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Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation & Innovation Centre
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
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Professor Noel J. Lindsay

BCom (Hons) PhD (Qld) FCPA

Director, ECIC

Noel Lindsay

Noel Lindsay is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation and Director of the Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation, and Innovation Centre (ECIC), Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide. Noel's background includes both hands-on entrepreneurial and private equity experience as well as academic pursuits.

From a scholarly perspective, his research interests centre on Indigenous and non-Indigenous entrepreneurship. In this regard, he has authored/co-authored a range of papers that focus on opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, personal values, entrepreneurial attitude, private equity finance (business angel and venture capital), cultural influences on entrepreneurship, and family enterprise. As part of his scholarly endeavours, he is involved in a longitudinal research project in South Africa, that focuses on South African Indigenous entrepreneurship. He also is Co-Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor research project in Australia. Noel supervises a number of doctoral students in the entrepreneurship area.

Noel's professional experience includes corporate insolvency and corporate advisory work in the areas of investment readiness and private equity raisings. Noel has extensive entrepreneurial experience in founding and developing a number of growth oriented businesses in Australia, South Africa and Malaysia. He also has venture capital experience having been a director of one of Australia's oldest venture capital firms for a number of years.