{"id":1533,"date":"2019-03-02T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2019-03-02T17:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:39:55","slug":"adam-smith-business-school-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/adam-smith-business-school-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Smith Business School Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">I\u00a0am delighted, and honoured, to have been awarded an Adam Smith Business School prize for PhD excellence in 2018. Up to three prizes are awarded each year on the basis of the excellence and significance of the contribution of the thesis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">I certainly enjoyed carrying out my research into venture capital fund performance and investment practices in Europe and USA, under the excellent supervision of Professor Colin Mason of the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. The findings, which focus on possible reasons for the difference in performance between UK \/ European and USA VC funds,\u00a0have been shared with the BVCA (the professional association for private equity and venture capital in the UK), the ICAEW, the British Business Bank and the European Investment Fund. I am also keen to share the best practices encapsulated in the research with developing economies who are looking to kick-start their own VC ecosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">My thesis is available in the British Library and also at the University of Glasgow here:<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/theses.gla.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Arundale=3AKeith=3A=3A.default.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/theses.gla.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Arundale=3AKeith=3A=3A.default.html<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The other two prizewinners are Dr Karen Bilsland and Dr Melanie Van De Velde.\u00a0Many congratulations to you both!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0am delighted, and honoured, to have been awarded an Adam Smith Business School prize for PhD excellence in 2018. Up to three prizes are awarded each year on the basis of the excellence and significance of the contribution of the thesis.\u00a0 I certainly enjoyed carrying out my research into venture capital fund performance and investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}