Sen’s research examines the entire developmental course of creative innovations from idea conception to commercialization, with the goal of helping managers and policymakers better support innovation and increase organizations’ chances of creating commercially successful ideas. Her current projects focus on understanding how scientific breakthroughs emerge by concentrating on failed opportunities, the process by which researchers or teams of researchers in firms and universities conceive of commercially successful ideas, and the role of physical and virtual conferences as a vehicle for collaboration. In the context of innovation policy, she is studying innovative performance and productivity effects of academic-industry collaboration grants in Denmark and government-backed venture funds in China, as well as understanding which managerial and structural factors of these funding schemes make them more effective.