Institute for Development Strategies Research Scholar
Roy Thurik is professor of industrial and small business economics at Erasmus
University Rotterdam and professor of entrepreneurship at the Free University in
Amsterdam. He is scientific advisor at EIM small business research and consultancy in
Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, the largest private small business research institute in the
world. Roy's research focuses on the role of small firms in markets, on the role of
business owners in firms and on the consequences and causes of entrepreneurship in
economies.
He is a research fellow at two renowned Dutch schools: the Tinbergen Institute for
economic sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management. He recently published
Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment with Cambridge University Press
together with David Audretsch. He has published over eighty scholarly articles in leading
international academic journals. Twelve have been published in Small Business
Economics.
Books:
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Quantitative
Analysis of Retail Productivity,
(W.D. Meinema, Delft, 1984). |
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Small Business in the Modern
Economy, with Z. Acs and B. Carlsson (eds.),
(Basil Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1996). |
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Kleine Bedrijven als Banenmotor?,
with L. Klomp, (Van Gorkum, Assen, 1997. |
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Handboek Ondernemers en Adviseurs in het MKB, with D.P. Scherjon
(eds.),
(Kluwer Bedrijfsinformatie, Deventer, 1998). |
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Innovation, Industry Evolution and
Employment, with D.B. Audretsch (eds.)
(Cambridge University Press, 1999). |
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Little Known Facts About Roy:
| Roy spends his summers in the south of France, except in 1999 when he made his
pilgrimage to IU. |
| Every night at 10, he walks Docus, his pet dog. |
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