{"id":18420,"date":"2025-09-05T00:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profiles\/vinit-nijhawan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:59:01","slug":"vinit-nijhawan","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profiles\/vinit-nijhawan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinit Nijhawan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull profile__standard-wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns profile__columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b2e659ba wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile__left-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-986eed52 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"profile__image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vinit Nijhawan\" style=\"object-fit:contain\" class=\"wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/questromapps.bu.edu\/images\/facstaff\/NijhawanVinit.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<aside class=\"profile__contact profile__contact--api wp-block-amp-profile-contact\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n  <h5>Contact<\/h5>\n  <div class=\"profile__contact-row\">\n          <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--phone\">\n        <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n        Phone\n      <\/h6>\n      <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"telephone\">\n        617-353-0606      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n              <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--email\">\n        <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n        Email\n      <\/h6>\n      <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\">\n        <a href=\"mailto:vinit@bu.edu\" itemprop=\"email\">\n          vinit@bu.edu        <\/a>\n      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"profile__contact-buttons\">\n                    <div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary-button\">\n          <a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/otd\" itemprop=\"url\">\n            Visit Website\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"profile__contact-row\">\n\n              <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--office\">\n          <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n          Office\n        <\/h6>\n        <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"workLocation\">\n          652        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--bu\">\n          <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px\">\n            Boston University <br \/>\n            Questrom School of Business\n          <\/h6>\n                        <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"address\">\n                Rafik B. Hariri Building <br \/>\n                595 Commonwealth Avenue <br \/>\n                Boston, MA 02215\n              <\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/aside><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile__right-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-986eed52 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__header-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0f22d0a1 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__header-content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Vinit Nijhawan<\/h2>\n<div class=\"alignfull wp-block-amp-profile-position\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-transform-uppercase has-p-2-font-size\" style=\"text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 600\">\n\t\t\tLecturer, Strategy and Innovation\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-amp-profile-bio\">\n\t<p><a name=\"OLE_LINK4\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK3\">Vinit teaches MBA courses on Entrepreneurship at BU Questrom School of Business, over 400 students have taken his courses. Vinit Nijhawan was Managing Director, Office of Technology Development at Boston University where he launched 8 venture-backed spinoffs and successfully executed a patent monetization program. &nbsp;Vinit has over 30 years experience building five startups: as CEO of three, five were acquired. Vinit was Venture Partner at Key Venture Partners and his one investment was acquired for $430M. Vinit is an advisor and board member to several technology startups and was a Mass High Tech All-Star in 2005. Vinit has participated in over&nbsp;240 panel discussions and paper presentations, and was a Board Member of Mass Ventures, an early stage, quasi-public Massachusetts venture capital firm, a co-founder of EdTech Accelerator\/Incubator LearnLaunch, President of Massachusetts Association of Technology Transfer Offices. Vinit is also on the non-profit boards of the National Academy of Inventors and VentureCafe. Vinit earned a B.A.Sc in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-amp-profile-data profile-data\">\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-block-amp-profile-publications\">\n\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">\n\tPublications\t<\/h5>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-row has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Nijhawan, V. (In Press). &#8220;MAXIMIZE COLLISIONS, MINIMIZE FRICTION: APPLYING PLATFORM STRATEGIES TO ACCELERATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COMMERCIALIZATION&#8221;, <i>Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors<\/i> (19.1)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Nijhawan, V., Clark, C., Blackwell, C. (2020). &#8220;The Innovation Impact of U.S. Universities&#8221;, <i>Bush Institute<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Nijhawan, V. (2017). &#8220;Maximize Collisions, Minimize FrictionSM: Applying Platform Strategies to Accelerate University Research Commercialization&#8221;, <i>Technology and Innovation<\/i>, <i>19<\/i> (1),  415-423<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">McDevitt, V., Mendez-Hinds, J., Winwood, D., Nijhawan, V., Sherer, T., Ritter, J., Sanberg, P. 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