP Lab
Core Faculty
Ashish Arora
Rex D. Adams Professor
Duke University
Fuqua School of Business
Sharon Belenzon
Fundación Damm Professor
Duke University
Fuqua School of Business
Wesley Cohen
Snow Family Professor
Duke University
Fuqua School of Business
David Ridley
Professor of the Practice
Duke University
Fuqua School of Business
Current Students
Yeqing Liu
PhD Student
Roger Masclans
PhD Student
William Miles
PhD Student
Jay Prakash Nagar
PhD Student
Rakeen Tanvir
PhD Student
Hansen Zhang
PhD Student
Postdoctoral Fellows
Coming soon!
Alumni
Larisa Cioaca
Assistant Professor
Tulane University
Freeman School of Business
Honggi Lee
Assistant Professor
UMass Amherst
Isenberg School of Management
Dror Shvadron
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Rotman School of Management
Lia Sheer
Assistant Professor
Tel Aviv University
Coller School of Management
JK Suh
Assistant Professor
New York University
Stern School of Business
Colleen Cunningham
Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Eccles School of Business
Divya Sabastian
Assistant Professor
Indian School of Business
Current and Past Visitors
Coming soon!
How to engage with the ISP Lab
The ISP Lab provides multiple channels through which scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and students engage with frontier research in innovation strategy and policy:
Learn about our research
Participate in our annual conferences
Draw on our research infrastructure
Join virtual PhD seminars (in preparation)
Engage through executive education
Work with us or visit us
The Duke ISP Lab is supported by:
