Chair in Entrepreneurship
- School/Department
- Business School
Biography
Dr. Parker is a fractional Professor of Entrepreneurship at Aberdeen University Business School, and a full professor at Ivey Business School. He has published 100 peer-reviewed articles in economics, entrepreneurship and management journals, and is the author of The Economics of Entrepreneurship (Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition 2018). He was as advisor to the OECD on entrepreneurship and SME public policy in Italy in 2013 and Canada in 2015, and is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences and workshops. He also regularly leads doctoral training seminars at universities in the US, UK and Europe. Dr. Parker publishes about two case cases on entrepreneurship every year, with a particular interest in the challenges and strategies associated with Internet-based start-ups, including their use of social media.
External Memberships
Dr Parker is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Venturing