This $1.2 million Chair was awarded to Indiana University in 1992 by the Ameritech Foundation.  It followed a five-year effort supported by a $500,000 grant from the Foundation to establish an "Ameritech Fellowship Program." During its five years, over 35 individual faculty members conducted research under this program.   The projects targeted major issues related to the new and emerging economies of mature economic regions with emphasis placed on the American Midwest.  The new program of the Ameritech Chair will carry on many of the efforts established by the Ameritech Fellowship program.  Dr. Charles F. Bonser served as the Chair from 1992 through 1997.  Dr. David B. Audretsch was appointed the second Ameritech Chair in 1998.

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