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Sina K. Sokhan is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business, ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ. He received his Ph.D. in Strategy and Innovation from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Prior to joining Leeds, Sina worked with the Social Innovation on Drug Resistance (SIDR) program at Boston University as a postdoctoral associate, examining factors that affect innovation in the antibiotics sector. In this role, he collaborated with the Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Accelerator (CARB-X), which manages the world’s largest portfolio of early-stage antibiotics, vaccines, and diagnostics in development.

Sina’s research examines the process of innovation: what enables it, what constrains it, and why it sometimes fails. In particular, he focuses on how the recombination of knowledge elements makes innovation possible and how intellectual property rights over those components can either facilitate or impede this process. His work has been recognized by the Academy of Management, where he received the 2024 Distinguished Paper Award in the Strategy Division’s Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation Strategy track; by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, as a recipient of the 2018 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship; and by the Strategy Research Foundation, as a recipient of the 2016 Dissertation Research Grant. He was also awarded the 2018 Academy of Management’s Robert Litschert Award for the Best Student Paper submitted to the STR Division.

Sina holds a Master’s in Management Science from Sharif University of Technology and a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, both in Iran. At Leeds, he teaches courses in entrepreneurship and strategy, along with doctoral seminars on innovation.