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Zoltan
Acs University Professor, School of Public Policy, Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy zacs@gmu.edu 703-993-1780 703-993-2284 fax George Mason School of Public Policy 4400 University Drive, MSN 3C6 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Education Ph.D., Graduate Faculty, The New School Recent Developments in Applied Economics, University of Chicago M.A. in Political Economy, The New School B.A. Cleveland State University Biography Zoltan J. Acs is University Professor at the School of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. He is also a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena, Germany, and Scholar-in-Residence at the Kauffman Foundation. He is coeditor and founder of Small Business Economics, the leading entrepreneurship and small business publication in the world. Previously, he held the position of Doris and Robert McCurdy Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in the Robert G. Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore. He has also served as: Research Fellow at the U. S. Bureau of the Census, Chief Economic Advisor at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Associate Director of Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University of Maryland, Research Fellow at the Science Center Berlin, and Research Associate at the Institute on Western Europe at Columbia University. Dr. Acs has held faculty positions at Middlebury College and The University of Illinois-Springfield. While at the SBA, Dr. Acs provided direction for research conducted in the Office of Advocacy on analysis of economic trends, provided analyses on proposed legislation affecting SBA programs and was responsible for producing the economic analysis in the office annual report, The State of Small Business. He also prepared special reports for the White House, the Administrator, congressional committees, congressional hearings and the public, and furnished economic advice and counsel for important governmental action decisions as they affect small business. He has provided many years guiding the development of policy and information on small business across numerous organizations. Dr. Acs is a leading advocate of the importance of entrepreneurship for economic development. He received the 2001 International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research, on behalf of The Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development. He has published more than 100 articles and 20 books, including articles in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Kyklos, Journal of Urban Economics, Economica, Research Policy and Science Policy. Dr. Acs is currently completing a research project on Knowledge, Geography and American Economic Growth, funded by the National Science Foundation, The American Statistical Association and the U. S. Small Business Administration. The research will be published by Cambridge University Press and focuses on the role new firms play in technology spillovers and economic growth. The work presents the impact of entrepreneurship policy on different regions in the country. Currently Dr. Acs is working with the Kauffman Foundation on developing public policies that promote an entrepreneurial economy. This policy initiative takes a broad view of public policy encompassing the individual, the economy, international aspects, the region. and social policy. A
native of Hungary, Dr. Acs and his
wife Jane reside in Ruxton, Maryland.
They have two children, Ashley
and Annabel. His hobbies include cooking,
skiing and biking. In 1998, he completed
the largest cross-country bike ride
in history: The GTE BIG RIDE across
America, which raised millions for
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