Michaël Bikard

Michaël Bikard is an Associate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. His research examines how innovation unfolds within its moment—the alignment of ideas with technological, social, and institutional conditions that shape their success and impact. Specifically, he explores how timing and context influence the fate of ideas and how innovators can act to tilt the odds in their favor. For instance, his research on “idea twins”—cases in which several teams develop essentially the same idea at the same time—shows how an idea can meet strikingly different fates depending on where it emerges.

His work has been published in leading management journals, including the Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science. His research has also received several awards, including the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, the J. Robert Beyster Fellowship, and the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, as well as first place in the MIT Sloan Doctoral Research Forum and the MIT Energy Fellowship.

Before joining INSEAD, Professor Bikard was on the faculty of the London Business School. He completed his PhD at MIT Sloan in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management group.