April Burrage is a provostial fellow at Stanford University in the Management Science and Engineering department and a 2025 AEA summer economics fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Burrage’s research explores the institutional foundations of entrepreneurial opportunity and innovation, with a focus on how policies shape pathways for emerging tech entrepreneurs. Her current work investigates the effects of innovation policy on tech entrepreneurship and the motivations driving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, or STEM, professionals to commercialize scientific ideas. Her research has been published in Research Policy, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and cited in Brookings Institution. Burrage holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.