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(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

. He is visiting professor of entrepreneurship at the

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in Finland, newspaper columnist and the creator of the Wales Fast Growth 50, an annual barometer of entrepreneurial firms in Wales.

Professional career

Following a BSc (Hons) in Physics, an MSc in Technical Change and Industrial Strategy from

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, and a PhD in technology entrepreneurship from

, Jones-Evans held postdoctoral posts at

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and

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(as an EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow). At the age of 29, he was appointed chair of entrepreneurship and small business management at the

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in 1996, where he set up the Welsh Enterprise Institute. He has subsequently held academic chairs at the

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and

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. He was Director of the National Entrepreneurship Observatory at

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for the period 2005–2008, Director of Enterprise and Innovation at the

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2008–2013 and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Bristol Business School 2013–17. He has been chair of the

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's postgraduate scholarship programmes, and was formerly a member of the Research, Innovation and Engagement Committee for the Higher Education Funding Council for 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'', ''

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'', ''Small Business Economics'', ''International Small Business Journal'', ''Technovation'' and ''Regional Studies''. Along with Professor Sara Carter, he is the co-author of the textbook ''Enterprise and Small Business''. He has initiated over £40 million of development projects, and has attracted research grants from the

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, the

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, the

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and the

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. One project was the first European transnational research study of the role of universities in technology transfer and spin-off activities in Europe. He has worked as a consultant for the

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, the

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and other economic development bodies, and was the lead author of the Entrepreneurship Action Plan for Wales, the first regional enterprise strategy in the world. He led the

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(GEM) project in Wales for eight years and is currently a member of the "Be The Spark" panel, which has worked with the

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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

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between 2010 and 2014 and led a major review of business finance for the Welsh Government. He was the first chairman of Outlook Expeditions Ltd, and has been a member of the boards of

, the Institute of Small Business and Enterprise, the

, ICE, the Wales Management Council, the

in Wales, Prime Cymru (one of the Prince of Wales' charities) and was Vice-President (UK) for the European Council of Small Business. He is currently chairman of Town Square, which is developing facilities for entrepreneurs in the UK, and a trustee of Fabric, a

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helping homeless young people. Jones-Evans has created number of events to promote and celebrate entrepreneurship in Wales including the Wales Fast Growth 50, the Cardiff Business Awards, Wales Start-Up Awards, and the Wales Legal Awards. He is a weekly columnist since 2004 in the '' Western Mail'' - 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'', and is now a contributor to the online news site Business News Wales.

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'' *Pugh, R., Mackenzie, N. and Jones-Evans, D. (2018) From "Techniums" to "Emptiums": the failure of a flagship innovation policy in Wales, ''Regional Studies'' *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. *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. *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. *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.

Development Bank of Wales

In 2013, he was asked by the

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to undertake a detailed review examining Access to Finance for

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(SMEs) in Wales. The two reports produced by the review criticised the Welsh Government's former investment fund

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

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' Task and Finish Group, which drew up a plan for the creation of this body by the Welsh Government. In May 2015, the

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voted to call "on the Welsh Government to establish a Welsh Development Bank, as recognised in the report published by Professor Dylan Jones-Evans". The DBW was established in 2017.

Richard Burton

Jones-Evans was responsible for starting a campaign in 2011 to raise funding to secure a star for

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on the

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. This was unveiled in

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on St David's Day, 1 March 2013.

Honours

Jones-Evans was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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Footnotes

External links

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