Donald S. Siegel | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (B.A.) Columbia Business School (Ph.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Managerial economics |
| Institutions | Arizona State University |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (1988) |
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Donald S. Siegel is an American economist and a leading scholar of innovation and technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility. He is Regents Professor and Foundation Professor of Public Policy and Management and co-Executive Director of the Global Center for Technology Transfer at Arizona State University. [1]
Siegel received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Columbia Business School in 1988. [1] He then received a Sloan Research Fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He then taught at Stony Brook University, was chair of industrial economics at University of Nottingham's business school, and chaired Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's department of economics before moving to University of California, Riverside, where he was associate dean. [1]
From 2008 to 2016, Siegel served as dean of the University of Albany's business school, [2] where he concurrently served as professor. He joined the Arizona State University faculty in 2017, where he served as Director of the School of Public Affairs from 2017-2022. [1] In 2022, he was appointed to lead ASU's Global Center for Technology Transfer. [3] His scholarship has focused on technology transfer from universities and laboratories to firms, technology and entrepreneurship, as well as corporate governance and social responsibility. [4]
Siegel was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022. [5] He is also a fellow of the Academy of Management and was elected its dean of fellows in 2020. [6] In 2025, he was named a Regents Professor at ASU, the highest faculty honor [7]
Siegel served as the general editor of the Journal of Management Studies . [8]