Thomas Maximilian Klueter is a professor that holds a PhD in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from University of Pennsylvania, an MA from University of Pennsylvania and University College Dublin and a BA Science from Duale Hochschule Baden-Wuertemberg. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he was a financial analyst and project manager at IBM and JP Morgan. In those functions, he was involved in several worldwide projects in corporate finance and business development. Thomas’ research interests lie at the intersection of strategic entrepreneurship and innovation. He focuses on how established and emerging firms manage technological change and the strategies firms pursue to develop and commercialize new technologies. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy, and Strategy Science among others. He has, also, published several articles for practitioners in outlets such as Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.