Waverly Ding

Waverly Ding is Associate Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Dr. Ding earned her MBA and Ph.D. in business from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Smith School faculty, she was an assistant professor at Haas School of Business, the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Ding’s research focuses on high-tech entrepreneurship and strategy, knowledge transfer between universities and industrial firms, and the U.S. biotech industry. She has also conducted research relating to labor force in science and technology. Her work has been published in Science, American Journal of Sociology, Management Science, Journal of Industrial Economics, and Research Policy.

Primary Research Areas

• Entrepreneurship
• Technology strategy
• Innovation
• Labor productivity in science and technology

Honors and Awards

• General Research Fund, Project#11611021, “Balancing authoritarian innovation and accountability: An empirical study on the dual-track of patent intellectual property right protection in China (1986-2020)”. 763,831 HKD, 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024
• The Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge Grant, $91,985, 2019-2021
• Kenan Institute Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $10,000, 2018-2019
• Batten Fellowship, Batten Institute, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, $10,000, 2017-2018
• University of Maryland Research and Scholarship Award, Summer 2017, with Debra Shapiro, $9000
• NSF EAGER Grant #1550727 “Gender Differences in the Job Mobility and Earnings of U.S. Scientists and Engineers,” $50,000, 2015-2016.
• National Science Foundation of China Grant #71472010 “Venture Capital Industry in China”, 2014-2017, RMB 630,000
• Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, 2009-2011 (one of the five inaugural recipients selected among entrepreneurship researchers in the U.S.)
• UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Schwabacher Award, 2008-2009
• Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Mini-Grant, 2007-2009
• UC Berkeley Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2006
• Kauffman Foundation Emerging Scholars Initiative Dissertation Research Grant, 2002
• International Peace Scholarship, P.E.O. Foundation, 1998 & 2000

Professional Service

• National Science Foundation panelist
• Associate Editor (2015-current), Management Science
• Advisory Editor (2006-present), Research Policy