Prof. Dr. Roy Thurik

Roy Thurik is Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Free University in Amsterdam. He is scientific advisor at Panteia/EIM Business and Policy Research in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. He is Visiting Professor at GSCM-Montpellier Business School in France. He is a Research Fellow at two renowned Dutch research schools: the Tinbergen Institute for Economic Sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management.
Roy's research focuses on the role of small firms in markets, the role of business owners in firms, industrial organisation and policy, nascent entrepreneurship and the consequences and causes of entrepreneurship in economies.
His research has been published in more than hundred articles in leading aca-demic journals, including Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Review of Industrial Organisation, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Kyklos, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Economics Letters, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Applied Economics, De Economist, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Japan and the World Economy, European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, European Economic Review, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Econometrics, Annales de l’INSEE, Journal of Retailing, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, European Journal of Epidemiology, Harvard Busi-ness Review.

He is (co)-editor of the books Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment with Cambridge University Press (1999), Entrepreneurship: Determinants and Policy in a European-US Comparison with Kluwer Academic Publishers (2002), Handboek Ondernemers en Adviseurs with Kluwer Bedrijfsinformatie (2003), The Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth with Edward Elgar Publishing (2006), The Handbook of Entrepreneurship Policies with Edward El-gar Publishing (2007), Business Regulation and Public Policy: the Costs and Benefits of Compliance with Springer (2008) and Entrepreneurship and Culture with Springer (2010)
He is associate editor of Small Business Economics. He is on the editorial board of Service Industries Journal, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practise, Journal of Marketing Channels, International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, International Review of Entrepreneurship, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Journal of Small Business Management, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Research Journal. He was on the scientific committee of many conferences such as the last eight RENT conferences. He is Wilford F. White fellow of International Council for Small Business and (the third) fellow of the European Council for Small Business. He is Ameritech research scholar of the Institute for Development Studies of Indiana University.
He consulted with many firms and (international) institutions.
Roy’s courses include Small Business Economics, Economics of Entrepreneur-ship, Dynamics and Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship and Small Business at EUR and Economics and Management of SMEs at the Free University Amsterdam. He coordinates the master’s program Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Organization Economics, the bachelor III major Entrepreneurship and the campus minor Entrepreneurship at the Erasmus School of Economics. He set up the famous Erasmus Masterclass Entrepreneurship.
He supervised the PhD studies of Yvonne Prince (Price-cost margins in Dutch manufacturing), Jeroen Potjes (Empirical studies in Japanese retailing), Jan van Dalen (Quantitative studies in wholesaling), Ben Bode (Studies in retail pricing), Luuk Klomp (Quantitative models in the hospitality sector), Martin Carree (Market dynamics, evolution and smallness), Jan de Kok (Human resource management within small and medium-sized enterprises), Marco van Gelderen (Opportunity, entry, performance: studies of entrepreneurship and small business), André van Stel, (Business ownership and economic growth: some empirical studies), Ingrid Verheul (Is there a (fe)male approach? understanding gender differences in entrepreneurship), Sander Wennekers (Entrepreneurship at country level: economic and non-economic determinants), Armenio Bispo (Labour issues in the Dutch hospitality sector), Jolanda Hessels (International entrepreneurship: value creation across national borders), Hugo Erken (Productivity, R&D and entrepreneurship) and Haibo Zhou (The Interlinks between knowledge and entrepreneurship).
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