Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship

Folta is on sabbatical in Lyon France for the 2007-2008 academic year and proud to be affiliated with EM-LYON as a Visiting Professor.  It is best to reach him by email.

foltat@purdue.edu

Purdue University / EM - Lyon
403 W. State St.
West Lafayette, IN  47907-2056
765-494-9252

Expertise:

• the determinants of new venture entry, performance, and survival;

• the management of strategy under uncertainty; and

• the management of technological innovation

Timothy B. Folta is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Purdue's Krannert Graduate School of Management.  He teaches undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and Ph.D. courses in  entrepreneurship and strategic management.  He is Director of BIOMEDSHIP, a program designed to study and provide leadership in biomedical entrepreneurship and innovation. 

The medical device and biotechnology industries have been the focus of much of this research.  His work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Business Venturing, Managerial and Decision Economics, Strategic Management Journal, and in a number of books.  Folta has received two "Best Paper" Awards in the Academy of Management:  Business Policy and Strategy Division (1994), and Entrepreneurship Division (1992).  He is on the Editorial Boards for the Strategic Management Journal, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and the Journal of Business Venturing, and has served the broader academic community in several capacities, including as a member of the the Executive Committee for the BPS Division (2003-2005), the Chair for the BPS Doctoral Consortium in 2004 & 2005, and past member of the Research Committee for the BPS Division. 

Folta has consulted with a number of firms and institutions.  In addition to teaching and doing research, he enjoys basketball, running, weightlifting, skiing, hiking, camping, traveling, and embarrassing his four children.