Alex Coad

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Alex Coad is a Professor at Waseda Business School (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan), and is interested in the areas of firm growth, firm performance, entrepreneurship, and innovation policy.

Alex has published over 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. According to Google Scholar, Alex has over 14’000 citations and an H-index of over 50. Alex is an Editor at the journals ‘Research Policy’ (Financial Times Top 50 list of journals for Business Schools) and ‘Small Business Economics’, and Associate Editor at ‘Industrial and Corporate Change’. Previously Alex obtained a PhD from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Sant’Anna School, Pisa, Italy, and held academic positions at the Max Planck Institute (Jena, DE), Aalborg University (Denmark), SPRU (Univ. Sussex, UK), and CENTRUM Graduate Business School (Lima, Peru), and also being an Economic Analyst at the European Commission (IRI group, JRC-IPTS, Sevilla). In December 2016, Alex received the 2016 Nelson Prize at University of California Berkeley.

Waseda website for Alex Coad

Editor, Research Policy
Editor, Small Business Economics
Associate Editor, Industrial & Corporate Change

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