Sarah Otner

Associate Professor

The Wharton School

Dr. Sarah M. G. Otner is Associate Professor of Innovation Management in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School. Dr. Otner’s research uses computational social science (underpinned by organization theory and sociology) to examine status, prizes, and networks. She is an expert on the fragrance industry and takes a keen interest in creative occupations within non-creative industries (and vice versa). Dr. Otner also studies how prizes function as innovation policy, and what a metascience lens can reveal about novelty and careers. She was an inaugural British Academy Innovation Fellow, and she serves on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly.