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Brent Goldfarb, PhD

Brent Goldfarb, PhD

University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Dean’s Professor of Entrepreneurship | Academic Director, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

Expertise: Science PolicyScience PolicyTechnological EntrepreneurshipTechnological Entrepreneurship

Dr. Brent Goldfarb is an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Goldfarb's research focuses on how the production and exchange of technology differs from more traditional economic goods, with a focus on the implications on the role of startups in the economy. He focuses on such questions as how do markets and employer policies affect incentives to discover new commercially valuable technologies and when is it best to commercialize them through new technology-based firms? Why do radical technologies appear to be the domain of startups? And how big was the dot.com boom? Copies of Dr. Goldfarb's publications and working papers have been downloaded over 1200 times.




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UMD Smith Names Michael Hoffmeyer as Dingman Center Managing Director

Michael Hoffmeyer will lead a center integral to the University of Maryland鈥檚 high ranking for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies.
24-May-2023 01:05:52 PM EDT

The Most Successful Startups Mix Friendships and Business to Build Teams, Research Finds

New research in the Academy of Management Journal shows startups can foster team dynamics, fundraising and productivity, and maximize profit earnings through a hybrid formation strategy wherein founders both like each other due to shared values/experiences and have proper complementary skills/capabilities.
20-Sep-2021 01:00:29 PM EDT

Maryland Smith-Led Research Draws Inaugural Panmure House Prize

Maryland Smith鈥檚 Rachelle Sampson is the inaugural recipient of The Panmure House Prize, an annual award of $75,000 to emerging leaders in academia who are planning to produce outstanding research on the long-term funding of innovation.
19-Aug-2021 06:05:47 PM EDT

Maryland Smith Experts Weigh Bitcoin鈥檚 Viability as a Currency and Asset

With Bitcoin鈥檚 recent hot streak, finance expert David Kass and 鈥淏ubbles and Crashes鈥� co-author Brent Goldfarb, both professors at Maryland Smith, share their views on the cryptocurrency鈥檚 viability as a market asset and currency for trade.
04-Mar-2021 02:10:46 PM EST

Bubbles and Crashes Author: Investors Can Learn from Luckin Coffee Plunge

Successful entrepreneurs are good storytellers. But sometimes the story is more fiction than nonfiction. Maryland Smith expert Brent Goldfarb explains the evolution and implications of Luckin Coffee鈥檚 fictionalized narrative.
03-Apr-2020 08:05:02 PM EDT

"It is extraordinarily difficult to change these sorts of conventions without some sort of government coercion, and even then, it is hard," Goldfarb said. "Just as the United States was unable to shift to the metric system, I see little chance that we'd change all our calendars, computer programs, and intuitive thinking to get rid of leap years and have a constant calendar."

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"This is a win for Uber," said Brent Goldfarb, academic director at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, College Park. "Putting in front of them an extra regulatory hoop or two to jump through isn't going to restrain them much. The basic model is approved."

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"Just as the United States was unable to shift to the metric system, I see little chance that we'd all change our calendars, computer programs and intuitive thinking to get rid of leap years and have a constant calendar," he told the paper.

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