About the Author

David A. Kirby is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Surrey in England and adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of South Australia. He has worked in six universities in the United Kingdom as well as overseas. He is a former Senior Vice President and Director of the International Council for Small Business and in recognition of his training and consultancy work with small and medium-sized enterprises, has been elected to a Fellowship of the Institute of Business Advisers. In 1986, his graduate entrepreneurship programme, Graduate Enterprise in Wales, received the recognition of the Royal Society of Arts under its Education for Capability Programme, being recognised for “the way it has developed the personal competence and confidence of its participants and for the way such a high proportion of those participants have turned their academic knowledge and skills into successful products and businesses of their own”. Subsequently, he was elected to a Fellowship of the Society for his contribution to that programme. Currently he is a member of a working party of the U.K. Council for Excellence in Leadership and Management that is examining the role of Business Schools in the creation of leaders and managers for the 21st century, and, at the University of Surrey, has responsibility for the University’s Entrepreneurship and “Spinout” activity, as Deputy Director of UniSdirect, the Outreach arm of the University of Surrey. He has published 15 books and research monographs and more than 115 articles in learned journals.

2003 A McGraw-Hill Online Learning Centre
Any use is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
McGraw-Hill Education Europe is one of the many fine businesses of The McGraw-Hill Companies.