Denise Dunlap

Research Interests

Global strategy, technological innovation, knowledge sourcing, emerging markets, and the bio-pharmaceutical and med-tech industries

Education

• BS: Business Administration & International Business, Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business - University Park, PA
  Supporting Area: Spanish
• MS: Business Administration & International Business, Southwest Minnesota State University, School of Business - Marshall, MN
  Supporting Area: Management
• Ph D: Strategic Management & International Business, Temple University, Fox School of Business - Philadelphia, PA
  Supporting Area: Human Resource Management

Biography

Denise R. Dunlap is an Associate Professor of global strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship at the Manning School of Business. She received a PhD from the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to joining UMASS Lowell, she taught at Northeastern University, Temple University (Philadelphia & Japan), and Widener University in undergraduate, MBA and EMBA programs.

Her research focuses on how global knowledge sourcing strategies matter for innovation. She is most well-known for her research on breakthrough innovations and those that improve universal health within the global, bio-pharmaceutical and med-tech industries

She is the Director of the Biotech East program for Ph.D. and post-doctorates in life sciences, which is a partnership between UMASS Lowell, the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of the Claremont Colleges. She is on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Medical Development Center (M2D2). She also serves on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of International Business Studies.

She is a business PI on two NIH grants: the Center of Advancing Point of Care Technologies (CAPCaT) and Center for Accelerating Practices to End Suicide (CAPES). CAPCaT and CAPES are interdisciplinary collaborations across the UMASS system including UMASS Chan Medical School to advance innovative technologies for patients with chronic diseases. She is also a business co-PI on the interdisciplinary NIH grant: UMASS Lowell LIFT (Lowell Innovative Fellows Training) Program.

She recently served as the business Co-PI for the NIH funded Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative to aid in the Covid-19 crisis. She also served as a Vice Chair for the Academy of International Business US Northeast board and was a Fellow for the Deshpande Foundation. Her industry experience includes working for Fortune 500 firms like Waste Management.

Her work has been presented at well-respected academic conferences and international audiences such as the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development. Her research has been published in both business and scientific journals in the Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Management, Research Policy, among other journals.

Selected Awards and Honors

• 2024 Dean's Faculty External Engagement Award (2024) - UMASS Lowell - Manning School of Business
• Outstanding Service Contribution & Recognition (2017-2024), Chair of Scholarship & Engagement Committee (2024) - Academy of Management, International Management Division
• Teaching Excellence Award Winner (2023) - UMass Lowell - Manning School of Business
• Top Expenditures - Most by College (2023), Scholarship/Research - UMASS Lowell
• Top 3 Faculty in College with Highest Number of Research Expenditures (2022), Scholarship/Research - UMASS Lowell
• Total expenditures – Top Three in College (2021), Scholarship/Research - UMASS Lowell
• Top 3 Faculty in College with Highest Number of Research Expenditures (2020), Scholarship/Research - UMASS Lowell
• Book Authorship in Calendar Year (2019), Scholarship/Research - UMASS Lowell
• Top 2 Faculty in Your College with the Highest Number of Research Expenditures (2019), Scholarship/Research - UMASS Lowell
• Faculty Book Authorship Award (2018), Scholarship/Research - UMASS Lowell
• Deshpande Faculty Fellow (2017), Service, University - UMASS Lowell
• Teacher Appreciation (2016), Teaching - Northeastern University
• Teacher Appreciation (2015), Teaching - Northeastern University’
• Best Paper Award (2014), Scholarship/Research - Academy of International Business Conference-NE
• Best Reviewer Award (2014), Service, Professional - Academy of International Business Conference
• Finalist for Best Emerging Market Paper (2014), Scholarship/Research - Academy of International Business Conference
• Research Award (2014), Scholarship/Research - Northeastern University
• Teacher Appreciation (2014), Teaching - Northeastern University’
• Best Paper Award (2011), Scholarship/Research - AIB-NE
• World Investment Report Contribution Honor (2011), Scholarship/Research - UNCTAD
• Best Reviewer Award (2010), Service, Professional - Academy of Management
• Finalist for Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award (2006), Scholarship/Research - EIBA

Selected Publications

• Dunlap, D., Santos, R., Latham, S.F. (2024). A Window of Opportunity: Radical Versus Repurposing Innovation Under Conditions of Environmental Uncertainty and Crisis. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71 6540-6552, (online version published 2023).
• Lilly, C., Soni, A., Dunlap, D., Hafer, N., Picard, M., Buchholz, B.O., McManus, D.D. (2024). Advancing Point of Care Testing by Application of Machine Learning Techniques and Artificial Intelligence. CHEST.
• Howard-Wilson, S., Wang, Z., Orwig, T., Dunlap, D., Hafer, N., Buchholz, B.O., Sutaria, S., McManus, D.D., Lilly, C. (2024). Point-of-Care Testing Preferences 2020-2022: Trends Over the Years. Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal.
• Orwig, T., Sutaria, S., Wang, Z., Howard-Wilson, S., Dunlap, D., Lilly, C., Buchholz, B.O., McManus, D.D., Hafer, N. (2024). Sampling of Healthcare Professionals’ Perspective on Point-of-Care Technologies from 2019-2021: a survey of benefits, concerns, and development. PLOS ONE.
• Godinez, J., Dunlap, D. (2024). A molestar a otra lado (2: pp. 220-223). UCL Press
• Lilly, C., Wang, Z., Dunlap, D., Kaye, J., Gohtard, S., Teebagy, S., Hafer, N., Rogers, E., Buchholz, B.O., McManus, D. (2022). 2021 Patient Preferences for Point of Care Testing Survey: More Acceptance and Less Concern. Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, jfac070.
• Dunlap, D., Santos, R., Lilly, C., Teebagy, S., Hafer, N., Buchholz, B.O., McManus, D. (2022). COVID-19: A gray swan’s impact on the adoption of novel medical technologies . Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 9(232) 1-9.
• Teebagy, S., WANG, Z., Dunlap, D., Saleeba, C., DiMezza, D., Crain, J., Lilly, C., Buchholz, B., McManus, D.D., Hafer, N. (2022). Understanding Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Point-of-Care Testing. Diagnostics, 12(2) 533.
• Santos, R., Dunlap, D. (2021). 51 Flavors: Regional resource configurations and foreign market entry in the U.S. biopharmaceutical industry. Sustainability, 3(17) 9763.
• Godinez, J., Dunlap, D. (2021). Frontier Markets and Sustainable Entrepreneurial Competences: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of a New Industry in Guatemala. Sustainability, 13(20) 11314.
• Dunlap, D., Ding, E., Abramo, K., Hafer, N., Buchholz, B., McManus, D.D. (2021). Point-of-care testing, your cardiologist, and affairs of the heart. Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal, 2(6) 331-335.
• Dunlap, D., Santos, R. (2021). Storming the beachhead: An examination of developed and emerging market multinational strategic location decisions in the U.S. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 14(7).
• Gibson, L., Fahey, .M., Hafer, N., Buchholz, B.O., Dunlap, D., Murphy, R., Achenbach, C., Stone, C., Cleeton, R., O'Neal, J., Frediani, J., Vos, M., Brand, O., Nayee, R., Wells, L., Lam, W., Martin, G., Manabe, Y., Robinson, M., Broach, J.B., Olgin, J., Barton, B., Lemon, S., Blodgett, A., McManus, D.D. (2021). The RADx Tech Clinical Studies Core: A Model for Academic Based Clinical Studies of SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Technology. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2 152-157.
• Hafer, N., Buchholz, B.O., Dunlap, D., Fournier, B., Latham, S.F., Picard, M., Tello, S.F., Gibson, L., Lilly, C., McManus, D. (2021). A multi-Institutional partnership catalyzing the commercialization of medical devices and biotechnology products. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 5(1) 1-6.
• Schachter, S., Dunlap, D., Lam, W., Manabe, Y., Martin, G., McFall, S. (2021). Future potential of Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx Tech) in molecular diagnostics. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, 21(3) 251-25.
• Lilly, C., Ensom, E., Teebagy, S., DiMezza, D., Dunlap, D., Hafer, N., McManus, D. (2020). Patient preferences for point of care testing. The Journal of Near-Patient Testing and Technology, 11(4) 112-115.
• Dunlap, D., Santos, R., McManus, D., Buchholz, B.O., Nate, H., Picard, M. (2020). New opportunities and cautionary insights about decentralizating and deglobalizing clinical trials during the great lockdown. AIB Insights, 20(3).
• Dunlap, D., Godinez, J. (2020). Chanchullo. UCL Press
• Ding, E., Ensom, E., Hafer, N., Buchholz, B., Picard, M., Dunlap, D., Rogers, E., Lawton, C., Koren, A., Lilly, C., Fitzgibbons, T., McManus, D. (2019). Point-of-care technologies in heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders from the Center for Advancing Point-of-Care Technologies. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 11 58-67.
• Dunlap, D. (2019). Jaan-Pechaan (1:97-100). UCL Press
• Marion, T., Friar, J., Dunlap, D. (2018). Startups and TTOs: Fostering entrepreneurship at a large research university (1: pp. 61-77). World Scientific Publishers Vol 1
• Libaers, D., Dunlap, D. (2018). The world scientific reference on innovation: University technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship. World Scientific Publishers Vol. 1
• Klueter, T., Monteiro, F., Dunlap, D. (2017). Standard vs. partnership-embedded licensing: Attention and the relationship between licensing and product innovations. Research Policy, 46(9) 1629-1643.
• Cyrino, A.B., Parente, R., Dunlap, D., de Góes, B.B. (2017). A critical assessment of Brazilian manufacturing competitiveness in foreign markets. Competitiveness Review, 27(3) 253-274.
• Dunlap, D., McDonough, III, E.F., Mudambi, R., Swift, T. (2016). Making Up Is Hard to Do: Knowledge Acquisition Strategies and the Nature of New Product Innovation. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 33(4) 472-491.
• Dunlap, D., Parente, R., Geleilate, J., Marion, T. (2016). Organizing for innovation ambidexterity in emerging markets: Taking advantage of supplier involvement and foreigness . Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 23(2) 175-190.
• Dunlap, D. (2015). Innovating through licensing (pp. 118-125). Edward Elgar Publishing
• Marion, T., Dunlap, D., Friar, J. (2015). Northeastern University: A study of technology transfer and the academic entrepreneur (pp. 245-279). University of Chicago Press
• Dunlap, D., Wesley, D. (2015). Private Equity in Angola: The Norfund Memorandum. IVEY Publishing
• Dunlap, D., Marion, T., Friar, J. (2014). The role of cross-national knowledge on organizational ambidexterity: A case of the global pharmaceutical industry. Management Learning, 45(4) 458-476.
• Puffer, S.M., McCarthy, D.J., Jaeger, A.M., Dunlap, D. (2013). The use of favors by emerging market managers: Facilitator or inhibitor of international expansion?. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 30(2) 327-349.
• McCarthy, D.J., Puffer, S.M., Dunlap, D., Jaeger, A. (2012). A Stakeholder Approach to the Ethicality of BRIC-firm Managers’ Use of Favors. Journal of Business Ethics, 109(1) 27-38.
• Marion, T., Dunlap, D., Friar, J. (2012). Instilling the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Your R&D Team: What Large Firms Can Learn from Successful Start-ups. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 59(2) 323-337.
• Marion, T.J., Dunlap, D., Friar, J.H. (2012). The university entrepreneur: a census and survey of attributes and outcomes. R&D Management, 42(5) 401-419.
• Lamin, A., Dunlap, D. (2011). Complex technological capabilities in emerging economy firms: The role of organizational relationships. Journal of International Management, 17(3) 211-228.
• Dunlap-Hinkler, D., Kotabe, M., Mudambi, R. (2010). A story of breakthrough versus incremental innovation: corporate entrepreneurship in the global pharmaceutical industry. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 4(2) 106-127.
• Kotabe, M., Dunlap-Hinkler, D., Parente, R., Mishra, H. (2007). Determinants of Cross-National Knowledge Transfer and Its Effect on Firm Innovation. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(2) 259-282.

Selected Presentations

• Strategic Search: Using Knowledge Spillovers from Vertical Partners for Competitive Advantage - Strategic Management Society, October 2023 - Toronto
• Crossing the Chasm: Unlocking the Next Global Frontier of Female Entrepreneurship - Academy of Management, August 2023 - Boston
• Innovation Drift: An Experiential Learning Perspective - Academy of Management, August 2023 - Boston
• The Effect of Past Failures on New Product Developments’ Efficiency - Strategic Management Society, September 2022 - London
• First Movers in a Pandemic: How Knowledge Expertise Impacted Global Biopharmaceutical Innovation - Academy of Management, August 2022 - Seattle, WA
• Innovation under crisis: Is knowledge breadth a liability? Insight from the COVID pandemic - Academy of Management, August 2021 - On-line
• A Unique Perspective on Multinational Location Decisions when Entering a Dominant Market: An Assessment of Emerging Market Firm Strategies - Academy of International Business, July 2021 - On-line
• Beyond the Classroom: Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships to Enhance Entrepreneurial Engagement, June 2021 - Lowell
• Battlements of Microbial Defense: How Policy Makers Incentivize Drugs that are Rarely Used?, June 2021 - Boston
• Moths to the flame: Examining foreign collocation patterns in the Bio-Pharmaceutical industry - Academy of Management, August 2020 - On-Line
• Storming the Beachhead of a Dominant Cluster - Academy of Management, August 2019 - Boston
• An Overview of Innovation in the Bio-Pharma Industry - MEI Research Series, April 2019 - Lowell
• Innovation in Emerging Economies - UMASS Lowell Faculty Symposium, November 2018
• Radical Innovation in Emerging Economies - Academy of Management, August 2018 - Chicago
• Laggards, leading imitators or leapfroggers: How are emerging economies innovating - Academy of International Business-NE, October 2017 - Philadelphia
• Managing the Complexities of Innovation Ambidexterity: The Role of Supplier Relationships - Academy of International Business Conference, August 2017 - Atlanta
• “Licensing and the Creation of Product Innovations: The Role of Bottom Up and Top Down Attention - Academy of Management Conference, 2016 - Anaheim
• Innovation ambidexterity and knowledge sources - Academy of Management, 2015 - Vancouver
• Knowledge for money: The relationship between in-licensing and breakthrough innovations - Academy of Management Conference, 2015 - Vancouver
• “Laggards, leading imitators or leadfroggers: How are emerging economies innovating?” - Strategic Management Society Conference, 2015 - Denver
• Managing innovation ambidexterity in emerging economies: An empirical examination of the automotive industry - Academy of International Business Conference, 2014 - Vancouver
• Managing innovation ambidexterity in emerging economies: An empirical examination of the automotive industry - Academy of International Business Conference-NE, 2014 - Providence
• “No strings attached: Examining the relationship between loosely coupled research partnership and innovative performance - Academy of Management Conference, 2014 - Philadelphia
• Made, not born: Commercialization is a key element in creating a blockbuster drug - Academy of International Business Conference, 2013 - Istanbul
• The role of cross-National knowledge on organizational ambidexterit - NEU’s Innovation Networks Conference, 2013 - Boston
• Breakthrough innovation in the global pharmaceutical industry: Knowledge stocks, scientific success and market success - NEU’s Research Showcase, 2013 - Boston
• The role of cross-national knowledge on organizational ambidexterity - NEU’s RISE: Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo, 2013 - Boston
• Are emerging markets breaking through?: An analysis of Brazilian firms in the auto industry - Strategic Management Society Conference, 2013 - Atlanta
• External knowledge sourcing in the pharmaceutical industry? - Academy of International Business Conference, 2012 - Washington, D.C
• “How global is external knowledge sourcing in the pharmaceutical industry and does it matter? - Academy of International Business Conference, 2012 - Washington, D.C
• Cross-national knowledge acquisition: The role it plays in new product development in the global pharmaceutical industry - AIB Conference, 2012 - Washington, D.C
• Breakthrough innovation, knowledge stocks and market success - Strategic Management Society, 2012 - Prague
• “Ambidexterity in cross-border joint venture partnerships and its performance implication - Academy of Management Conference, 2011 - San Antonio
• “The university entrepreneur: A census and survey of attributes and outcomes - Academy of Management Conference, 2011 - San Antonio
• Technology agility on business processes and organizational agilities - IEEE Conference, 2011 - San Jose
• Factors influencing ambidexterity in emerging Economy family firms: A study of Brazilian firms - Strategic Management Society Conference, 2011 - Rio de Janeiro
• Learning and participating: The dual role of exploratory collaborations - Strategic Management Society Conference, 2011 - Miami
• Surviving the Ph.D. program: Lessons learned - Temple University, 2011 - Philadelphia
• Breakthrough trends in the global pharmaceutical industry: An emerging market perspective - UNCTAD Conference , 2011 - Geneva
• Innovation in the family enterprise: Characteristics affecting exploration versus exploitation decisions - Academy of International Business Conference, 2010 - Rio de Janeiro
• Managerial responses to achieving competitiveness in local vs. global contexts - Academy of International Business Conference, 2010 - Rio de Janeiro
• Corporate entrepreneurship in the global auto industry: A supply chain and learning perspective - Academy of Management Conference,, 2010 - Montreal
• "A stakeholder Approach to the Ethicality of BRIC firm Managers’ Use of Favors - Bergamo Wharton Joint Conference, 2010 - Bergamo
• Breakthrough innovation in the global pharmaceutical industry: Innovation, knowledge stocks and market success - Copenhagen Business School Research Series, 2010 - Denmark
• Business processes, technology and organizational agilities: A dynamic capability framework - European International Business Academy Conference, 2010 - Porto
• New multinationals in emerging markets: The effect of business group affiliation on technological capabilities in the software industry in India - IB Research Forum for Journal of International Management Conference, 2010 - Philadelphia
• The performance consequences of ambidexterity in domestic and international journal ventures - IB Research Forum for Journal of International Management Conference, 2010 - Philadelphia
• What Is A Scholar to Do?: The use (or misuse) of patents - Interdisciplinary Roundtable at Northeastern University’s Law & Business School, 2010 - Boston
• The role of cross-national knowledge flow on learning and innovation - International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OKLC), 2010 - Boston
• Mentoring: It’s a two-way street, 2010 - Rio de Janeiro
• Instilling the entrepreneurial spirit in your R&D team - NEU’s Research Expo, 2010 - Boston
• The use of favors by BRIC managers: ethical or not - NEU’s Symposium on Managing Favors in a Global Economy, 2010 - Boston
• Corporate entrepreneurship in the global auto industry: A supply chain and learning perspective - Strategic Management Society Conferenc, 2010 - Rome
• Breakthrough trends in the global pharmaceutical industry: An emerging market perspective - UNCTAD Conference , 2010 - Geneva
• Entrepreneurship in emerging markets: The case of the Brazilian automotive industry - Academy of International Business Conference, 2009 - San Diego
• Theories of family enterprise conference: Commentary on organizational ambidexterity - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Conference, 2009 - Boston
• The global entrepreneur: The role of internal knowledge sharing - Special Conference for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Conference, York University, 2009 - Toronto
• “Performance implications from technological agility and business processes: The case of the Brazilian automotive industry - Academy of International Business Conference, 2008 - Milan
• Technology agility on organizational agilities and firm performance - Academy of Management Conference, 2008 - Anaheim
• Technology agility: Empirical evidence from Brazilian automotive industry - Academy of International Business, 2007 - Indianapolis
• The determinants of corporate innovativeness: A cross-national knowledge perspective - European International Business Academy Conference, 2006 - Fribourg

Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research

• 2023-2028 The Center for Advancing Point of Care for Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Diseases (2023), Sponsored Research - NIH-UMASS Medical
  Dunlap, D. (Principal)
• 2023-2028 UMass Lowell Innovative Fellows Training (LIFT) (2023), Sponsored Research - NIH-UMASS Lowell
  Dunlap, D. (Co-Principal)
• 2023-2028 The Center for Accelerating Practices to End Suicide through Technology Translation (2023), Sponsored Research - NIH-UMASS Medical
  Dunlap, D. (Principal)
• 2023 Smart Infant Activity Shirt” (SIAS): Combatting Childhood Overweight and Obesity from Infancy (2023), Sponsored Research - Internal Interdisciplinary Seed Award
  Dunlap, D., Koren, A.
• 2018-2023 The Center for Advancing Point of Care for Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Diseases (2018), Sponsored Research - NIH-UMASS Medical
  Dunlap, D. (Principal)
• 2020-2022 Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Initiative for COVID-19 (2020), Sponsored Research - NIH-UMASS Medical
  Dunlap, D. (Co-Principal)
• Fighting the Childhood Obesity Epidemic: The Application of Innovative Solutions (2019), Sponsored Research - Interdisciplinary Award
  Dunlap, D., Koren, A., Kahn-Dangelo, L.
• Center for Emerging Markets research grant (2011), Grant - Northeastern University
  Dunlap, D.
• Institute of Global & Innovation Management research grant (2010), Grant - Northeastern University
  Dunlap, D.
• World Investment Report research grant (2010), Sponsored Research - UNCTAD
  Dunlap, D.
• Research grant (2009), Grant - Northeastern University
  Dunlap, D.