Babson entrepreneurship professor Jeffry Timmons will speak at the University of Rochester October 11 and 12. On Thursday, October 11th, Timmons will speak on “Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset” to graduate students and the local public.
On Friday, October 12, he will address faculty from the Rochester region in a seminar “New Directions in Entrepreneurship Education.”
Jeffry Timmons, the Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, is known internationally for his research, innovative curriculum development, and teaching in entrepreneurship, new ventures, entrepreneurial finance and venture capital.
In 1984, Timmons collaborated with the Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies to launch the Price-Babson College Fellows Program, aimed at improving teaching and research by teaming faculty with highly successful entrepreneurs wishing to teach. Inc. magazine has called him “The Johnny Appleseed of Entrepreneurship Education” and noted that the PBCFP “changed the terrain of entrepreneurship education.”
Timmons served as a charter board member of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in developing and implementing their mission and strategy. He is the creator of and dean of faculty emeritus for the Kauffman Fellows Program. He has provided leadership in developing teaching initiatives that assist Native Americans seeking economic self-determination and community development most notably through entrepreneurship education at the nation’s several Tribal Colleges.
In April 2006, he was appointed Chair, International Academic Steering Committee for National Entrepreneurship, Research Center in the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Timmons has authored several books including the leading textbook New Venture Creation, 7th ed. (2007); Venture Capital at the Crossroads, with Babson colleague William D. Bygrave (1992); and the groundbreaking The Entrepreneurial Mind (1989). He has co-authored Business Plans That Work (2004) and How To Raise Capital: Techniques and Strategies for Financing and Valuing Your Small Business (2005) with Stephen Spinelli and Andrew Zacharakis. He has published more than 100 articles and papers in publications such as Harvard Business Review and Journal of Business Venturing, as well as numerous teaching cases.
