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Rosanna

Garcia

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  • Expert, ESO Staff

Rosanna Garcia is the Paul R. Beswick Endowed Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in WPI’s Business School. Dr. Garcia has a PhD in marketing from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Business at Michigan State University. She previously held associate professor positions at North Carolina State University and Northeastern University. Her research on entrepreneurism, innovation, and consumer behavior has been published in peer-reviewed journals; she is the author of the textbook Creating & Marketing New Products and Services. She co-founded Vijilent Inc., a data science company that serves the legal industry.

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Professor of entrepreneurship at WPI; I encourage university-based startups to be their very best using my own legal tech company as a model of can-do!

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