Dr. A. Giga
Dr. A. Giga
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Aleksandar Giga teaches entrepreneurial finance and technology startup development. His work focuses on how to finance innovation and technology startups in spite of technical risks and lengthy product development. In his research, he assessed the impact of major US innovation policy programs and their capacity to advance technologies. In addition, he studied early-stage corporate strategy and its ability to attract investments as well as investment decision making. He is also interested in university technology transfer and academic spin-outs. Before TU Delft, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Office of Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Viterbi School of Engineering (University of Southern California), where he resided in a startup incubator and observed initiatives and programs that help students build and spin-out companies. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Economics (with honors) from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Publications
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2025
Aspirational utility and investment behavior
Andreas Aristidou / Aleksandar Giga / Suk Lee / Fernando Zapatero
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2023
Deterministic bibliometric disambiguation challenges in company names
Andrea Belz / Alexandra Graddy-Reed / F. N.U. Shweta / Aleksandar Giga / Shivesh Meenakshi Murali
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2022
Patentopia
A multi-stage patent extraction platform with disambiguation for certain semantic challenges
Andrea Belz / Alexandra Graddy-Reed / FNU Shweta / Aleksandar Giga / Shivesh Meenakshi Murali -
2021
Helping the Little Guy
the impact of government awards on small technology firms
Aleksandar Giga / Alexandra Graddy-Reed / Andrea Belz / Richard J. Terrile / Fernando Zapatero -
Courses 2024
- Finance for Entrepreneurs
- Finance for Entrepreneurs
- Idea to Start-up IT & AI
- Idea to Start-up IT & AI
- Idea to Start-up Energy &…
- Idea to Start-up Energy &…
- Idea to Start-up Energy &…
- Idea to Start-up Deep Tech
- Idea to Start-up Deep Tech
- Financing Technology…
- Financing Technology…
- Technology Venture…
- Technology Venture…
- Technology Venture…
- Start-up Challenge
- Start-up Challenge
- Start-up Challenge
- Start-up Challenge -…
- Start-up Challenge -…
Courses 2023
Ancillary activities
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2024-10-01 - 2026-10-01