OECD Seminar, Paris 13 March, 2012
Title of Seminar
‘Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development: Diversity and Value Creation’
Abstract
In this seminar Professor Jay Mitra will explore how entrepreneurship as economic, social, cultural and personal value creation can help to address development, growth and sustainability issues in OECD and non-OECD economies. Drawing on evidence from emerging and developed economies Jay Mitra will discuss how the analysis of micro business models and the diversity of macro level development pathways can help us to design effective tools for economic development and social progress. The challenge for us is the appropriate conceptualisation and measurement of value creation for progress and development at a time of dramatic change in the global economy.
Bio-sketch
Jay Mitra is the founding Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at EssexBusinessSchool, at the University of Essex, UK.
Professor Mitra has acted as a Scientific Adviser to the OECD and as the Head of the Scientific Committee on Entrepreneurship for the OECD’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and the LEED Programme at its Trento Centre. He has held Visiting Professorships at the School of Management, FudanUniversity, and theSchool of Public Policy at JilinUniversity, both in China. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. Jay Mitra also leads the International Entrepreneurship Forum, a unique network for researchers, policy makers and business practitioners working on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development issues. He is a Board member of the International Council of Small Business.Educated in India and the UK, Professor Mitra trained in the private sector in the UK, worked as a Principal Officer for local government in the UK, specialising in economic and business development, and taught at 3 other universities before joining the University of Essex. At Essex he established the unique and highly successful School of Entrepreneurship and Business (SEB) in 2005 which preceded his contribution to the creation of EssexBusinessSchool in 2008. He has also led the growing Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at the university since its inception. He is a member of various editorial boards of international refereed journals and published widely on the subject of entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development He is currently editing a Routledge series on Entrepreneurship Studies with Professor Zoltan Acs of George Mason University, USA. His most recent book is ‘Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Development’ published by Routledge in August, 2011.