Entrepreneurship Research

How Cities Hurt Economic Development and Tourism - The Biggest Mistakes

Big Mistake
Computerized Signs
Focus groups rate these signs as "dangerous" and "trashy" looking. Sole purpose is to distract attention of drivers by using blinking motions and red/yellow colors. Lowest rated of all signs. Banned from many communities.


Big Mistake
Temporary Signs
Creates perception that area is "cluttered, has "low community pride", and may not enforce other regulations


Welcome to the
Web Page of Dr. Craig S. Galbraith

Professor, Technology, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Strategy
GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellow, Technogy and Economic Development
Bill and Jackie Warwick Faculty Fellow, Entrepreneurship


In 1890 Charles Elliot, President of Harvard University, wrote that a good business education develops “accuracy in observation, quickness and certainty in seizing upon the main points of a new subject, and discrimination in separating the trivial from the important in great masses of facts." To this extent, the modern business management degree combines the best of the humanities, economics, liberal arts, and social sciences into a course of study designed to enhance global life in the 21st century.

Recent Editorials and White Papers
1) Read "The Great Global Rip-off", Op Ed, Wilmington Star-News, 2/26/05
or in PDF form
1) Read "Business Can Be Lost in the Blink of a Sign", Op Ed, Wilmington Star-News, 3/20/05 or in PDF form
2) Read "Why Real Healthcare Reform Won't Happen
3) Read "Rural Technology Clusters: Back to the Basics", White Paper published by the Institute of Emerging Issues (NCSU, 2005)
4) Read "Policy Recommendations for Linking University Technology Transfer and Economic Development in North Carolina", White Paper published by the Institute of Emerging Issues,(NCSU, 2005)



     

Real Life Experience - Technololgy Transfer Student Projects
Under the direction of Dr. Galbraith, Cameron graduate and undergraduate students are assisting in transfering and commercializing advanced technologies. Under various contracts with different Department of Defense technology transfer agencies, since Fall, 2003 UNCW project teams have been assigned to assist in this effort. UNCW's past technology transfer projects include: a Micro-pore Bio-terrorism Detection System; a Hyperspectral Explosives Detection System for airport security; Naval Undersea Warfare Center's Robust Automated Classification System, various Chemical Warfare Agent Detection Systems, a Container Alert System for Port Security, a Handheld Biological Collection Device from Los Alamos Defense Laboratory, a heads-up near-eye mounted optical display for telemedicine, and a fluorometer detection system for improvised explosive devices. Recent projects include a disease vector control system for military bases in Iraq, a through-wall motion sensing device, and a new adjuvant to increase effectiveness of anthrax vaccines. Dr. Galbraith specializes in bio/chem warfare agent detection and port security technologies

Biographical Information
Links to biographical information
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View Academic Vita

Ph.D. Strategic Management and Mathematical Economics, Purdue University
MSc. Molecular and Environmental Biology, University of Nebraska
MBA Manufacturing Management, San Diego State University
B.A. Economic Philosophy, San Diego State University

Dr. Galbraith has published 6 books, and over 100 academic papers in top journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, California Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Journal of Technology Transfer, and Journal of High Technology Management Research. As an entrepreneur, he has been the co-founder of a California-based biotechnology firm, and is currently the Vice-President of Commercialization for Horizon Vision Research, Inc., a start-up medical instruments R&D firm.
Useful and Interesting Links
Links to other information
View Agencies and Universities
View IPO & Venture Capital
View Professional Associations
View Personal Interests


Best Blog Sites -
"Best source of political, economic, and business insights, these are my favorite blog sites. More up-to-date, accurate and useful information than traditional newspapers or main stream media"

View Powerline - My personal favorite
View Poliblog - A sharp political science prof
View Michelle Malkin - No-nonsense journalistic insight
View Counterterror - insights of counterterrorism experts

Quote to Think About -
"When a civilization no longer inculcates an overriding attachment to its own survival, it no longer survives as a civilization. In peacetime, the disintegration appears more theoretical. In wartime, the holes really begin to show." Diana West, editorial, Washington Times, 3/30/2007.

Books Recent Books
View The Benedictine Rule of Leadership
(published by Adams Media, NY, 2004)

View Forbes.com Review of Benedictine Rule of Leadership and other book reviews

Published in Portuguese as Código Beneditino de Liderança (Editora Landscape, 2005)



View Developmental Entrepreneurship: Adversity, Risk, and Isolation
(published by Elsevier Science, 2006)



View Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Adversity, Risk and Isolation
(published by Elsevier Science, 2004)



View Organizations in Transition
(published by Elsevier Science, 2002)



View First Responder Technology Needs: Command, Control and Communication (C3) for Situational Awareness (view full report, pdf file)
(2007, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center-SSC SD, Prepared for Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (OSD), Homeland Defense and America's Security Affairs, 1401 Technology Transfer)


Forthcoming in 2009, Commercialization of Advanced Technologies (to be published by Elsevier Science)

Forthcoming in 2009, Entrepreneurship and Homeland Security (to be published by Edward Elgar Press)


New Research
Technology Transfer Research Study
Recently funded by CCAT/SPAWAR, with San Diego State University, a year-long study to investigate whether or not experts reviewers, technology transfer officers, and venture capitalists can actually predict the success or failure of early stage technologies. Investigators will follow over 600 advanced technologies from early stage development to final commercialization.
Economic Development Research Study
Read details of the new "Community Hospitality Perception Index" (CHPI), and how local communities rate on the CHPI. Click Here to see ratings for Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, Southport, Jacksonville, and areas of Wilmington as well as for several Southern California tourist communities.

Selected Forthcoming and Recent Academic Articles
"The Impact of Ethnolinguistic Diversity on Entrepreneurial Activity: A Cross-Country Study" International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2009, 6(1) - forthcoming. download article

"Market Share, Scale, and Market Value: An Empirical Study of Small Closely-Held Manufacturing Firms" Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2008, 21(4) - forthcoming. download article

"Can Experts Really Assess Future Technology Success? A Neural Network and Bayesian Analysis of Early Stage Technology Proposals" Journal of High Technology Management Research, 2007, 17, 125-137. download article

"Social Capital as a Club Good: The Case of Ethnic Enclaves and Entrepreneurship" Journal of Enterprising Communities, 2007, 1(1), 38-53. download article

"An Empirical Note on Entrepreneurial Activity, Intrinsic Religiosity and Economic Growth", Journal of Enterprising Communities, 2007, 1(20, 188-201 download article

"SME Competitive Strategy and Location Behavior: The Case of High Technology Manufacturing" (forthcoming, 2007), Journal of Small Business Management

"Market Justice, Religious Orientation, and Entrepreneurial Attitudes", Journal of Enterprising Communities, 2007, 1(2), 121-134. download article

"False Myths and Indigenous Entrepreneurship" (Journal of Small Business and Entreprenership, 2006, 16, 1-18) also reprint in T. Anderson, B. Benson, and T. Flanagan, Self Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans. Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, CA, pp. 1-20. download article

"Disasters and Entrepreneurship: A Short Review" in Developmental Entrepreneurship: Adversity, Risk, and Isolation (Galbraith, C., and C. Stiles, eds), Elsevier, 2006, pp. 147-165. download article

"Poverty, Developing Entrepreneurship and Aid Economics in Mozambique: A Review of Empirical Research" in Developmental Entrepreneurship: Adversity, Risk, and Isolation (Galbraith, C., and C. Stiles, eds), Elsevier, 2006, pp. 187-201. download article

"Predicting Technology Success: Identifying Key Predictors and Assessing Expert Evaluation for Advanced Technologies" Journal of Technology Transfer, 2006, 32(1), 673-684. download article

"The Effect of Management Policies on Plant Level Productivity: A Longitudinal Study of Three U.S. and Mexican Small Businesses," Journal of Small Business Management, 2005, 43(4),418-431

"Spin-In Technology Transfer for Small R&D Biotechnology Firms: The Case of Bio-Defense" Journal of Technology Transfer, 2004, 26, 377-382. download article

"Metaphors of Economic Activity in 19th and 20th Century Western Art," International Journal of Management, 2004, 21(1), 16-24. download article



Fall, 2009 Courses The following links take you to course material

View course material for "Graduate Entrepreneurship", MBA 533
see Blackboard

Intellectual Property Lecture with narration

View course material for "Entrepreneurial Finance and Valuation"
EBD 481 (Fall, 2009)

View course material for "Doctorate Seminar in Strategy and Budgeting", BUS 624
see Blackboard

Summer, 2009 Courses The following links take you to course material

View course material for "Hospitality Management"
MGT 357 (Summer, 2009)

View course material for "Competitive Strategy"
Mgt 455 (Summer, 2009)


Updated: February 5, 2008, Craig S. Galbraith
University of North Carolina, Wilmington