Management School academic receives Atlas Award
Professor Pablo Munoz, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, was recently awarded the Elsevier Atlas Award for his paper entitled “Poverty and the varieties of entrepreneurship in the pursuit of prosperity”.
The Atlas award showcases research that could significantly impact people’s lives around the world, or has already done so. Pablo’s paper, co-authored by colleagues from Newcastle University, was one of ten nominations in the September 2019 category dedicated to Decent Work and Economic Growth.
Nominations were selected, from over 2,500 journals which publish articles across science technology and health, by an international scientific committee.
Professor Pablo Munoz, along with Dr. Jonathan Kimmitt and Dr. Robert Newbery at Newcastle University Business School, commented “This is an important award for us as it celebrates societal impact. The study opens up the concept of entrepreneurship and assumptions around it – what is entrepreneurship really about?
We always think of success as meaning money; if we push back from that idea a little bit and broaden it, it might actually change a lot of assumptions that we make about how we support entrepreneurs and the things that we do to help develop them. We think our research opens new possibilities for how to support entrepreneurship and new ways of understanding its role and function in addressing poverty.”
A representative from Atlas attended the Management School to present the award.