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Mike
Wright
Professor & Director, Nottingham University Business School |
Mike is Professor of Financial Studies at Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) and Director of the Center for Management Buy-out Research (CMBOR) which he founded in 1986. He is also a Visiting professor at Erasmus University, Imperial College and the University of Siena. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ghent in 2006.
He is the author/editor of 50 books and has published over 300 academic papers on academic entrepreneurs, private equity, habitual and returnee entrepreneurs, and related topics in leading international journals. His latest books include "Academic Entrepreneurship in Europe" (with Clarysse, Mustar and Lockett) and "Private Equity and Management Buy-outs" (with Bruining). Mike was ranked #1 worldwide for publications in academic entrepreneurship 1981-2005 [Rothaermel et al, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007]. He is an editor of Journal of Technology Transfer and an associate editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He recently stepped down after six years as an editor of Journal of Management Studies. He has edited special issues of Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change and Journal of Management Studies on entrepreneurial activity at universities and research commercialization. He is currently researching the growth of research-based, high tech spin-offs.
Mike is a member of the British Venture Capital Association Research Advisory Board and has undertaken consultancy projects on venture capital and private equity for a wide range of organizations, including the European Venture Capital Association, the EBRD, Dutch Venture Capital Association, British Venture Capital Association, the National Audit Office, etc. The OECD recently published his report on developments in Private Equity. Mike has contributed extensively to the media through newspaper articles, articles in the specialist financial press, radio and television. He is a regular presenter at business and practitioner conferences on private equity and academic entrepreneurship. He was research director at NUBS from 1991 to 2001, taking the School to an international research rating. He teaches highly rated MBA courses on Venture Capital and Private Equity.