David Deeds is the Schulze Professor of Entrepreneurship and director of the Morrison Center. Prior to coming to St. Thomas, Deeds was a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management and academic director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has held faculty positions at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and the Fox School of Business at Temple University. During his career, he has published numerous articles in management and entrepreneurship journals, including Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management and Research Policy and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, among others. He was awarded the NASDAQ Fellowship in Capital Formation and was a named research fellow at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. In 2007, Deeds was awarded the Haniel Fellowship in Entrepreneurship at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. His current research interests include new venture growth and adaptation, technological discontinuities and technology commercialization. Prior to becoming an academic, Deeds was co-founder and president of LightSpeed Corporation.