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Craig Silvernagel

Craig Silvernagel

Title

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

Office Building

Harding Hall

Office

137

Mailing Address

Harding Hall 137
Economics-Box 2220
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Biography

Craig Silvernagel is an associate professor of entrepreneurship and innovation management. His experience in higher education includes roles as an academic program director and entrepreneurship department chair. His primary teaching interests include new venture creation, entrepreneurial finance and innovation. Craig’s scholarly activity focuses on intellectual property and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurship program development.

In addition to his work in higher education, Craig co-founded and operated his own venture (Ad Monkeys, Inc., a marketing and commercial art/production firm) for seven years prior to selling his interest. Craig grew up in a family business environment where his parents co-owned and operated a custom plastic injection-molding manufacturing firm in the Minneapolis, Minnesota metro area (Duo Plastics, Inc.) that employed around 100 people. Craig earned an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from the University of North Dakota.

Education

  • Ph.D. in teaching and learning | University of North Dakota | 2014
  • M.B.A. | University of North Dakota | 1995
  • B.B.A. in marketing | University of North Dakota | 1992

Academic Responsibilities

  • BADM 101: Survey of Business
  • ENTR 237: Entrepreneurship Development
  • ENTR 338: New Venture Creation
  • ENTR 410: Entrepreneurial Finance
  • ENTR 485: Entrepreneurial Studies Capstone
  • BADM 485: Business and Financial Decisions in a Global Economy
  • MGMT 788: Mater's research Problems/Projects
  • MGMT 792: Graduate Capstone

Committees and Professional Memberships

  • Member of Society for Effectual Entrepreneurship

Grants

  • McKillip, A., Cutler, K., Letcher, T., & Silvernagel, C. Living and Working in Space – Children’s Museum Traveling Exhibit Design. SD Space Grant Consortium, 2021.
  • McKillip, A., Cutler, K. Letcher, T., Lucchesi, R., Silvernagel, C. Rich Normality Design Collaborative. South Dakota Community Innovation Grant, Bush Foundation, 2018.
  • Silvernagel, C. & Mettler, C. NSF Pathways to Innovation, 2015.

Areas of Research

  • Entrepreneurship and intellectual property
  • Entrepreneurial finance
  • Entrepreneurship education

Publications

  1. Silvernagel, C. A., Olson, M. R., & Stupnisky, R. H. (2021). Mine, yours, or ours? Perceptions of student-created intellectual property ownership. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 4(3), 204-224. (First published August 16, 2019).
  2. Clement, T. & Silvernagel, C. (2019). A conceptual framework of entrepreneurial finance. Journal of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 2(4), 308-332.
  3. Silvernagel, C., Langelett, G. & Tande, B. (2018). The new intellectual property race: Run, walk, or sit it out? Entrepreneur perceptions of the America Invents Act. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 7(2), 106-116.
  4. Clement, T., LeMire, S., & Silvernagel, C. (2015). The bias in favor of venture capital finance in US entrepreneurial education: At the expense of trade credit. Journal of Education for Business, 5, 233-240.

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