Distinguished Professor
Bio
A Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management Policy, he earned his Master’s in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences from Northwestern University and an MBA and Ph.D. in Business Administration from the George Washington University. He has been a visiting faculty at several universities including University of Maryland, Osnabruck University in Germany and LUMS in Pakistan.
Mian is the first scholar who highlighted the prominent role of modern entrepreneurial universities in supporting knowledge/technology-based entrepreneurship by promoting startup ecosystems with the help of business incubation and acceleration mechanisms. Building on his early doctoral work on university business incubators (1992), he continued to study entrepreneurial universities and business incubation programs in North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico), Western Europe, South America and Asia over the last 32 years.
He was ranked both by the Journal of Technology Transfer (2018) and the Journal of Business Research (2016) as the most productive scholar with highest worldwide impact (measured in citations of his published work) on technology business incubation and acceleration. Besides studying business incubation and the emerging role of entrepreneurial universities, he has worked in the areas of entrepreneurship education for engineers and scientists, student startups and entrepreneurship networks. As head and a PI in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Program 2010-14, he led three national studies.
The author of four recent scholarly books, Professor Mian has published in various prominent journals such as: Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, International Journal of Small Business, Journal of Technology Transfer, R&D Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technovation, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Project Management Journal, among others. Dr. Mian has guest edited several special issues for Technovation, Small Business Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, International Journal of Small Business, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change over the past 10 years.
He served the Academy of Management and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) in various elected capacities (division chair, executive member, newsletter editor) and was an Associate Editor of Journal of Small Business Management. Dr. Mian has consulted with governmental and international research and academic organizations including OECD (Science, Technology & Innovation and Entrepreneurship Divisions), U.S. (USAID, NYS), Sweden (VINNOVA), Germany (IFMOS), Pakistan (HEC, LUMS, IBA), Mexico (El Collegio de Mexico), Canada (IDRC) and others.