Nicholas Edward Williams is an entrepreneurship and economic development scholar at the University of Leeds Business School where he is Professor in Enterprise. He is based at the Centre Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies where he is Director of the Research in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies (REES) group. Williams' research interests centre on

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneu ...

and

economic development In economics, economic development (or economic and social development) is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and object ...

, including entrepreneurship in crisis economies, new born states and

transition countries A transition economy or transitional economy is an economy which is changing from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. Transition economies undergo a set of structural transformations intended to develop market-based institutions. T ...

. He is also interested in enterprise policy and economic resilience.

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