Entrepreneurship in China

Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Time: 17h30 for 18h00
Cocktail to follow
Location: Bert Wessels Lecture Theatre, Wits Business School
RSVP: Khutšo Ramontja 011 717 3838 or Khutso.ramontja@wits.ac.za

Admission free

Professor David Smallbone is a specialist in applied policy-related research and consultancy on entrepreneurship and SME development, much of it in an international context. He is currently Professor Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Associate Director of the Small Business Research Centre, which he joined in July 2004, having previously led the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research at Middlesex University. David is also Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, China, Past President of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) and President Elect of the International Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ICSB). David is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Danish Academy of Entrepreneurship. In 2004, Professor Smallbone was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Lodz, Poland for his contribution to the study of entrepreneurship, policy and practice in transition economies. In 2008, he received an Erskine Fellowship to spend 3 months at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Professor Smallbone has been involved in research relating to SMEs and SME policy since the late 1980s. He has published widely on topics that include high growth SMEs; enterprise development in rural areas; innovation and innovation policy; internationalisation and SME development; innovation and innovation policy; and entrepreneurship and SME development in transition economies.