Dr. Paul Reynolds

The Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship (JJCBE)’s Center for Entrepreneurship will host its first Researcher-in-Residence, Dr. Paul Reynolds, on Monday, September 29.

Reynolds is one of the most prolific entrepreneurship researchers in the world and is the coordinating principal investigator for two of the largest longitudinal entrepreneurship studies (GEM and PSED).

His presentation "Understanding Business Creation: Entrepreneurship as a Global & Local Phenomena," will take place on Monday, September 29, 2014 from 5:00-6:00 pm in Reid 333 (part of the JJCBE Center for Entrepreneurship).

Reynolds will talk about reasons to study firm creation, two big research programs aimed to identify and describe nascent entrepreneurs (GEM and PSED), prevalence of entrepreneurship in the World, and issues relevant towards studying entrepreneurship.

About the Speaker

Professor Paul D. Reynolds (PhD, Stanford) is now Marie Curie Professional Research Fellow at Aston Business School in Birmingham, UK. His primary focus is on new firm creation and entrepreneurship, focusing on analysis of start-up processes in the US and cross national efforts. He served as the coordinating principal investigator of two longitudinal studies of US business creation (Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, I and II) and as the founding principal investigator of a multi-nation comparison of entrepreneurial activity (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor).

In 2004 he received the annual Swedish International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research and in 2012 the Dedication to Entrepreneurship (Research) Award from the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division.

Over the past four decades Prof. Reynolds has been the author or co-author of five books; seven edited collections; 42 research reports and monographs; 85 peer review journal articles and book chapters; eight data sets placed in public archives; and over two hundred presentations to professional and policy audiences. He served as the director of the Babson Research Conference from 1996 to 2000 and as co-director of the George Washington University-ICSB research conference from 2010 to 2012.