Southern Illinois University

Faculty Member, Management

Assistant Professor

College of Business

About

Jonathon Mote is an Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Business at Southern Illinois University.  His research interests are primarily focused on the interrelationship between organizational environments and networks of science and innovation. In addition to past funding from the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Industry Canada, he is currently the Co-PI on an NSF funded project looking at the determinants of innovation in basic and applied research in federally-funded national laboratories.  From 2003 to 2009, Jonathon was an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland and remains affiliated with the Center for Innovation at UMD.

Jonathon completed his doctorate in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation focused on the growth of early-stage venture capital in Philadelphia and the resulting changes in the culture and networks of local investors and companies.  Prior to attending Penn, Jonathon was a program associate at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where he was responsible for a diverse portfolio of grants totaling approximately $10 million. After leaving the Trusts, he worked with two large-scale initiatives that focused on the redevelopment of low-income neighborhoods in North Philadelphia. As part of this latter work, he planned and implemented a $500,000 demonstration program on facade improvements in low-income neighborhoods.

Jonathon received his masters in economics and history from the New School and his bachelors in economics and history from the University of Iowa.

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