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Biography

Riitta Katila is the W.M. Keck Sr. Professor of Management Science & Engineering and Co-Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University. She is an expert on innovation, competition, and growth strategies of firms. Her research is in the intersection of technology strategy and organizational learning. She works on responsible innovation and purpose initiatives as co-director of PEAK .

Katila's recent work on competition and innovation has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and the Strategic Management Journal. Her most recent work, supported by the National Science Foundation, examines how firms create new products successfully, and how diversity drives innovation . Focusing on the robotics industry, she investigates how different search approaches, such as the exploitation of existing knowledge and the exploration for new knowledge, influence the kinds of new products that technology-intensive firms introduce. She served on the editorial review boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Organization, and the Strategic Management Journal. She is an associate editor at the Academy of Management Annals and at SEJ. Katila studied engineering economics and information systems as an undergraduate, earned a Ph.D. in technology strategy at UT Austin on a Fulbright Scholarship, and received a Doctorate in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in Finland. She has also worked in organizational consulting and telecommunications sectors. She is the Eugene Grant Teaching Award Recipient at Stanford

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