Creso Sá is a Distinguished Professor of Science Policy, Higher Education, and Innovation at the University of Toronto. He is also Chair of the Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
Creso is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Higher Education and of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education.
His work focuses on science & technology policy, the evolving role of universities in supporting innovation, and the organization of science. He is co-author of Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth, published by Harvard University Press in 2009; and of The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
His research has been funded by SSHRC, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, the National Science Foundation, the Canadian Education Association, the Ontario Ministry of Colleges, and Universities, and the Connaught Fund.
Creso writes a monthly column for University Affairs, and is an occasional contributor to Times Higher Education.