{"id":5674,"date":"2006-01-01T13:35:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T17:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:04:49","slug":"renowned-researcher-presents-presidential-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2006\/01\/renowned-researcher-presents-presidential-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned researcher presents Presidential Lecture."},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n<\/strong>David L. Birch<\/span><\/p>\n

David L. Birch<\/span><\/strong>, business demography and public policy consultant, recently lectured in Florida International University\u2019s prestigious Presidential Lecture Series. The talk, titled \u201cEntrepreneurship in a Transformed Society,\u201d drew an enthusiastic audience that included university President Modesto A. Maidique<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Birch, formerly an MIT senior research scientist and the first winner, in 1996, of the coveted FSF-NUTEK Award\u2014The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research, which is the equivalent to the Nobel Prize in entrepreneurial research\u2014wrote a seminal study, The Job Generation Process,<\/em> in 1979. This pioneering work\u2014in which he argued that small- and medium-sized firms create most of the jobs\u2014prompted global research, much of which supported his assertions. As a result, his ideas have influenced research and public policy throughout the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to laying the foundation for further explorations on the subject of job creation, his views have contributed to the research community\u2019s examinations of many other economic issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps the biggest lesson from Dr. Birch\u2019s outstanding lecture was the confirmation that entrepreneurship is a difficult, time-consuming, and perilous journey,\u201d said, Alan L. Carsrud<\/strong>,executive director of the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center. \u201cHe reiterated that real entrepreneurs need to acknowledge this and learn from their failures so they can ultimately succeed. This is a journey many wish they could take, and only a small proportion does. But without them, no economy could exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2001, the Presidential Lecture Series, begun with the help of a generous donation by President Maidique, has fulfilled three goals: first, to expose students to \u201cthe world at the forefront of science;\u201d second, to accelerate education and research in scientific disciplines via interaction with world-renowned scientists; and third, to increase the university\u2019s visibility.<\/p>\n

The College of Business Administration\u2019s own Paul Reynolds<\/strong>, professor of entrepreneurship in the Department of Management and International Business and director of the Entrepreneurship Research Institute within the Pino Center, won the FSF-NUTEK award in 2004. The Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) and the Swedish Business Development Agency (NUTEK) present the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David L. Birch David L. Birch, business demography and public policy consultant, recently lectured in Florida International University\u2019s prestigious Presidential Lecture Series. The talk, titled \u201cEntrepreneurship in a Transformed Society,\u201d drew an enthusiastic audience that included university President Modesto A. Maidique. Dr. Birch, formerly an MIT senior research scientist and the first winner, in 1996, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[571,813,1927,2099,2229],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24475,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions\/24475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}