Dr David Johnson is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at Durham University Business School, Durham University, and a Visiting Academic Fellow at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

David’s research is centred on academic entrepreneurship, life science commercialisation, technology transfer, and university-industry engagement activities. This research has led David to Visiting Fellow positions at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison (US) and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Moscow, Russia). His current work explores secrecy and disclosure in science commercialisation, and the role of language in persuading academics to engage with industry and in signalling firms’ open innovation and R&D priorities.

Prior to academia, David spent over a decade working within the pharmaceutical sector within Commercial and Strategy Consulting roles. He is a Director and Trustee of the Research and Development Management Association (RADMA) and has served on the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Perspectives.