Associate Professor of Strategic ManagementSaïd Business School
Marc Ventresca is an academic researcher and teacher, on faculty at Oxford Said Business School / Wolfson College since 2004, with focus on innovation, infrastructure, and impact. Before that, on faculty at Kellogg/Northwestern, Naval Postgraduate School, U of Illinois, U of California and with visiting posts at Copenhagen Business School and Mediterranean Business School (Tunis, Tunisia). His work focuses on early moments in markets as well as market-building initiatives in several sectors, in the context of 'unsettled spaces', that is economic and cultural world reshaped by emerging technologies, change in regulatory and governance regimes, and platform capabilities. Prior work is on entrepreneurial activity and social networks, on the rise of alternative financial markets and protocols, and social innovation in a range of complex contexts. He is PI for an Oxford initiative investigating dynamics of space commerce and governance. He has a long, varied affiliation w our Skoll Centre.