Expertise

Asef's research lies at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and Geographic communities. He is interested in how organizations and innovation shape and are shaped by geographic communities, and in particular, how actors in under-resourced geographic communities overcome structural barriers to generate disproportionate innovative outcomes. He uses large-scale datasets and quantitative methods in his empirical work.

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Organizational Affiliations

STORM - Strategy and Organization, emlyon business school

InvEnt - Entrepreneurship and Innovation, emlyon business school

Education

Management
PhD, emlyon business school

Ongoing

Management
PhD, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III (France, Lyon)

Ongoing

Management
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), emlyon business school
Strategy
Master of Business Administration (MBA or MBA), University of Tehran (Iran, Tehran) - UT
Aerospace Engineering
Bachelor of Science (BS), Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)