Simon Parker – Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship and Director, Driving Growth Through Entrepreneurship & Innovation Cross-Enterprise Leadership Centre

Professor Parker is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He is a Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany; a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour, IZA, in Bonn, Germany; and a Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Small Business Economics, a Co-editor of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and is a member of the editorial boards of the International Small Business Journal and Foundations & Trends in Entrepreneurship. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in economics, entrepreneurship and management journals and has edited several books on the Economics of Entrepreneurship. His book, The Economics of Self-employment and Entrepreneurship, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004; an updated version entitled The Economics of Entrepreneurship will appear in 2009. He is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences and workshops.

Prior to joining Ivey, Professor Parker was Head of Department of Economics & Finance and was a full Professor of Economics at Durham Business School in England. Professor Parker was a visiting professor and Lansdowne Fellow at the University of Victoria, Canada. He teaches various classes in the Entrepreneurship group at Ivey and has previously taught a wide variety of courses in economics, finance, econometrics, statistics and entrepreneurship to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK.

PROGRAM TEACHING

New Venture Creation, HBA
Managing High Growth Companies, HBA

RESEARCH/COURSE DEVELOPMENT

The economics of entrepreneurship

EXPERIENCE

Previous positions: Full Professor of Economics, Durham University 1999-2008; Reader in Economics, Brunel and Durham Universities, 1996-1998; Lecturer in Economics, Durham University, 1991-1996

Previous activities: Member of the PSED II consortium; judge of the annual CBI-sponsored UK Growing Business Awards competition, London, UK; external contributor to University of Louisville, USA, PhD in Entrepreneurship programme (Economics of Entrepreneurship); member of the International Scientific Committee of the World Entrepreneurship Summit, 2009

EXPERTISE

Entrepreneurship as an occupational choice; nascent entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; female entrepreneurship