Jino Lu is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. His published and ongoing research examines the interplay between firm innovation strategy and the external environment, with a focus on how external technological and societal factors impact firms and their innovation processes. His primary research stream investigates how technological changes indirectly affect firms’ innovation progress by reshaping the competitive landscape for innovation resources, particularly knowledge workers. His secondary research stream explores how societal forces, such as political ideology, impact firms’ innovation processes by shaping inventors’ preferences for collaboration. His research methodology involves constructing large-scale, novel datasets and using a combination of causal inference econometrics and machine learning techniques. His projects have been recognized with awards including Best Conference Paper Finalist, Best Conference PhD Paper Awards, Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group Best Paper Award at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conferences, the Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant from the SMS Strategy Research Foundation, and Best Conference Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Industry Studies Association Annual Conference. He serves on the editorial review board of Organization Science, and as an outreach editor for Organization Science. Jino earned his PhD in Strategy from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.