Teaching
Three Stanford courses, a long-running ITRI partnership, and a 200,000-student MOOC story that turned into a company.
Current courses
Technology Entrepreneurship — Stanford E145
Stanford Engineering · taught since 2009
The flagship Stanford technology entrepreneurship course. Project-based introduction to the discipline of building technology ventures — opportunity identification, customer development, team formation, and the institutional context around startups.
The online version, recorded for free between 2013 and 2018, reached more than 200,000 students worldwide and seeded the company that later became NovoEd, acquired by Devonshire Investors / Fidelity.
Entrepreneurship Without Borders — MS&E 272
Stanford MS&E · co-taught with Vimbayi Kajese
Cross-border, cross-institutional view of entrepreneurship. How different countries' institutional environments — capital markets, IP regimes, labor mobility, government industrial policy — shape who can build a high-growth technology venture, and what they actually build.
Causal Inference for Entrepreneurship Research — MS&E 379
Stanford MS&E · PhD-level
Doctoral seminar on quasi-experimental methods for empirical entrepreneurship and strategy research — difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, synthetic control, and the growing toolkit of LLM-based methods for policy and regulatory corpora.
International & executive programs
ITRI–Stanford Platform — Advancing Technology Ventures Program
Academic Director · 2013–present
Twelve-week program developed in partnership with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the Department of Industrial Technology (DOIT), and the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). Mentors deep-tech startup teams on commercial development and global market entry.
Stanford BOSP Shenzhen Global Seminar
Faculty Director · August 2026
Stanford Bing Overseas Studies Program seminar based at InnoX Academy in Shenzhen, examining China's innovation ecosystem from inside one of its most active corridors.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong — Faculty in Residence
Aug–Dec 2023 · via Stanford BOSP
Semester in residence at CUHK through Stanford's Bing Overseas Studies Program.
Mentorship & student programs
BASES — Stanford's largest entrepreneurship student organization
Faculty Advisor
Faculty advisor to BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students), which runs Stanford's flagship undergraduate entrepreneurship competitions, mentorship programs, and the student-run E-Bootcamp.
PhD advising
I advise PhD students in MS&E whose work intersects entrepreneurship, institutional design, industrial policy, AI's effects on innovation, or the global political economy of technology. For prospective applicants →
Undergraduate research
I hire undergraduate research assistants primarily through the MS&E REU program, the King Center on Global Development, and the Doerr School Sustainability Accelerator (EcoRamp). Former RAs and lab alumni →
Teaching honors
- Stanford Teagle Fellow in Liberal Education (2022)
- Undergraduate Teaching Award, Stanford MS&E (2017)
- Richard Schulze Inaugural Distinguished Professorship Award (2015)
Talks about teaching, learning at scale, and the STVP pedagogical model are on the
Talks & Media page. Curated course readings are on the
Reading list.