Leadership
Dave Townsend
Founding Director
Digges Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship.
Research
His research asks how AI reshapes entrepreneurial reasoning, resource mobilization, and the methods we use to study venturing. He is head of the Cyborg Entrepreneurship Lab, which combines traditional and emerging mixed methods (e.g., computational, agent-based modeling, behavioral experiments, and econometric analysis) and fundamental theory development to explore the emerging frontier where human judgment and machine intelligence integrate.
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Field Editor in Strategic Entrepreneurship at the Journal of Business Venturing and Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange (EIX.org) — a philanthropically supported entrepreneurship research translation platform connecting practitioners and scholars across a global community of practice. Also Guest Editor of AI & Entrepreneurship special issues at JBV and the Journal of Management Studies.
Editorial leadershipEducation
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma