DAVID RAE is Professor of Business & Enterprise at Lincoln Business School, University of Lincoln, UK. Formerly, he served as Head of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Management at The Derbyshire Business School, UK. He has published extensive research and received international recognition and awards for his research excellence in entrepreneurship. His career has spanned business, consulting and government prior to entering Higher Education in 1996, where he has pioneered entrepreneurial innovation in three universities.

Lincoln Business School Professor David Rae won the Best Paper award for Advancing Entrepreneurship Education at the prestigious 29th Conference of the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, at Cardiff on 1 November. This is the third successive year Professor Rae has won this award, and his sixth consecutive award at a conference for research excellence since 2003. The Role of an Entrepreneurial Learning Team in Creating an Enterprise Culture in a University was co-written with Derby University-based Simon Gee and Rob Moon.