Pankaj Patel, PhD

Frank J. and Jane E. Ryan Endowed Chair in Strategy and Innovation; Professor of Management & Operations | Villanova School of Business Villanova University

  • Villanova PA

Pankaj Patel, PhD, is a leading expert on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Contact

Villanova University

View more experts managed by Villanova University

Media

Areas of Expertise

Automation
Innovation & Creativity
New Ventures
Technology
Management
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Business

Biography

Dr. Patel is a leading source on issues related to innovation, entrepreneurship and health and self-employment. Dr. Patel mentors Villanova’s rising entrepreneurs and leaders, and actively promotes the connection of theory to practice through research, leadership and community outreach. His research has been featured on CNBC.

Education

University of Louisville

phD

University of Louisville

MA

Spalding University

BA

Select Media Appearances

Your Employees May Be Sickened By the Thought of Losing Their Jobs to Automation

Small Business Trends  online

2018-05-13

County-level Job Automation Risk and Health: Evidence from the United States is the resulting report from the study conducted by Srikant Devaraj, a research assistant professor with Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research; Michael Hicks, Center for Business and Economic Research director; Emily J. Wornell, a research assistant professor with Ball State’s Indiana Communities Institute; and Pankaj C. Patel with Villanova University.

View More

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

The Hill  online

2018-04-08

Does the risk of automation-related job losses effect more than labor market outcomes?

That question is central to a new study on automation-related employment risk and health outcomes at the county level. In this work, colleagues at Villanova and Ball State Universities investigated whether the higher prevalence of workers exposed to automation-risk resulted in different health-care outcomes.

View More

Study: Fear of Robots Taking Their Jobs Is Making Workers Sick

Inc.  online

2018-03-20

Hicks conducted the study with fellow Ball State researchers Srikant Devaraj and Emily Wornell, as well as Villanova University's Pankaj Patel. The researchers used county-level data, individual data from the General Social Survey, and two other surveys.

The study found that with every 10 percentage-point increase in automation risk, employees' general health was 2.38 percent worse--and their mental health 0.6 percent worse.

View More

Show All +

Select Academic Articles

Struggling with social capital: Pakistani women micro entrepreneurs’ challenges in acquiring resources

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Marta Lindvert, Pankaj C. Patel & Joakim Wincent

2017

View more

Instant gratification: temporal discounting and self-employment

Small Business Economics

Wolfe, M.T., Patel, P.C.

2017

View more

Two are better than one: Cortisol as a contingency in the association between epinephrine and self-employment

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Marcus T.Wolfe, Pankaj C.Patel

2017

View more

Show All +