Jeffrey A. Robinson, Ph.D. is an award winning business school professor, international speaker and entrepreneur. Since 2008, he has been a leading faculty member at Rutgers Business School where he is an associate professor of management and entrepreneurship and the Academic Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development. The Center is a unique interdisciplinary venue for innovative thinking and research on entrepreneurial activity and economic development in urban environments.

Through his research, business ownership and community activities he makes direct impacts entrepreneurship and economic development policy and practice in the state of New Jersey and beyond.
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Dr. Robinson is an accomplished scholar. His research specialty can be described as the being at the intersection of business and society. His work addresses community and economic development issues for urban metropolitan areas in the United States and abroad. He has grant funded research projects on high growth oriented African American women entrepreneurs and social innovation. He is the co-editor (with Johanna Mair and Kai Hockerts) of the research volumes Social Entrepreneurship, International Perspectives in Social Entrepreneurship, and Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship. His most recent manuscripts are related to inner city unemployment patterns and nascent social entrepreneurship. In 2007, he was selected as the recipient of the Aspen Institute’s Social Impact Faculty Pioneer Award for his research, service and teaching activities at the intersection of entrepreneurship and society. In 2011, his course, Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, was recognized as a model of Innovative Entrepreneurship Education by the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Robinson is a sought after speaker, author and media commentator recently appearing on Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News, PBS, NJN News, Huff Post Live, NJ Biz, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Dr. Robinson has been on the faculty of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University and Loyola University of Maryland prior to arriving at Rutgers Business. He has been the keynote speaker at international events and conferences in Shanghai, China; Lagos, Nigeria; Moscow, Russia,; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Melbourne, Australia; Moscow, Russia and London, England and has taught or presen