Cesar Bandera

Associate Professor, Martin Tuchman School of Management
I am an electrical engineer driven to entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in the mid-1980’s. At the New Jersey Institute of Technology, I hold the Leir Endowed Chair for Entrepreneurship and the title of NJIT Master Teacher. My research interests lie in entrepreneurship pedagogy, technology-driven business incubation, and mobile healthcare. At least once I have taught every NJIT course in entrepreneurship, and I mentor many of our student- and faculty-led ventures. I also practice what I preach, being a serial entrepreneur and currently the founding partner of an m-health company that serves CDC, NIH, EPA, and foreign ministries of health.

I received a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University at Buffalo, NY, with a concentration in biomimetic machine vision and AI. My work has yielded journal and conference publications and book chapters, four patents, the NASA Space Act award, New Jersey’s first Small Business Success Story designation by the National Institutes of Health, and two Small Business of the Year Nominations from the US Department of Defense. I work with an awesome team of Ph.D students in Business Data Science at the Martin Tuchman School of Management, I am National NSF I-Corps Instructor, Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, char of the AACSB Entrepreneurship and Innovation Affinity Group, Senior Member NAI and IEEE, and served on the board of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and as Director of the Academy of the International Council for Small Business.
Certification; Harvard Business School; Executive Development; 1996
Ph.D.; University at Buffalo; Systems Engineering; 1990
M.S.; University at Buffalo; Computer Engineering; 1985
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Leir Chair for Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor, May 2022 -
National Science Foundation
Innovation Corps Instructor, April 2020 -
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, July 2018 -
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, August 2012 - July 2018
2026 Senior Life Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2026 Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors
2025 NJIT Nexus of Excellence in Graduate Teaching, New Jersey Institute of Technology
2025 Excellence in Graduate Teaching, NJIT Martin Tuchman School of Management
2024 Excellence in Research, NJIT Martin Tuchman School of Management
2023 ART: Enhancements at NJIT to Transform Translational Impact ($6MM), National Science Foundation
by appointment
BDS 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MGMT 640 - INTRO TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP
BDS 725 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH I
MGMT 680 - ENTREPREN:STRAT NEW BUS
Entrepreneurship
technology start-up bootstrapping
healthcare technology
mobile health
biomimetics
signal processing
CS 113: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE 1
ECE 416: ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING PROJECT II
ENTR 210: INTRO TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ENTR 210: INTRODUCTION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ENTR 330: ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGY
ENTR 410: NEW VENTURE MANAGEMENT
ENTR 420: ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE
ENTR 420: FINANCING NEW VENTURE
ENTR 430: ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGY
ENTR 490: INDEPENDENT STUDIES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship education and pedagogy
Policies for business incubation
Mobile/Tele-health
Mobile and collaborative learning
Data visualization
"The Path to Comprehensiveness: An LLM-Enhanced Systematic Literature Review on the Innovation Mindset"
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"Experiential Education in Translational Research Through Engagement of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem"
IEEE, March, 2025.
"An Ecosystem for STEM Translational Research and Entrepreneurship"
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, February, 2025.
"Introduction to the HICSS-58 Minitrack on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice"
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2025.
"Not So Fast: Mapping the Learning Speed and Sophistication in GenAI"
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2025.
"Assessing and Visualizing the Entrepreneurial Mindset with Mind Mapping and Generative AI"
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2024.
"Predicting and Expanding Research Translation Outcomes in the NSF I-Corps: How Readiness and Intention Drive Translational Research"
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference, February, 2026.
"Advancing Research Translation through Social Capital in the NSF I-Corps"
National Science Foundation National Innovation Network Conference, August, 2025.
"Teaching Entrepreneurship with Societal Impact to Engineering Students"
American Society for Engineering Education, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2022.
"Entrepreneurship Education with Societal Significance: Protocols for Aiming Higher"
Northeast Decision Sciences Institute, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2022.
"Introduction to the Minitrack on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice"
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2022.
"Introduction to the Minitrack on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice"
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2021.
Yasser Farha, Cesar Bandera, Nesren Farhah. 2024. "Structural topic models for the automated measurement of entrepreneurial motivation among college students of different disciplines." Journal of the International Council for Small Business, pp. 1--13.
Cesar Bandera. 2022. "Teaching STEM Entrepreneurship with Societal Significance: Building on the Small Business Innovation Research Program." Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 406-422.
Pelin Ayranci, Cesar Bandera, Hai Nhat Phan, Derik Kenne, Ruoming Jin, Dong Li. 2022. "Distinguishing the Effect of Time Spent at Home During COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Urban and Suburban College Students Using Cell Phone Geolocation." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 12.
Hai Nhat Phan, Cesar Bandera. 2022. "Distinguishing the Effect of Time Spent at Home During COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Urban and Suburban College Students Using Cell Phone Geolocation." .
Xi Zhang , Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, Raja Roy, Cesar Bandera. 2021. "The impact of entrepreneurs' full-time versus hybrid employment and social connections on new venture survival: a USA–India comparison." South Asian Journal of Business Studies.
Cesar Bandera, Susana Santos, Eric Liguori. 2020. "The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship Education: A Delphi Study on Dangers and Unintended Consequences." Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, vol. 4, no. 4.
Cesar Bandera, Katia Passerini. "What Does My Customer Really Want? Pivoting Technology and Business Models in Emergency Response Management." In C. Gibaldi and L. Iandoli, eds., "Cases studies in the age of digital entrepreneurship," Edward Elgar, 2023.
Cesar Bandera. "Teaching Technology-Based Entrepreneurship with Societal Significance." In C. H. Matthews & S. C. Santos, eds., "Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy," Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
Cesar Bandera, Katia Passerini, Michael Bartolacci. "Connecting Knowledge Management and Entrepreneurship: Processes and Technology." In Murray E. Jennex, eds., "Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in a Changing World," Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in a Changing World, 2020.
Cesar Bandera, Katia Passerini, Michael R. Bartolacci. "Knowledge Management and Entrepreneurship Research and Practice: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities." In Murray E. Jennex, eds., "Effective Knowledge Management Systems in Modern Society," pp. 17. IGI Global, 2019.
Cesar Bandera, Aurélien Eminet, Katia Passerini, Kevin Pon. "Cross-Cultural Entrepreneurship Education: Localization Amidst Globalization." In Charles H. Matthews, Eric W. Liguori, eds., "Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy," pp. 400. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.
Cesar Bandera, Michael Bartolacci, Katia Passerini. "Knowledge Management and Entrepreneurship: a contradictory recipe?." In Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, eds., pp. 945-960. Entrepreneurship Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 2017.
"Entrepeneur 101: Lessons for success in the palm of your hand"
NJBiz Magazine, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2007.
"A resource for emerging companies"
NJBiz Magazine, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2007.
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship - Governance Committee
Committee Member, 2026
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Affinity Group
Committee Chair, 2025
International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation
Editor, Associate Editor, 2023
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
Committee Member, 2023
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
External Examiner of a Ph.D. Dissertation at Another University, 2020
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
Editor, Associate Editor, 2019