Appendix B

Biographies of Committee Members

Maryann P. Feldman (Co-Chair) is the Watts professor in the Department of Public Policy at Arizona State University. Feldman was the winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research for her contributions to the study of the geography of innovation and the role of entrepreneurial activity in the formation of regional industry clusters. Her most recent work explores the emergence of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. Feldman served as co-chair of the congressionally mandated National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine studies of the SBIR and STTR programs at the Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation.

Scott Stern (Co-Chair) is the David Sarnoff professor of management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management. Stern explores how innovation and entrepreneurship differ from more traditional economic activities and the consequences of these differences for strategy and policy. His research in the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship focuses on entrepreneurial strategy, innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems, and innovation policy and management. Recent studies include the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, the role of institutions in shaping the accumulation of scientific and technical knowledge, and the drivers and consequences of entrepreneurial strategy. Stern started his career at MIT, where he worked from 1995 to 2001. Before returning to MIT in 2009, he held positions as a professor at the Kellogg School of Management and as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Stern was the cofounder and director (through 2021) of the Innovation Policy Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2005, he was awarded the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. Stern has served and contributed to a number of National Academies committees and boards, including the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy; The Future of Supercomputing (2004); Copyright in the Digital Era (2013); and An Assessment of ARPA-E (2017). Along with Maryann Feldman, he has also served as co-chair of three consensus committees examining

the SBIR and STTR programs at Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation, respectively. Stern holds a B.A. in economics from New York University and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Michael J. Andrews is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He studies the economics of innovation with research focusing on the role of public investments in developing local innovation ecosystems and on quantifying how social interactions lead to the generation and diffusion of new ideas. Much of his research uses historical data and settings, especially data on historical patents and the history of U.S. higher education. Andrews’ work has received funding from the Kauffman Foundation and a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Iowa, as well as an M.A. in economics from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in economics and B.S. in supply chain management, both from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining UMBC, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University and at the National Bureau of Economics Research.

Andrea Belz is vice dean of transformative initiatives at the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, research director at the Information Sciences Institute, director of translational strategy for California Defense Ready Electronics and Microdevices Superhub (California DREAMS), director of the Center for Research in Space Technologies (CREST), and professor of practice in industrial and systems engineering, where she specializes in engineering policy and technology strategy. She has previously served as a visiting professor of engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2019 to 2022, Belz served as division director at the National Science Foundation, where she oversaw the agency’s translational research activities (including the SBIR/STTR programs) and the launch of the Translational Impacts Division in the new Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships. From 2016 to 2019, she served as the inaugural vice dean of technology innovation and entrepreneurship at USC Viterbi, following her creation of Innovation Node–Los Angeles, a regional center of excellence for the NSF I-Corps program. Previously, Belz spent 10 years serving as a consulting systems engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory, leading roadmap efforts for the Solar System Exploration Directorate in topics ranging from life detection; electronics for extreme environments; and guidance, navigation, and control systems. Belz has consulted to multiple startups, inventors, and venture capital firms over the years; she served on the board of Caltech spinoff Ondax until its acquisition in 2018. She serves as a senior advisor at the Aerospace Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for the United States Air Force. She is president of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. She holds a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear

physics from Caltech, a B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park, and an M.B.A. in finance from the Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business.

Janet Bercovitz joined the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder in fall 2017 as professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and was named the Deming professor of entrepreneurship in 2019. She previously taught at the Geis College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Bercovitz’s research program consists of two main research streams: the first concentrates on extending understanding of academic entrepreneurship and university–industry technology transfer, and the second stream focuses on issues of organizational structure and interorganizational contractual relationships. Her research has been published in major journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Research Policy, and the Journal of Technology Transfer. Bercovitz currently serves on the editorial review boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, and Research Policy. She served on the 5-year leadership team for the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, completing her term in August 2023. Bercovitz holds a B.S. in chemistry, and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in business and public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

M. Diane Burton is the Joseph R. Rich ’80 professor in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she directs the Institute for Compensation Studies and serves on the advisory board for the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies. Burton studies employment relations and organizational change in entrepreneurial companies. Her primary research is a major study of high-tech startups in Silicon Valley with an emphasis on entrepreneurial teams and executive careers. Burton led an interdisciplinary research team in a 3-year project on the social science of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship and was part of an international team studying the career consequences of entrepreneurial employment. She earned her undergraduate degree in social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, an M.Ed. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and her Ph.D. in organizational sociology at Stanford University.

Ramalingam “Rama” Chellappa is a Bloomberg distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a nontenured position as a College Park professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. Chellappa’s research interests are in computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He received the 2012 K. S. Fu Prize from the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and is a recipient of the Society, Technical Achievement, and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Computer Society,

and the Inaugural Leadership Award from the IEEE Biometrics Council. Chellappa received the 2020 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal for Signal Processing, the 2024 Edwin H. Land Medal from Optica, the 2025 Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement award, and the Distinguished Researcher in Computer Vision award from the IEEE Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, IAPR, IEEE, the National Academy of Inventors, the Optical Society of America, and the Washington Academy of Sciences, and he holds nine patents. Chellappa is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and he has previously served on a number of National Academies consensus study committees, workshops, and standing boards. He served as CEO for two small businesses, ImageCorp and MUKH Technologies, LLC, which received SBIR awards from the Department of Defense. He earned his doctorate in electrical engineering at Purdue University.

Donna Ginther is the Roy A. Roberts and Regents distinguished professor of economics and the director of the Institute for Policy and Social Research at the University of Kansas and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the University of Kansas faculty, she held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Washington University, and Southern Methodist University. Ginther’s major fields of study are scientific labor markets, gender differences in employment outcomes, wage inequality, scientific entrepreneurship, children’s educational attainments, and child abuse and neglect. She received her doctorate in economics in 1995, master’s degree in economics in 1991, and B.A. in economics in 1987, all from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Jorge Guzman is the Gantcher associate professor of business at Columbia University and a faculty research fellow in the Innovation Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the cofounder of the Startup Cartography Project, a project aiming to measure the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship in the United States at any level of granularity. Guzman’s research focuses on the measurement of entrepreneurship and the role of entrepreneurship in the economy, including the evolution of economic clusters and their role in enabling startups, entrepreneurial motivations, and entrepreneurial strategy. He was also a leader of the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines study group. Guzman was previously the entrepreneurship postdoctoral scholar at NBER and has a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in computer engineering from Tec de Monterrey.

Lauren Lanahan is associate professor of management and the Inman research scholar at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. Her research investigates the relationship between institutions and the production of scientific knowledge. Lanahan examines outcomes related to innovation, technological change, and economic growth. She has published in a range of outlets including American Economic Review, Organization Science, Research Policy, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Lanahan has served as a committee member on two National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reviews of the SBIR/STTR programs, those of the programs at the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. She received her Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and previously worked at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences.

The Honorable Ellen Lord served as the first Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment from 2017 to 2021, leading the Department of Defense’s personnel, policy and processes for acquisition of hardware, software and services. Lord has more than 30 years of corporate experience in the automotive, aerospace and defense industries, serving in a variety of capacities and culminating in her role as president and CEO of Textron Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Textron Inc. from 2012 to 2017. Currently, Lord serves on the Board of Directors for AAR Corporation, Parsons Corporation, SES S.A., Exiger, LightRidge Solutions, and Rebellion Defense. She is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and serves on the Advisory Board for MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She advises a number of aerospace, defense, and industrial companies and serves as vice-chair of the Naval Institute Board of Directors. Lord served as vice-chair for the Congressional Commission on the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Process and was tri-chair of the Center for a New American Security Defense Technology Task Force, both groups having published final reports in 2024. Lord has a B.A. in chemistry from Connecticut College and an M.S. in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire.

Victor R. McCrary is vice provost for National Security Innovation at The Catholic University of America. Previously, he served as vice president for research at the University of the District of Columbia. McCrary has held similar research leadership positions at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Morgan State University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He served two terms as the national president of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and he is a fellow of the American Chemical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently the elected chair of the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation. He received his doctoral degree in chemistry from Howard University in 1986, a master’s degree in engineering from the University of

Pennsylvania in 1995, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from The Catholic University of America in 1978.

J. Michael McQuade is director of the program on Emerging Technology, Scientific Advancement, and Global Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as special advisor to the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he provided strategic advice on the university’s research enterprise and advocating for the role that science, technology, and innovation play nationally and globally. From 2019 to 2021, he served as vice president for research at CMU. From 2006 to 2018, McQuade served as senior vice president for science and technology at United Technologies Corporation, where his responsibilities included providing strategic oversight and guidance for research, engineering and development activities throughout the business units of the corporation and at the United Technologies Research Center. He held senior positions with technology development and business management at 3M and Eastman Kodak, and served as vice president of 3M’s Medical Division and president of Eastman Kodak’s Health Imaging Business. McQuade has served as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, and the Defense Innovation Board. He holds Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in physics from Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in experimental high-energy physics for research performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Kyle Myers is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School (HBS). His research revolves around the economics of innovation and lies at the intersection of science, business, and public policy. Myers served as a committee member on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s review of the SBIR and STTR programs at the National Institutes of Health. He has an M.S. in health policy and management and a B.S. in biology from The Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. from the Wharton School’s Department of Health Care Management and Economics. Prior to joining HBS, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Arun Seraphin is the executive director of the Emerging Technologies Institute at the National Defense Industrial Association. In this role, he helps lead a nonpartisan institute focused on technologies that are critical to the future of national defense and provides research and analyses to inform the development and integration of emerging technologies and policies to support defense missions. Between 2014 and 2021, Seraphin was a professional staff member on the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. His areas of responsibility included acquisition policy, funding and policies for the

Department of Defense’s science and technology programs and information technology systems, technology transition issues, defense laboratories and test ranges, Small Business Innovation Research program, manufacturing programs, test and evaluation programs, and Pentagon management issues. Seraphin rejoined the committee staff in 2014, after previously serving there between 2001 and 2010. From 2010 to 2014, he served as principal assistant director for National Security and International Affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). During this time, he both led (in an acting capacity) and served as the deputy director of the OSTP National Security and International Affairs division. Seraphin was on detail to OSTP from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he was the special assistant for policy initiatives to the director of DARPA. He has also worked on the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science’s Subcommittee on Research and the Institute for Defense Analyses. He has a Ph.D. in electronic materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an undergraduate degree in American Government and Engineering Science from the State University of New York Stony Brook.

Stephanie S. Shipp is a research professor at Iowa State University (ISU). At ISU Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, she is introducing federal household and business statistics to enrich survey analyses. Until recently, in 2024, she was acting director and professor in the Social and Decision Analytics Division of the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia. As a member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service, she led the Economic Assessment Office for the Advanced Technology Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, enhancing economic evaluation by collaborating with academic researchers to explore innovative companies conducting high-risk research. Beginning her career at the Federal Reserve Board, she has also directed programs at the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fostering partnerships across federal agencies. Her research at the Institute of Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute contributed to analyses for the White House on advanced manufacturing trends. She also led projects examining innovation and technology transfer with the departments of Energy and Defense. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from The George Washington University.

Rosemarie Ziedonis is a professor of strategy and innovation at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, where she has also served as academic director for entrepreneurship. She is associate editor at Management Science and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research Program on Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Ziedonis’s research examines the value and strategic use of intellectual property and broader aspects of innovation policy and management. Prior to joining Boston University, she served on the faculty at the University of Oregon; the Wharton School; and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, where she codirected the Program for Law, Economics, and Technology. Ziedonis has a Ph.D. in business and public policy

from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and an undergraduate degree in economics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.