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Ajay Agrawal

Professor

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

Orcid identifier0000-0002-0911-2194
  • Professor
    Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

BIO

Ajay Agrawal is the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management where he conducts research on the economics of artificial intelligence, science policy, entrepreneurial finance, and geography of innovation. Professor Agrawal is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, co-founder of The Next 36 and NextAI, and founder of the Creative Destruction Lab.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor, Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
    University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada2014 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada2008 - 2014
  • Research Associate
    National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, United States2008 - present
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada2003 - 2008
  • Assistant Professor
    Queen's University, Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Canada2001 - 2003
  • Lecturer
    University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada1998 - 1998

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Founder and Academic Director
    Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada2012 - present
  • Cofounder and Academic Director
    NEXT Canada, Canada2010 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD, Strategy & Business Economics
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • Visiting Scholar - PhD Dissertation Research
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
  • MBA - Visiting Scholar
    London Business School, London, United Kingdom
  • BSc
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Lawson Climate Institute (LCI)