PAPERS

SELECT WORKING PAPERS Edgell, R. A. (2023). Organizing for social creativity: Comsat-Intelsat and the creative challenge of early outer space. College of Business Working Papers. SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Utica, NY. Edgell, R. A., & Olney, J. (2021). Grasping for the horizon: New views on institutionalization “stalls”. College of Business Working Papers. SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Utica, NY. Edgell, Robert A. (2014). A sociotechnological theory of discursive change and entrepreneurial capacity: Novelty and networks. Paper presented at the Academy of Management 2014, Philadelphia, PA. RECENT PUBLICATIONS (CLICK TITLE TO VIEW) Edgell, R. A., and Lee, D. (2023). Theorizing creative challenges: Why are social creativity and reimagined universities necessary for tackling society’s problems? Journal of Creativity, forthcoming. Edgell, R. A., and Olney, J. P. (2023). The sociotechnical imaginaries of contemporary commercial space: Explicating Homo Galacticus, Techno-Utopianism, and Capitalistkind. AIAA SciTech Forum, 2023(1), 1-24. Edgell, R. A., (2022). Grand challenges: The theoretics of discursive engagement, socio- temporal dilemmas, and impact. Academia Letters, Article 5164. Edgell, R. A., & Olney, J. P. (2021). Institutionalizing Outer Space: A sociotechnical explication of the Comsat- Intelsat actor-network. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 10228. Edgell, R. A., & Olney, J. P. (2021). Interplanetary institutionalization: Should humans become space faring? Academia Letters, Article 531. Berardino, L., Edgell, R. A., Fronmueller, M., Olney, J. P., Peterson, D., & Zeina, E. (2019). Design culture, immersion, and visuo-spatial learning: Re-envisioning training. Business Education Innovation Journal, 11(2), 110-118. Edgell, R. A.. Khasawneh, F., & Moustafellos, J. (2018). Reimagining entrepreneurship: Design culture exposure as a positive mediator for entrepreneurial capacity. Journal of Creativity and Business Innovation, 4, 60-77. Edgell, R. A., & Moustafellos, J. (2017). Toward an architectural theory of innovation: Explicating design, networks, and microprocesses. Journal of Creativity and Business Innovation, 3, 5-34. Edgell, Robert A. and Kimmich, P. (2015). A new view on innovation and language: Design culture, discursive practices, and metaphors. Journal of Creativity and Business Innovation, 1, 107-128. Yucel, I. and Edgell, Robert A. (2015). Conceptualizing factors of adoption for head mounted displays: Toward an integrated multi-perspective framework. Journal of Virtual World Research, 8(2), 1-10. Edgell, Robert A., Watson, D., Harasta, B., Pfyl, R., & Xu, Y. (2015). Explicating media, governance, and capitalism: A critical comparative analysis of historical cases. Corporate Board: Role, Duties and Composition, 11(1), 30-46. Edgell, Robert A. & Vogl, R. (2013). A theory of innovation: Benefit, harm, and legal regimes. Law, Innovation and Technology, 5(1), 21-53. Edgell, Robert A. (2013). Developing nations and sustainable entrepreneurial policy: Growing into novelty, growing out of poverty. Journal of Applied Business Research, 2(1), 20-36. Edgell, Robert A. & Vogl, R. (2011). A network view of human ingestion and health: Instrumental artificial intelligence. In B. Johnston, & M.-A. Williams (Eds.), Proceedings of the AAAI-11 (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Workshops: AI and Smarter Living. San Francisco, CA: AAAI Press.

SCHOLARLY

ACHIEVEMENTS

CREATIVE CHALLENGES AND ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL THEORY AND TRANSFORMATIONS DESIGN CULTURE AND SOCIAL CREATIVITY Dr. Edgell’s scholarship agenda expands upon his deep commitment to exploring the interdisciplinary intersections among economics, human behavior, the humanities, art, and design. He currently researches institutional transformations, design culture, social creativity, and entrepreneurial capacity development. His research further develops the sociotechnical theories and practices by which collectives assemble and mobilize to tackle society’s most pressing and intractable creative challenges, ranging from grand opportunities such as the commercialization of interplanetary space to wicked problems including intensifying climate change. His work contributes theory development and testing of the microprocesses and institutional arrangements that enable social creativity capacity as a collective means for conceptualizing and redressing challenges. He has collaborated with scholars from Stanford University, Temple University, and other institutions. He has published several scholarly research articles and presented multiple conference papers. Several research projects have been featured on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute. Recently he was a co-PI recipient, along with Dr. Daryl Lee, of a prestigious $100,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Humanities Connections grant (9.5% acceptance rate) for Reimagining Entrepreneurship: An Integrated Pathway for Creative and Ethical Venturing. In addition, NYSTEC recently donated $25,000 for supporting his entrepreneurial Initiatives and related research at the College of Business. In 2017, the SUNY System awarded Dr. Edgell and Dr. Lee a $40,000 Performance Improvement Funds (PIF) grant. He has earned the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) top 4% of Authors designation based on total new downloads.

DR. ROBERT A. EDGELL

PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT Dr. Edgell is currently a Professor of Technology Management and Co-Director of the Joint Center for Creativity, Design, and Venturing in the College of Business at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He has received recognition for his scholarship and teaching; he is a past recipient of the coveted Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Business School in Zurich and has delivered research papers and lectures at Stanford University’s Law School, the University of California San Francisco’s School of Dentistry, the California College of the Arts, and the University of St. Gallen. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business where he was named Outstanding Faculty. Also, he has taught at San Francisco State University’s College of Business. Dr. Edgell has served in various leadership capacities as a department chair, interim dean, and on several committees. He was a former board member of the Cyber Security Institute at Griffiss Institute and currently serves as a board member of Sculpture Space. He has presented his scholarship, reviewed papers, and chaired sessions at the Academy of Management, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Academy of Creativity, and the International Atlantic Economics Society among others. Dr. Edgell received his PhD in international multicultural management (magna cum laude) from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. He holds an MBA from Columbia University Business School in the City of New York and a five-year Bachelor of Architecture from Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Through Columbia's Chazen Institute of International Business, he studied at Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands. He is a registered Architect and has studied at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.

NPR Academic Minute Segments To listen, click on A SEGMENT TO GO TO NPR. ONCE THERE, scroll down and click on the audio bar play button “Listening to Outer Space” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 8/6/2021) “1962 and the First Commercial Space Firm” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 6/11/2021) “Humans and Outer Space” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 5/10/2021) “Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 9/7/2018) “Meaningful Transparency” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 8/8/2018) “Economic Vitality and the Arts” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 7/2/2018) “Visioneers and Venturers” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 6/6/2018) “Reimagining Entrepreneurship” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 5/9/2018) “Media and Governance” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 11/11/2016) “Innovation and Language” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 10/7/2016) Featured Academic Minute broadcast on National Public Radio’s Best of Our Knowledge (edition #1356, air date 09/15/2016) “Health & A.I.” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 9/2/2016) “Seeing 3D” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 8/2/2016) “Beneficial Innovation” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 1/12/2016) “Creativity and Community” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 6/26/2015) Featured Academic Minute broadcast on National Public Radio’s Best of Our Knowledge (edition #1281, air date 4/9/2015) “Architectural Technology Management” on National Public Radio’s Academic Minute (air date 3/13/2015)

“Das einzig Beständige ist die Veränderung.” - Heraklit von Ephesus, ca. 540 – 480 vC