Profile of Visiting International Distinguished Scholar, Professor Scott Shane
Scott Shane has written extensively about entrepreneurship and innovation. His book Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live by (Yale University Press, 2008) was one of the top ten business books of the year for Amazon.com. His 2005 book Finding Fertile Ground: Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Businesses won the 2006 Golden Book Award for best business book of the year and has been translated into eight languages.
The author of numerous scholarly articles and books about many aspects of entrepreneurship, Shane was the 2009 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the most prestigious award in this academic field. Shane has also written extensively for popular audiences, currently penning a regular column called “Do the Math” for the New York Times’ small business website “You’re the Boss.” He has been a frequent commentator on television programs, appearing on CNN and Fox Business, and he has been a guest on dozens of radio talk shows across the United States.
After faculty stints at the University of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Georgia Institute of Technology, Shane is currently the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He has spent 17 years studying entrepreneurship, including several years as the principal investigator of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s flagship research effort, the Kauffman Firm Survey.
Shane received his A.B. at Brown University and his PhD in applied economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Born in 1964, he lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where, in addition to his academic position, he is an active angel investor with the Northcoast Angel Fund.
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