Zoltan Acs
University Professor, School of Public Policy
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Curriculum Vita

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2005 University Professor and director Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University (Tenured).

2003- Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Economics, Jena, Germany.

1989 - 2005 Doris and Robert McCurdy Distinguished Professor of
Entrepreneurship, Director Entrepreneurship Program (1998-2002), Professor of Economics (1991-2005), Professor Emeritus (2005- , Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland (tenured 1992; on leave 1994-1995; 1996-1998; Sabbatical leave, 1998-1999).

1998-2001 Census Research Fellow – Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the
Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington D.C.

1996-1998 Chief Economic Advisor – Office of Economic Research, U.S. Small
Business Administration, Washington, D.C.

1994 – 1996 Associate Director – Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Visiting Professor of Business and Public Policy, College of Business and Management, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland.

1986 – 1991 Research Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung, Research Unit: Market Processes and Corporate Development.

1985-1988 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, and Research Associate,
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development Center, University of Illinois –
Springfield, Springfield, Illinois (on Leave 1987-1988).

1982 – 1985 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, School of Business, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York.

1982 – 1983 Research Associate, Institute on Western Europe, Columbia University, New
York, New York.

1980 – 1982 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont.

2000 - External Faculty, Department of Economics, Santa Anna School of Advanced International Studies, Pisa, Italy.

1995 Summer Visiting Professor, C.E.F.I., Faculty Des Sciences Economiques, Universite’ D’ Aix –Marseille II, France

1993 Summer May Wong Smith Fellow, School of Economics and Management, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom.

CONSULTING

2005-2006 Chief, Economic Research Bureau, National Policy Research Council, Washington
D.C.

2005-2006 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Scholar in Residence.

2003-2008 SNS Center for Business and Public Policy, Stockholm Sweden, Research international five-year research project on Entrepreneurship and Society.

2002-2007 National Academy of Sciences, Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy, Washington D. C., five-year evaluation of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR).

April 2003 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Center for the Study of Rural America.

March 2003 United States Department of State, Office of International Information Programs (IIP), U. S. Speaker and Specialist Grant, Mumbai, India.

June 2002 Pivotal Corporation, The Mid-Enterprise Market.

March 2002 SWALES Aerospace Inc. Size Standards.

March 2000 National Commission on Entrepreneurship

September 1999 Commonwealth Development Associates, Inc.

June 1999 U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs.

May 1998 United Nations University, WIDER, Small Firms in Historical
Perspective.

February 1998 Fair Isaac Inc, Small Business Users Exchange.

March 1997 Industry Canada, Regional Innovation and Economic Development.

June 1995 OECD, SMEs: Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Washington,
D.C.

May 1995 EIM, Small Business Research and Consultancy, Netherlands,
“ Economic Position and Deregulation of the Taxi Market.”

April 1995 Industry Canada, Implications of Knowledge Based Growth for Micro-Economic Policies.

April 1992 INAE – National Forum of Brazil – The New International Order, Rio de Janeiro.

December 1991 Nathan Associates Inc., United Nations World Economic Survey, “Entrepreneurship and the Development Challenge of the 1990s. ”

June 1991 Ministry of Industry and Energy, and OECD, Lisbon, Portugal – “SME Strategies for the Nineties. ”

May 1991 Greater Baltimore Committee and CFED – G.B.C. High Tech Scorecard.

September 1990 Commission of the European Communities (Director – General for
Economics and Finance – DG II), “Small Firms and Industry Dynamics.”

June 1989 Ministry of Economic Affairs (Directorate of Technology Policy, Hague,
Netherlands), “Small Firms and Industry Dynamics.”

March 1988 Commission of the European Communities (Directorate – General for
Employment, Special Affairs and Education – DG V), “Employment Creation in Small Firms.”

December 1984 Central Intelligence Agency, “Restructuring in Western Europe, Lessons From the U.S. Steel Industry. ”

Summer 1982 Haldi and Associates, Inc., co-authored with Thomas Vietorisz, “An Account of the Investment Criteria and Decision Making on Long Term Capital and Investment in Growing Small Business.”

Summer 1980 Robert Cohen Associates, Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University, co-authored, “The Future Competitiveness of the U.S. Steel Industry,” Incorporated in a study on U.S. Industry Competitiveness: A Comparison of Steel, Electronics and Automobiles, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., July 1981.