Dr. David Deeds, Schulze Chaired Professor of The Opus College of Business at The University of St. Thomas

email:David.Deeds@stthomas.edu

Dr. Deeds is the Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas and the Director of the Morrison Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. During his career he has held faculty positions at The University of Texas at Dallas, The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and The Fox School of Business at Temple University. He founded the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Dallas and created the concentration in Bioscience Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1994. In 2001 he was a named research fellow at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. In 2007, Dr. Deeds was awarded the Haniel Fellowship in Entrepreneurship at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Prior to pursuing a career as an academic, Dr. Deeds was co-founder and president of LightSpeed Corporation, a computer hardware and software developer specializing in custom CAD/CAM computer systems, from 1983-1989. He has provided executive seminars for companies around the globe including Alcoa, Cardinal Health, Digicel, Lubrizol, MedRad, The American Society of Manufacturers, The Industrial Distributors Association, SAFRAN, and United Supermarkets, Champion Technologies and numerous other companies and community organizations. Dr. Deeds has also taught in the Executive MBA programs at Temple University, The Weatherhead School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas and Humboldt University in Berlin. In addition he has worked as a strategy consultant to a number of companies including ALCOA and Champion Technologies among others. Dr. Deeds' particular areas of specialization are strategy, technology management, innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in corporate environments and the management of joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Dr. Deeds' articles have appeared in numerous outlets including Inc. Magazine, The Journal of Business Venturing, The Strategic Management Journal, and The Journal of Product Innovation Management. He received the Mescon Award for best empirical research in Entrepreneurship at The National Academy of Management meetings in 1996, was awarded the NASDAQ Fellowship in Capital Formation in 1997 and received The Fast Company Award for best paper on high growth firms at The National Academy of Management meetings in 2000. His current research interests include the management of strategic alliances, new product development processes, technology commercialization, market entry strategies and innovation management.

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