Dr Harry Matlay is Professor of Enterprise and Innovation at the University of the West of Scotland Business School, Hamilton Campus. He specialises in Enterprise and Innovation, with a focus on Entrepreneurship Education, Training and Learning. He pioneered research in Stakeholder Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education and has published several articles on this emerging aspect of Enterprise Theory and Practice.

Prior to joining the University of the West of Scotland, he spent 16 years as Professor of Small Business and Enterprise Development at Birmingham City Business School. Before joining academia, he worked in senior positions in industry and commerce, as an entrepreneur and business consultant and at the SME Centre at Warwick University Business School, where he edited the EU SME Observatory and undertook teaching, supervision and various small business related research and consultancy projects.

He is the Editor of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (since 2002), Guest Editor of an annual double special issue in Education and Training (since 2000) and occasional Special Issues on Entrepreneurship Education in the Industry & Higher Education journal (since 2003). He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of several international journals and has refereed articles, books and research monographs for major publishing houses, including Routledge, Sage, Palgrave and Oxford University Press.

He has written, presented and published over 500 refereed journal articles, practitioner features and conference papers and won several prestigious national and international awards. In 2003 he was received the Golden Page Award for Excellence in Publishing in the Research Relevance category for his editorial work on JSBED.

Currently, he is working with colleagues at various universities in the UK and abroad on research linking Entrepreneurship Education to entrepreneurial outcomes and stakeholders‟ expectations in this important area of economic activity.