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Steven Klepper was the Arthur Arton Hammerschlag Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, where he spent over three decades in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences. He was a leading scholar in entrepreneurship, innovation, and industry evolution, with over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 10,000+ citations. His research focused on firm survival, market structure, technological change, and the historical development of industries like Silicon Valley and Detroit.
Education: Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University (1975).
Research Interests:
- Entrepreneurship and high-tech startups
- Spinoffs and firm entry strategies
- Industry clusters and regional economic development
- Technological innovation cycles and extinction
- Market structure dynamics and oligopoly evolution
Awards and Recognition:
- Swedish Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (2011)
- Honorary Ph.D. from Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany)
- Dietrich College Ryan Teaching Award
Contributions: Co-founded CMU’s SETChange Ph.D. program, designed the CCC Doctoral Conference, and mentored numerous students. His work emphasized historical case studies (e.g., automobile, semiconductor industries) to explain industrial evolution.
Labs/Teams: Key contributor to the Consortium for Competitiveness and Collaboration and the Social and Decision Sciences department at CMU.
