Appendix B

Biographies of Committee Members

Maryann P. Feldman (Co-Chair) is Watts professor in the Department of Public Policy at Arizona State University. Feldman won 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 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs at the Department of Energy (2018–2020), National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Department of Defense.

Scott Stern (Co-Chair) is 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 university research on both the quantity and quality of entrepreneurship, the drivers and consequences of entrepreneurial strategy, the impact of regional clusters, and the role of institutions in shaping the rate and direction of innovation. Stern is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and was cofounder and director of the NBER Innovation Policy Working Group. He previously served as a professor at the Kellogg School of Management and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In 2005, Stern was awarded the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. He 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 four consensus committees examining the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs at Department of Energy (2018–2020), National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Department of Defense. Stern holds a B.A. in economics from New York University and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Gregory W. Autry is associate provost for space commercialization and strategy at the University of Central Florida. Previously he was director of space leadership, policy, and business in the Thunderbird School of Global Management and Affiliate Professor with the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University. He is also a visiting professor in the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College London. Autry’s research is focused on the role of government in the emergence of new industries. He has taught technology entrepreneurship at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Southern California. Autry authored the textbook A New Entrepreneurial Dynamic. He served on the 2016 Agency Review Team and as White House liaison at NASA and was nominated to serve as NASA’s chief financial officer in 2020. He also served as chair of the Safety Working Group on the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee at the Federal Aviation Administration. Autry is vice president for space development at the National Space Society and a member of the Academy of Management and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Autry holds an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.

Dianne Chong was vice president in The Boeing Company’s Engineering, Operations & Technology organization, where she led materials and manufacturing research and development and production program integration for the entire enterprise. She supported production support and research and development for all program areas—military, commercial, and space. Chong was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Washington State Academy of Science in 2017. She serves on the NAE Council and the National Research Council Governing Board. She has co-chaired EngineerGirl and served on the Pathways to Engineering steering team. She has served on several National Academies boards and committees and led the effort to assess the portfolio for Practices for Engineering Education and Research (PEER) Program and is leading the PEER Implementation Advisory Group. Among many other service and leadership positions, Chong served on the National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering Advisory Committee. She received an award for alumna achievement from the University of Illinois in 2019 and has received numerous technical and diversity awards. Chong was inducted into the first class of the Women in Manufacturing Hall of Fame. She received bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology, and master’s degrees in physiology and metallurgical engineering. Chong received her doctorate in metallurgical engineering from the

University of Illinois. She has an Executive Master of Manufacturing Management degree from Washington University and a green belt in Six Sigma.

Jeannette Colyvas holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a professor at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, the Institute for Complex Systems, and (by courtesy) the Kellogg School of Management, the Department of Sociology, and the Institute for Policy Research. Her research interests include innovation in science policy and practice; comparing public, private, and nonprofit forms of organizing; performance metrics; and institutional change. Her publications appear in diverse journals such as Management Science, Research Policy, Minerva, Organization Science, Research in Organizational Behavior, Sociological Theory, Academy of Management Review, and the American Journal of Education. Support for her research has come from competitive grants from government, university, and foundation sources. Colyvas currently teaches courses related to leadership, innovation, and organizational change at the undergraduate, MBA, doctoral, and executive levels. She previously served on the National Academies committee assessing the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs at the Department of Energy (2018–2020).

Alexandra E. Graddy-Reed is associate professor of public policy at the University of Southern California in the Price School of Public Policy. She is also research director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps Hub West Region. Her research is focused on the financing of innovation, specifically examining the impacts of federal and philanthropic grantmaking on research and development (R&D), small business and entrepreneurship, and scientific career paths. She also studies how bias exists and is mitigated in R&D funding and innovation. Graddy-Reed has previously studied the NASA Small Business Innovation Research program with respect to its impact across firm size, issues around gender bias in the peer review process, and the role of geography in award selection. She received her Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree from Hendrix College.

Jorge Guzman is 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), where he codirects the Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp. 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 Regional Innovation Engines study group. Guzman was previously the entrepreneurship postdoc at NBER. He has a Ph.D. and MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in computer engineering from Tec de Monterrey.

Amol M. Joshi is founder and CEO of Scalable Sciences, Inc., an innovation analytics software firm helping research and development organizations, investors, entrepreneurs, and governments evaluate and commercialize new and emerging technologies in the health care, computing, materials, and aerospace/defense sectors. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Center for Healthcare Innovation at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he advises health system leaders on developing and scaling AI-based solutions deployed in clinical settings and hospital operations. He also mentors physician-inventors and medical researchers on the best pathways for patenting, protecting, and licensing their intellectual property. Joshi is adjunct associate professor of innovation and commercialization at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), where he serves as course director for innovation management in the M.S. in translational biotechnology program. His ongoing joint research with WFIRM analyzes the adoption of AI technologies by health systems for the early detection and diagnosis of chronic diseases. He previously served on National Academies committees examining the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs at the Department of Energy (2018–2020), National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation. Joshi received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his MBA and M.S. in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College, and his B.S. in electrical engineering (with highest honor) from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Shawn Kantor is L. Charles Hilton Jr. distinguished professor of economics and director of the Hilton Center for the Study of Economic Prosperity and Individual Opportunity at Florida State University. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His current research examines the economic effects of public research and development on regional growth, including work on knowledge spillovers from research universities and the economic impact of expenditures by NASA during the Space Race. His earlier research has examined property rights in the postbellum South, the origins of workers’ compensation in the United States, and the economic effects of New Deal spending during the Great Depression. His research has received extensive support from the National Science Foundation. Kantor earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in social science from the California Institute of Technology and his B.A. in economics and history from the University of Rochester.

Robert A. Lieberman is president of Lumoptix LLC, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He worked for 10 years at AT&T Bell Labs in the Semiconductor Development, Physics Research, and Materials Research laboratories. Lieberman became vice president of research and development at Physical Optics Corporation (POC) in 1991, and in 1998 spun off his division of POC to found Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS). In addition to serving as president and chief technology officer, Lieberman maintained an active research

career as principal investigator for the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and other U.S. agencies until his retirement from IOS in 2015. He continues to work on scientific and engineering research and policy through his consulting firm, Lumoptix. Lieberman holds 34 U.S. patents on biological, physical, and chemical sensors and systems, and has organized and chaired more than 30 conferences on optical sensors. He is a life member of IEEE and a fellow of the Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and he was SPIE’s 2016 president. He was a founding member of the National Photonics Initiative and currently serves as director and/or advisory board member of several for- and nonprofit organizations. Lieberman received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan.

David W. Miller is chief technology officer (CTO) for astronomy and fundamental physics at the Jet Propulsion Lab; he is also Jerome C Hunsaker professor post tenure of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Miller has served previously as CTO for The Aerospace Corporation and NASA. His experience in technology guidance experience includes his role as vice chair and science and technology (S&T) chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, where he led the annual review of the Air Force Research Laboratory, the management of The Aerospace Corporation’s independent research and development program, technology investment prioritization and interagency S&T partnerships at NASA headquarters, and numerous research collaborations with small businesses with Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer awards while at MIT. He developed three major technology research laboratories that flew on Shuttle, Mir, and the International Space Station (ISS), including the first crew-interactive experiment on ISS. Miller is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He earned several NASA spaceflight Group Achievement awards and an Air Force Exceptional Public Service award. Miller received his B.S., M.S., and Sc.D. in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.

Bhaven Sampat is professor in the School of Government and Policy at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program. An economist by training, Sampat’s work focuses on the economics, law, history, and political economy of science and technology. Among other topics, he has studied U.S. and global patent policy, the politics and economics of publicly funded science, the roles of the government in pharmaceutical innovation, the economic history of the U.S. innovation system, patent-based measures of innovation, and university–industry technology transfer. He previously served as a member of the National Academies committee evaluating the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs at the National Institutes of Health.

Craig J. Scott is professor and interim associate chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University, where he has been a faculty member since 1992. Prior to his academic career, he served as an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory and as a microelectronics process engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Scott has served as interim dean of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering and chaired the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has also served as an Office of Advanced Manufacturing associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Scott is actively involved in the U.S. Department of Transportation SMARTER Center’s autonomous vehicle research initiatives. He is a member of the IEEE, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society for Engineering Education, Association for Computing Machinery, and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Scott received the ASME Foundation Swanson Fellowship and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association Diversity Award. He has served on numerous national panels and boards, including those for the National Academy of Sciences and the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics, and has served as president of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium. His primary focus is on advancing engagement with and workforce development at historically Black colleges and universities. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Howard University in 1979, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1981, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Howard University in 1991.

Stephanie S. Shipp is research professor at Iowa State University (ISU). At the ISU Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, she is introducing federal household and business statistics to enrich survey analyses. Until recently, 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, Shipp 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. Shipp 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.

Eric Stallmer is executive vice president for government affairs and public policy for Voyager Technologies. He is responsible for representing the interests of Voyager to key government institutions, including Congress, the White House, and the many federal agencies that impact the company’s success. Prior to joining

Voyager, Stallmer was president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the most recognized and largest trade organization dedicated to promoting policies and best practices that foster the development of the commercial spaceflight industry. He has served on several federal advisory boards, including the Defense Innovation Board and the Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee. Stallmer was appointed to the National Space Council Users’ Advisory Group, where he sat on the Executive Committee and served as co-chair of the Economic Development and Industrial Base Subcommittee. He has testified numerous times to the U.S. Congress and state legislatures. Stallmer served as an officer in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves. His final assignment as a reservist was at the Pentagon in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army. He received his MPA from George Mason University.

Janet Vertesi is associate professor of sociology at Princeton University and has spent nearly 20 years studying NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams as an ethnographer and social scientist. She is solo author of the award-winning books Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars and Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams (both University of Chicago Press) and co-editor of the MIT Press Infrastructures Series. Vertesi also publishes in top-ranked venues in the sociology of science and technology and human–computer interaction. Her research on NASA has been funded by numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, and her current work at CERN is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She has served on NASA independent review boards for two missions and is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and former advisory board member of the Data and Society Institute. Vertesi received her Ph.D. in science and technology studies from Cornell University in 2009.

Angelino C. G. Viceisza is full professor of economics and research director of the Center for Black Entrepreneurship at Spelman College, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. In 2023, he was president of the National Economic Association. Viceisza has also held visiting positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Duke University, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. His primary expertise is in behavioral and experimental economics, with applications in development, household finance, and entrepreneurship. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Experimental Economics, Small Business Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Review of Black Political Economy. This work has been supported by entities such as the Kauffman Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the World

Bank. Viceisza holds a Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University, an M.A. in economics from Georgia State University, an M.A. in economics from Boston University, an MBA in international business from Temple University, and a B.S. in accounting from University of Curaçao.