Robert McNamee

In his dual roles as academic director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute and assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Management, Dr. McNamee is responsible for managing and developing entrepreneurship- and innovation-focused programs for the Fox School of Business and Temple University. Dr. McNamee’s research focus is in the areas of knowledge exchange, creativity, innovation and organizational learning. In order to gather data and enhance the impact of this research, Dr. McNamee partners with the Industrial Research Institute and has co-founded a number of research-on-research working groups over the last several years to study knowledge networks, collaboration and enterprise social computing as drivers of innovation and R&D productivity.

Dr. McNamee’s research has been published in both top-tier scholarly journals (such as Organization Science and Research Policy) and practitioner-oriented journals (such as Research Technology Management). His solo-authored paper on cross-cultural cognitive differences in the evaluation of creative ideas was nominated for the prestigious Temple/AIB Best Paper Award for the Academy of International Business in 2010. Previous to entering academia, Dr. McNamee worked for nearly 10 years as a systems integrator, technical sales manager and strategic marketing director in the knowledge management industry.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark (2005 — 2012)
• Bachelors of Science Virginia Tech (1991 — 1996)

Companies

• Managing Director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute Temple University (2014)
• Assistant Professor Temple University (2011)
• Academic Director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute Temple University (2011 — 2014)
• Researcher / Lecturer Rutgers Business School (2005 — 2011)
• Director of Government Sales & Marketing Lason (1999 — 2003)
• Mid-Atlantic Sales Manager / Senior Technical Analyst PowerScan (1997 — 1999)
• Systems Analyst / Manager, Systems Integration Group Graphic Impressions-IMS (1996 — 1997)