Professor Dylan Jones-EvansOBEPhDFRSA (born 16 May 1966) was born in Bangor, Gwynedd and brought up in Pwllheli on the Llyn Peninsula. He is currently Assistant Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise) and the chair in entrepreneurship at the University of South Wales. He is visiting professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Turku in Finland, newspaper columnist and the creator of the Wales Fast Growth 50, an annual barometer of entrepreneurial firms in Wales.
Jones-Evans has published over 100 articles within edited books, academic conference proceedings and refereed journals, including the Journal of Economic Geography, R&D Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics, International Small Business Journal, Technovation and Regional Studies.[citation needed] Along with Professor Sara Carter, he is the co-author of the textbook Enterprise and Small Business.[1]
He has initiated over £40million of development projects,[citation needed] and has attracted research grants from the ESRC, the European Commission, the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation.[citation needed] One project was the first European transnational research study of the role of universities in technology transfer and spin-off activities in Europe.[2]
He has worked as a consultant for the OECD, the European Union and other economic development bodies[which?], and was the lead author of the Entrepreneurship Action Plan for Wales,[3] the first regional enterprise strategy in the world.[which?] He led the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project in Wales for eight years and is currently a member of the "Be The Spark" panel,[4] which has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop an entrepreneurship strategy for Wales on behalf of the Welsh Government. He also served as a member of the Business Advisory Panel for the Secretary of State for Wales between 2010 and 2014 and led a major review of business finance for the Welsh Government.[5]
He is currently chairman of Town Square,[6] which is developing facilities for entrepreneurs in the UK, and a trustee of Fabric, a social enterprise in Swansea helping homeless young people.[7]
Jones-Evans has created number of events to promote and celebrate entrepreneurship in Wales including the Wales Fast Growth 50,[8] the Cardiff Business Awards, Wales Start-Up Awards,[9] and the Wales Legal Awards.[10] He is a weekly columnist since 2004 in the Western Mail[11] - where he compiles the annual lists of the Top 300 firms in Wales and the Wales Fast Growth 50 list of the fastest growing Welsh businesses - and the Daily Post,[12] and is now a contributor to the online news site Business News Wales.[13]
Recent journal publications
Klofsten, M., Jones-Evans, D. & Pereira, L. (2020) Teaching science and technology PhD students in entrepreneurship-potential learning opportunities and outcomes, Journal of Technology Transfer[14]
Pugh, R., Mackenzie, N. and Jones-Evans, D. (2018) From "Techniums" to "Emptiums": the failure of a flagship innovation policy in Wales, Regional Studies[15]
Zhao, T. and Jones-Evans, D. (2017) SMEs, banks and the spatial differentiation of access to finance, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol 17 (4), pp.791–824.[16]
Rhisiart, M. and Jones-Evans, D. (2016) The impact of foresight on entrepreneurship: The Wales 2010 case study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 102, pp.112–119.[17]
Zhang, Q., MacKenzie, N., Jones-Evans, D. and Huggins, R. (2016) Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset?: The intensity, performance and structure of entrepreneurial universities and their regional knowledge networks, Small Business Economics, Vol. 47 (3). pp.657–675.[18]
Jones-Evans, D. (2015) Access to finance to SMEs at a regional level: the case of Finance Wales, Venture Capital – an International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Vol. 17 (1-2), pp.27–41.[19]
Development Bank of Wales
In 2013, he was asked by the Welsh Government to undertake a detailed review examining Access to Finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Wales. The two reports[20][21] produced by the review criticised the Welsh Government's former investment fund Finance Wales as being unfit for purpose, mainly because of the high interest rates charged to businesses and the unwillingness to consider using state aid rules to make finance affordable to Welsh firms. He recommended the creation of a new Development Bank to support funding for Welsh SMEs. He was subsequently appointed chair of the Development Bank of Wales' Task and Finish Group, which drew up a plan for the creation of this body by the Welsh Government. In May 2015, the National Assembly for Wales voted to call "on the Welsh Government to establish a Welsh Development Bank, as recognised in the report published by Professor Dylan Jones-Evans".[22] The DBW was established in 2017.
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