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Matthew Mars

Director of Knowledge Management and Entrepreneurship

Bio

Matthew Mars is the Director of Knowledge Management in the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship and liaison to the Office of Technology Transfer at The University of Arizona.

In addition to enhancing the experiential learning opportunities of entrepreneurship students who build venture projects around intellectual properties owned by The University of Arizona and third parties external to the university, Dr. Mars teaches the principles of entrepreneurship course at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr. Mars also serves as the alternative value mentor in the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program and in fields located and conducts research centered on the sociological dimensions of student and faculty entrepreneurship.

Research and Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Mars, M.M., & Lounsbury, M. (in press) Raging against or with the private marketplace? Logic hybridity and eco-entrepreneurship. Journal of Management Inquiry.

Hart, J. & Mars, M.M. (in press). Science educators: Two houses, but no home?” Innovative Higher Education, 34 (1).

Mars, M.M., & Garrison, S. (in press). Socially-oriented ventures and traditional entrepreneurship education models: A case review. Journal of Education for Business.

Mars, M.M,. Slaughter, S., & Rhoades, G. (2008). The state-sponsored student entrepreneur. The Journal of Higher Education, 79 (6), 638-670.

Mars, M.M. (2007). The diverse agendas of faculty within an institutionalized model of entrepreneurship education. Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 10, 43-62.

Mars, M.M., & Ginter, M.B. (2007). Connecting organizational environments with the instructional technology practices of community college faculty. Community College Review, 34 (4), 324-343.

Book Chapters and Monographs

Mars, M.M., Bercovitz, J., & James, B.E. (in press).“Toward Measuring the Social Value of University Innovations: A Review of the Literature. Gary D. Libecap (Ed.). Volume 19 Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth. London: JAI/Elsevier Press.

Mars, M.M., & Hoskinson, S. (in press). Intersecting entrepreneurship and law: An experiential
learning exchange. In Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Kelly G. Shaver, & Page G. West (Eds.). Handbook of University-Wide Entrepreneurship Education. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.

Mars, M.M., & Metcalfe, A.S. (2009). The entrepreneurial domains of US higher education. ASHE –Higher Education Report Series, 34 (5). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Work in Review/Progress

Mars, M.M. (under final revision). Student entrepreneurship and social change: A grassroots leadership perspective. Journal of Organizational Change Management. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Mars, M.M. (under final revision). Exploring the privatized dimension of entrepreneurship education and its link to the emergence of the college student entrepreneur. In Jennifer A. Sandlin and Peter McLaren (Eds.). Living and Learning in the Shadow of the “Shopocalypse”: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Consumption. Routledge: New York.

Mars, M.M., & Rhoades, G. (in progress). The socially-oriented student entrepreneur.
Rios-Aguilar, C. & Mars, M.M. (in progress). Entrepreneurship: Theoretical rigor or practical convenience.

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