Biography
Roy Thurik is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics at the Montpellier Business School in France. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam and the Free University in Amsterdam. He is a Research Fellow at two renowned Dutch research schools: the Tinbergen Institute for Economic Sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management. He is director of the Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics and the ÃÀÅ®¸£ÀûµçÓ°ÔºÎçÒ¹ Institute for Biology and Behavior.
Roy's research focuses on the role of small firms in markets, the role of business owners in firms, industrial organisation and policy, nascent entrepreneurship and the consequences and causes of entrepreneurship in economies. Recently he moved to the field of health, biology and behaviour. His research has been published in more than two hundred articles in leading international academic journals. He consulted widely for commercial and public organisations.
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- Jinia Mukerjee, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès & Peter van der Zwan (2026) - - International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 32 (5), 1-32 - doi: -
- Marcus T. Wolfe, Jon C. Carr, Nada Rejeb, Ute Stephan, Roy Thurik & Olivier Torrès (2026) - - International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 32 (5), 1109-1123 - doi: -
- Mathieu Le Moal, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès & Guillaume Soenen (2026) - - Small Business Economics, 66 (1), 27-48 - doi: -
- Roderick Udo, Ellen Loots, Roy Thurik & Lex van Teeffelen (2025) - - International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 21 (1) - doi: -
- Ingrid Verheul, Roy Thurik & Jinia Mukerjee (2025) - - International Review of Entrepreneurship, 59-88 -
- Jinia Mukerjee, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès & Annelot Wismans (2024) - - Management Review Quarterly, 74 (4), 2443-2476 - doi: -
- Mathieu Le Moal, Roy Thurik & Olivier Torrès (2024) - - Frontiers in Psychology, 15 - doi: -
- Annelot Wismans, Pauline Jansen, Roy Thurik, Peter Prinzie & Ingmar Franken (2024) - - Applied Psychology, 73 (4), 2021-2046 - doi: -
- Marie Madeleine Meurer, Maksim Belitski, Christian Fisch & Roy Thurik (2024) - - Small Business Economics, 63 (3), 1139-1170 - doi: -
- Mark Sanders, Erik Stam & Roy Thurik (2024) - - doi: -
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Radio London is closing down (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Determinants of entrepreneurship and psychiatric scales : ADHD and entrepreneurial orientation (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - The future of entrepreneurship research (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Introduction and the tunnel effect revisited (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - The international Guesss project (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Motieven achter ondernemerschap (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Roy Thurik (2014) - Behavior and biomarkers: in search of the entrepreneurial gene (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Entrepreneurial motivation (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Roy Thurik (2014) - Ondernemerschapsonderzoek en de EUR (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
