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Шаблон:Use British English Arthur Allan Gibb OBE (1939–2019), was a British academic. He was the founder and former director of the Small Business Centre at Durham University. Established in 1971 to provide training and education for entrepreneurs, this was the first social enterprise of its kind in Europe.[1]

Biography

Gibb graduated with a degree in Economics from Manchester University in 1961.[2] He spent four years working at the Economist Intelligence Unit before joining Durham University Business School as a Senior Research Assistant, being promoted successively to Research Fellow, Lecturer, and finally Senior Lecturer in 1980.[2] As a staff candidate he earned his Ph.D. from Durham in 1977.[2] He was appointed to the Chair in Small Business Studies in 1983.[2]

Gibb was described in an OECD publication as "the doyen of entrepreneurship and small business development academics".[3] In 2009, Gibb co-authored Leading the Entrepreneurial University,[4] together with G. Haskins, P. Hannon and I. Robertson, published by the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education and Said Business School at the University of Oxford. Updated in 2012, the publication served as the principal handbook for the Entrepreneurial University Leaders Programme (EULP), launched at Oxford in 2010.

Awards

In 2009, he received the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion for lifetime achievement.[5] In 2012, Gibb was awarded the first European Entrepreneurship Education Award by the Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship in Sweden.[6]

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  3. David Grayson, "Entrepreneurship advice, training and mentoring for urban renewal: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Europe", in OECD, Local Economic and Employment Development Entrepreneurship: A Catalyst for Urban Regeneration (OECD Publishing, 2004), p. 131. Accessed 22 November 2015.
  4. Allan Gibb, Gay Haskins, Paul Hannon "Leading the Entrepreneurial University", Said Business School, Oxford, and National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE), Coventry, 2009, updated 2012
  5. Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion, London Gazette, Tuesday 21 April 2009, Supplement no. 1, J5.
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