Collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurial synergy remain top-of-mind for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Patrick J. Murphy, Ph.D., has been tapped as the inaugural Goodrich Endowed Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Collat School of Business.
"Hiring Dr. Murphy reinforces UAB's commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship," said Eric Jack, dean of the Collat School of Business. "The Goodrich endowed chair will bring credibility, cross-disciplinary collaborations and the horsepower to significantly enhance our academic and experiential programs, to help innovate Birmingham."
Murphy has been an entrepreneurship professor for more than 15 years and is well-versed in cutting-edge entrepreneurship training and the enhancement of entrepreneurship education through outreach to entrepreneurial ventures, community engagement and program development. His long list of entrepreneurship research publications includes multiple studies of technology ventures and social enterprises. He also wrote a scholarly book about historic mutinies on seafaring ventures facing radical uncertainty during the Age of Discovery, which was published by Yale University Press.
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