Homepage Introduction Program Speakers ARTICLES Links Registration Venue Contact		Paul D. Reynolds   Biography   Dr. Paul D. Reynolds is a Professor in Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College and the director of the annual Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference (1996-2000). From 1990-1995, he was the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI). Dr. Reynolds has been very active in research involving new firms, entrepreneurship, and their role in economic change and development. His efforts have included roles in the development of several state-wide (Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) samples of new firms with follow-ups. With regional economist Wilbur Maki (U. of Minnesota) he analyzed the effect of the local context on firm births and the effect of firm births on job growth. He worked with a European team (coordinated by David Storey, U. of Warwick, UK) to develop U.S.-Western European comparisons on the role of regional factors affecting entrepreneurial activity. Reynolds is now coordinator of the Entrepreneurial Research Consortium [ERC], an international collaboration of 31 university units, government agencies, and foundations implementing national longitudinal studies of business start-ups in the US and eight other countries. As coordinating principal investigator of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor [GEM] project, he is coordinating 10 national teams in an ongoing analysis of the contributions of the entrepreneurial sector to national economic growth. Dr. Reynolds educational background includes degrees in engineering, business, psychology (MA, Stanford, 1966), and sociology (Ph.D., Stanford, 1969). He served as: Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota for twenty years; Visiting and Adjunct Professor of Management (1984-1987) at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Visiting Professor (1991) at Nanyang Technical University, Singapore; Contributing Professor at INSEAD (1993) in Fountainebleau, France; Adjunct Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (1993-96); and Visiting Research Professor at the London Business School (Winter 1998). Dr. Reynolds is the author or co-author of three conference proceedings, four books, four data sets in the University of Michigan ICPSR public archives, twenty-five project reports and research monographs, sixty peer review journal articles or conference proceeding reports, and several hundred professional conference presentations.		David B. Audretsch Iris Beckmann Thorsten Benner Albrecht Bochow William Gaines Heike Grimm Reinhard von Hennigs Dietmar Herz Ralf Kersten Paul D. Reynolds Christian Schetter Rolf Sternberg Jochen Struck James Turner Friederike Welter Charles Wessner
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