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Helen Lawton-Smith (University of Arizona)

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Classroom Building 334
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Helen Lawton-Smith

Helen Lawton Smith

Helen Lawton Smith is Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London. Her research career has focused on the links between entrepreneurship, innovation, public policy and regional development in national and international contexts. She is the Founder and Research Director of the Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University (http://oeo.geog.ox.ac.uk) and is Director of the Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research (http://bbk.ac.uk/innovation). She is the author of nine books and of over ninety journal articles and book chapters and is Associate Editor, Strategic Change:Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance. She is the UK principal investigator of a European Union project Transforming Institutions by Gendering Contents and Gaining Equality in Research  (TRIGGER) (2013-2017).