Lois Stevenson Prof. Lois Stevenson is Director Economic Framework Policies with Industry Canada, a former Director, Entrepreneurship Development with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and former Director, Policy and Liaison in the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Office of Industry Canada. In 2002, she served as Deputy Executive Director, Industry Canada’s Innovation Secretariat, and led the Practice of Innovation Initiative, profiling highly innovative firms and their CEOs. While working with ACOA, Lois led a number of initiatives geared towards stimulating a stronger entrepreneurship culture in the Atlantic region of Canada. These included negotiation of a partnership with four provincial governments to develop entrepreneurship curriculum for every grade level from Kindergarten to Grade 12; research on young entrepreneurs and the impact of exposure to entrepreneurship in schools to career outcomes; multi-faceted programs to support young entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs; and worked extensively with enterprise centres to provide services to new and small firms. Prior to joining the Government of Canada in 1990, she spent ten years as a university professor teaching and researching in the areas of entrepreneurship and small business management. She has authored (or co-authored) seven books and has over 40 papers published in refereed journals and conference proceedings dealing with women as entrepreneurs, the role of entrepreneurship in economic development and entrepreneurship policy issues. She has completed research and analysis of government policy in favour of entrepreneurship, most recently publishing this work in "Entrepreneurship Policy: Theory and Practice" published by Springer Publishing (2005). Ms. Stevenson is a Past-President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE); a member of the Entrepreneurship Of The Year Institute; a Fellow of the Price-Babson Fellows Program; a Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin; and a Wilford White Fellow. She is a member of the International Reference Council of the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) and during 2000-01 was a visiting researcher with the Foundation leading an international study of entrepreneurship policy. She has been invited to deliver keynote addresses and workshops in many countries around the world, including Australia, Taiwan, Croatia, Brazil, Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Norway and the Netherlands. She has worked in major corporations such as IBM and the Royal Bank and been involved in two of her own businesses. She holds a B.Comm and an MBA from Dalhousie University, Canada and a Master of Philosophy in Management from the University of Bath, UK. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.

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Prof. Lois Stevenson is Director Economic Framework Policies with Industry Canada, a former Director, Entrepreneurship Development with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and former Director, Policy and Liaison in the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Office of Industry Canada. In 2002, she served as Deputy Executive Director, Industry Canada’s Innovation Secretariat, and led the Practice of Innovation Initiative, profiling highly innovative firms and their CEOs. While working with ACOA, Lois led a number of initiatives geared towards stimulating a stronger entrepreneurship culture in the Atlantic region of Canada. These included negotiation of a partnership with four provincial governments to develop entrepreneurship curriculum for every grade level from Kindergarten to Grade 12; research on young entrepreneurs and the impact of exposure to entrepreneurship in schools to career outcomes; multi-faceted programs to support young entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs; and worked extensively with enterprise centres to provide services to new and small firms.

Prior to joining the Government of Canada in 1990, she spent ten years as a university professor teaching and researching in the areas of entrepreneurship and small business management. She has authored (or co-authored) seven books and has over 40 papers published in refereed journals and conference proceedings dealing with women as entrepreneurs, the role of entrepreneurship in economic development and entrepreneurship policy issues. She has completed research and analysis of government policy in favour of entrepreneurship, most recently publishing this work in "Entrepreneurship Policy: Theory and Practice" published by Springer Publishing (2005).

Ms. Stevenson is a Past-President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE); a member of the Entrepreneurship Of The Year Institute; a Fellow of the Price-Babson Fellows Program; a Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin; and a Wilford White Fellow. She is a member of the International Reference Council of the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) and during 2000-01 was a visiting researcher with the Foundation leading an international study of entrepreneurship policy. She has been invited to deliver keynote addresses and workshops in many countries around the world, including Australia, Taiwan, Croatia, Brazil, Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Norway and the Netherlands.

She has worked in major corporations such as IBM and the Royal Bank and been involved in two of her own businesses. She holds a B.Comm and an MBA from Dalhousie University, Canada and a Master of Philosophy in Management from the University of Bath, UK. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.