Programme Speakers
Ron Botham
Ron Botham is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development in the University of Glasgow's Training and Employment Research Unit, a self-financing research and consultancy specialising in local and regional economic development. Having completed his PhD at the University of Reading, he spent 10 years at Liverpool John Moores University teaching in both the Departments of Planning and Business Studies before joining the Scottish Development Agency/Scottish Enterprise in 1986. Here he held a number of senior research and strategy posts and was responsible for developing Scotland's Business Birth Rate Strategy and led the joint Scottish Enterprise/Royal Society of Edinburgh team which produced a strategy for increasing the commercial exploitation of Scotland's university research. Since joining the University of Glasgow in 1999, he has undertaken a large number of studies on entrepreneurship, innovation, industrial clusters and their links to regional economic development.
