Edward Baer Roberts (November 18, 1935 – February 27, 2024) was an American academic who was faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
[2] Roberts, the world’s leading authority on entrepreneurship, wrote "Entrepreneurs in High Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond" on high-tech business creation and growth.
Roberts earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering, an MBA, and the world’s first Ph.D. in System Dynamics, all from MIT.
He has authored over 150 articles and 11 books, most recently Innovation: Driving Product, Process and Market Change.
Roberts was a co-founder, director, adviser, mentor, and angel investor in many emerging companies.