Innovation, Entrepreneurship
and Technology
Working at the intersection of policy, entrepreneurship, and community engagement to design innovative solutions to public challenges, from impact investing to industrial policy to AI.
Overview
Faculty combine policy, entrepreneurship, and emerging technology to expand the toolkit available for solving complex public problems. Many of today’s most pressing challenges, in climate, development, inequality, and security, require skills beyond traditional regulation. This area examines how social entrepreneurship, innovative finance, market design, and technology policy can unlock new solutions, and how government can work alongside innovators and civil society to implement them effectively at scale.
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Christine MahoneyProfessor of Public Policy and PoliticsChristine Mahoney is a professor of public policy and politics and chief innovation officer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She studies social justice advocacy, activism and direct action through social entrepreneurship.
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Noah MyungAssociate Professor of Public Policy and EconomicsNoah Myung is an associate professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is an experimental and behavioral economist with research interests in game theory, organizational economics, and financial economics. Myung’s current research deals with equilibrium selection in coordination games as well as information sharing between competitors
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Allan StamUniversity Professor of Public Policy and PoliticsAllan C. Stam is a University Professor of public policy and politics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. His research focuses on the dynamics of armed conflict between and within states. Stam has also worked on several survey-based projects including surveys conducted in Russia, Rwanda, India and the United States.
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Eileen ChouAssociate Dean for Academic AffairsEileen Chou, associate dean for academic affairs and Batten Family Bicentennial Teacher-Scholar Leadership Professor of Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, researches the organizational, social, and psychological forces that shape individual and group behavior in organizational settings.
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Andrew S. PennockAssociate Professor of Public PolicyAndy Pennock is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He serves UVA as the faculty director of Batten’s MPP orientation program, on Batten’s curriculum committee, and as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Pennock’s academic research examines public policy in the global economy as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning
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Paul S. MartinAssociate Professor of Public PolicyPaul Martin is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Martin studies how and when political elites respond to the preferences of ordinary people; political participation and advocacy, how and when citizens become involved in the policy process; on the role of mass media; and on the origins and consequences of social capital .
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Benjamin CastlemanProfessor of Public Policy and EducationBen Castleman is a professor of public policy and education at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on policies and strategies to improve postsecondary educational and workforce outcomes for individuals from lower-income communities. Castleman conducts this research through collaborative research-policy partnerships with public agencies and organizations at the local, state, and federal levels.