Arthur Allan Gibb

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(20 November 1939 – 21 December 2019) was a British academic. He was the founder and former director of the Small Business Centre at

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. Established in 1971 to provide training and education for entrepreneurs, this was the first social enterprise of its kind in Europe.

Biography

Gibb graduated with a degree in Economics from

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in 1961. He spent four years working at the

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before joining

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as a Senior Research Assistant, being promoted successively to Research Fellow, Lecturer, and finally Senior Lecturer in 1980. As a staff candidate he earned his Ph.D. from Durham in 1977. He was appointed to the Chair in Small Business Studies in 1983. Gibb was described in an

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publication as "the doyen of entrepreneurship and small business development academics". In 2009, Gibb co-authored ''Leading the Entrepreneurial University'', together with G. Haskins, P. Hannon and I. Robertson, published by the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education and

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at the

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. Updated in 2012, the publication served as the principal handbook for the Entrepreneurial University Leaders Programme (EULP), launched at Oxford in 2010. Gibb died on 21 December 2019, at the age of 80.

Awards

In 2009, he received the

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for lifetime achievement. In 2012, Gibb was awarded the first European Entrepreneurship Education Award by the Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship in Sweden.

References

External links

*Personal website: http://www.allangibb.com/ Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion (2009) British businesspeople Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion (lifetime achievement) 1939 births Alumni of the University of Manchester Alumni of Durham University Academics of Durham University Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire {{UK-business-bio-1930s-stub 2019 deaths