Ronald K. Mitchell is Professor of Entrepreneurship, and holds the Jean Austin Bagley Regents Chair in Management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, where he teaches technology commercialization, organization theory, and entrepreneurship. His research focuses on (1) better understanding the pathways to value creation and renewability, especially where information technology can create the public goods to enable renewable entrepreneurship, and (2) the development of the human and financial capital as individual and organizational capacity for engaging stakeholders to create sustainable opportunity and new value systems.
Ron earned his CPA in 1978 and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1994, winning the Academy of Management's 1995 Heizer Award for his dissertation: "The composition, classification, and creation of new venture formation expertise." Ron publishes and serves in editorial review capacities in the top entrepreneurship and management journals, and was also 2008-2009 Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division. He has co-authored and co-edited a number of books including "Handbook of Entrepreneurial Cognition," which has helped to chart the way forward in entrepreneurial cognition research.