Edward j. Malecki

Venture Capital Research Program, Center for Entrepreneurship, Fisher College of Business, the Ohio State University, 2005-2008.

Center for Urban and Regional Analysis Oversight Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Science, The Ohio State University, 2005-2009.

Faculty Leadership Committee, Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, 2006-2008; also Subcommittee on Awards, 2007.

Policy Day Review Committee, John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, The Ohio State University, 2005.

Search Committee, C. William Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, 2005.

Chair, Ad Hoc Promotion and Tenure Committee for the School of Public Policy and Management, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State University, 2005.

Promotion and Tenure Advisory Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State University, 2004-2007.

University Fellowship Committee, Graduate School, The Ohio State University, 2004-2005.

Advisory Committee, Initiative on Population Research, The Ohio State University, 2004-2005.

Committee to Review the Outreach and Engagement Initiative, Office of Academic Affairs, The Ohio State University, 2003.

University District Committee, The Ohio State University, 2001-2005.

Personnel Committee, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 2001-2004.

Economic Development Database Committee, Office of Outreach and Engagement, The Ohio State University, 2001-2003.

Curriculum Committee, Department of Geography, University of Florida, 2001.

Faculty Merit Pay Committee, Department of Geography, University of Florida, 1999 and 2001.

Tenure and Promotion Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 1998-2000.

CLAS Research Awards Social and Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 1999-2001.

Faculty Mentoring Awards Committee, Graduate School, University of Florida, 1998.

Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Geography, University of Florida, 1996-1998.

Sabbatical Selection Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 1997-1998.

External Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Department of Geography, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1994-1995.

Search Committee, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Office of Research and Graduate Education, University of Florida, 1994.

Graduate Council, University of Florida, 1991-1994.

International Studies Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 1991-2001.

O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 1990-1992.

University Senate, University of Florida, 1988-1990 and 1997-1999.

Search Committee for Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 1989.

Search Committee for Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, 1989.

Tenure and Promotion Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Science, University of Florida, 1987-1988.

Computing Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 1986-1989.

Central Science Library Advisory Committee, University Libraries, University of Florida, 1985-1989.

Library Representative, Department of Geography, University of Florida, 1983-2001.

Graduate Coordinator, Department of Geography, University of Florida, May 1986-June 1988.

Graduate Committee, Department of Geography, University of Florida, 1983-1985 and 1986-1999.

Faculty and Staff Search Committees, Department of Geography, University of Florida, 1984-1985 and 1986.

Urban Studies Committee (Chair), College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, 1978-1983.

Committee A (Executive Committee), Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1978-1981 and 1982-1983.

Committee on Geosciences Undergraduate Requirements, College of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, 1982-1983.

Library Representative, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1979-1983.

Social Sciences Subcommittee, OU Associates Research/Creative Activity Funds Award Committee, University Research Council, University of Oklahoma, 1980-1981.

Organizer of Research Seminar Series, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1979-1981.

Graduate Program Committee, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1975-1981.

Search Committees, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1978-1980.

Ad Hoc Committee of the Graduate Faculty to Evaluate Doctor of Public Administration Degree Proposal, Graduate College, University of Oklahoma, 1980.

Fulbright-Hays Campus Screening Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, 1980.

Urban Studies Program Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, 1976-1977.

Professional Service:
Scientific Committee, International Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Beijing, China, 2015-2016.

Assessment committee for a professor within the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics, Copenhagen Business School, 2011.

Expert evaluation committee for a professor in economic geography, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden, 2009.

‘Overall contribution’ Prize Committee, Regional Studies Association, since 2008.

Elected member, Honors Committee, Association of American Geographers, 2007-2009.

Advisory Board, Knowledge and Space Symposia, Heidelberg, Germany, since 2005.

Member, Executive Committee, Geographical Analysis: An International Journal of Theoretical Geography, since 2002.

Advisory Group, Program Evaluation of the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, Rural Policy Research Institute, 2006-2008.

Judge, Dissertation Competition, Economic Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 2003.

External Consultant, Department of Geography Program Review, University of Alabama, 2001.

External Reviewer, Department of Geography Review, East Carolina University, 2000.

Review Committee, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Southern Regional Science Association, February 1999.

Member, Review Panel, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Program, Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation, November 1996-May 1998.

Member of Assessment Panel for Professorship in Economic Geography, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, 1998.

Vice Chair, Commission on the Organization of Industrial Space, International Geographical Union, 1992-1998.

External Reviewer, Department of Geography, University of New Orleans, 1996.

Judge, Dissertation Competition, Industrial Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 1993.

Local Organizer, 1992 Conference of the Commission on Industrial Change, International Geographical Union, Howey-in-the-Hills (Orlando), FL, August 1992.

Nominating Committee member (elected), Association of American Geographers, 1992.

Full Member, Commission on Industrial Change, International Geographical Union, 1988-1992.

Program Committee, 1991 Annual Meeting in Miami, Florida, Association of American Geographers.

Member, Florida Geographic Alliance, 1988-2001.

Chair, Industrial Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 1986-1988; Vice-Chair, 1984-1986; Board member and Secretary-Treasurer, 1981-1983.

Program Chair, Annual Meeting of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, Oklahoma City, 1983.

Program Committee, 1982 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Association of American Geographers, 1981-1982.

Judge, Regional Science Dissertation Competition, Regional Science Association, 1981.

Task Force on Diffusion of Energy-Conserving Innovations in Industry, Association of American Geographers, 1978.
Reviewer of article manuscripts for the following journals:

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Annals of Regional Science, Asia Pacific Business Review, Canadian Geographer, Cities, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Demography, Economic Development Quarterly, Economic Geography, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, European Planning Studies, Florida Geographer, GeoCarrefour – Revue de Géographie de Lyon, Geoforum, Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography, Geographical Analysis, GeoJournal, Growth and Change, The Industrial Geographer, Industrial Relations, International Journal of Technology Management, International Regional Science Review, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of the Community Development Society, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Planning Literature, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Research in Rural Education, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, Papers in Regional Science, Papers of the Regional Science Association, Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences, Professional Geographer, Regional Science Perspectives, Regional Studies, Research Policy, Review of International Political Economy, Review of Regional Studies, Rural Sociology, Scientometrics, Small Business Economics, The Social Science Journal, Southeastern Geographer, State and Local Government Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, Technovation, Telecommunications Policy, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Social Geografie, Urban Affairs Review, Urban Geography, Urban Studies.
External examiner for:
PhD. Thesis, School of Geosciences, University of Utrecht, 2009.

Ph.D. thesis, London Business School, University of London, 2005.

Ph.D. thesis, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002

Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Tasmania, Australia, 1988.

Reviewer of book manuscripts for:

Academic Press

Cambridge University Press

Center for Urban Policy Research Press

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Longman

Oxford University Press

Prentice Hall

Routledge

Stanford University Press

John Wiley and Sons
Reviewer of research proposals for:

Center for Economic Studies, US Bureau of the Census

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

National Science Foundation, Economics Program

National Science Foundation, Geography-Regional Science Program

National Science Foundation, Division of Policy Research and Analysis

National Science Foundation, Small Business Innovation Research Program

National Science Foundation, Sociology Program

National Science Foundation, Division of International Programs

NWO – Netherlands Scientific Organization for Scientific Research

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University

PAPERS PRESENTED
“Entrepreneurship, ecosystems, and environments,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, April 2017.

“Entrepreneurial ecosystems: environments and infrastructures for entrepreneurship,” presented at the 19th Uddevalla Symposium 2016 on Geography, Open Innovation, Diversity and Entrepreneurship, London, June 30, 2016.

“Comments on three papers,” invited presentation at the Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference, Kansas City, MO, October 2015.

“Innovation: The Core of Economic Competitiveness,” presented at the Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, Piacenza, Italy, May 2015.

“Geographies of Innovation: Global, Local, and Virtual,” invited presentation to the Department of Geography, Central Michigan University, April 2015.

“Comments on User Entrepreneurship: Defining and Identifying an Explicit Type of Innovation, by David Freshwater and Timothy Wojan,” presented at the 61st Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Bethesda, MD, November 2014.

“The Local, Global, and Virtual Geographies of Innovation,” presented to the Innovation and Governance Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, October 2014.

“Real people, virtual places, and the spaces in between,” presented at the Tinbergen Institute workshop Real People in Virtual Space, Amsterdam, May 2014.

“Hub Cities in the Evolving Internet: Global Location Strategies of Four Firms,” presented at the International Research Seminar on Metropolitan Developments, VU University and Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, January 27, 2014.

“The Internet as a Platform for Innovation,” presented at the 2nd Geography of Innovation Conference, Utrecht, January 2014.

Edward J. Malecki and Ben Spigel, Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” presented at the 60th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Atlanta, November 2013.

“The Internet: Issues of Production, Consumption, and Governance,” presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, May-June 2013.

“The Internet: produced, consumed, governed,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 2013.

“Connecting the Fragments: Looking at the Connected City in 2050,” Invited paper presented in special session, “The New Urban World: A Place 4 All” at the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, August 2012

“Innovation and Regional Development: Theory, Empirics, and Policy,” presented at the International Tinbergen Institute Workshop 2012 Amsterdam, on Regional and Urban Growth: Creative Minds and Commercial Spirits, May 7-8, 2012.

“Universities and Local Development: Knowledge Flows and Entrepreneurship,” invited presentation at the Seminar, Enterprise and the Third Mission, The Third Mission and the Contemporary University Seminar Series, Manchester, UK, March 2012.

“Geographies of Knowledge Production and Innovation,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February 2012.

Michael A. Niedzielski and Edward J. Malecki, “Transportation as an Urban Amenity: The Growth of Metros in World Cities,” presented at the 58th annual meetings of the North American Regional Science Association International, Miami, November 2011.

“National and Regional Competitiveness: Systems of Innovation,” invited presentation at the Glenn Colloquium series, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State University, October 2011.

“Clouds in Boxes,” presented at a CURA Interdisciplinary Research Briefing on Social Media & IT Technologies, Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, August 2011.

“Clouds in Boxes: The Infrastructure of the New Internet,” presented at the Third Global Conference on Economic Geography, Seoul, June 28-July 2, 2011.

“Hub Cities in the Network of Networks: Agglomeration in the Evolving Internet,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April 2011.

“National and Regional Competitiveness: Systems of Innovation,” invited presentation at the CASIC Research Summit, Competing in the New Innovation-Driven Global Economy, Chicago, April 2011.

Alessandra Faggian, Mark D. Partridge, and Ed Malecki, “Creating an Environment for Economic Growth: Human Capital, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in the USA,” presented at the 57^th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Denver, November 2010.

Edward J. Malecki and Michael Niedzielski, “Transportation as an Urban Amenity: The Growth of Metros in World Cities,” presented at the IGU Conference on the Dynamics of Economic Space, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, July 2010.

Michael A. Niedzielski and Edward J. Malecki, “Making racks: Rail networks in world cities,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 2010.

“Internet networks of world cities: Agglomeration and dispersion,” presented at the 56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Francisco, November 2009.

“Geographical Environments for Entrepreneurship: Improving Local Environments for Entrepreneurs,” Fourth Annual Howard A. Stafford Lecture in Economic Geography, University of Cincinnati, May 2009.

“Everywhere? The Geography of Knowledge,” presented at the Journal of Regional Science 50th Anniversary Symposium, at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, April 2009.

Päivi Oinas and Edward J. Malecki, “Paths of Innovation in Space and Time,” presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, March 2009.

“Technology Clusters: The Role of Entrepreneurship,” presented at the workshop, Spatial Variations in Entrepreneurship, held at the University of Utrecht, 26-27 February 2009.

“Geographical Environments for Entrepreneurship,” invited presentation to Master class at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 2009.

“Global Knowledge and Creativity: New Challenges for Firms, Workers and Regions,” invited seminar presentation, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2008.

“The Rural Digital Economy: Competition and the Geography of Telecommunications,” invited keynote presentation at the Workshop on Broadband in the Post-Modern Economy, Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, September 2008.

Michael C. Ewers and Edward J. Malecki, “Megaproject: A Four Decade Perspective on the Arab Gulf Development Model,” presented at the conference, Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects, Lexington, Kentucky, July 2008.

Michael C. Ewers and Edward J. Malecki, “Leapfrogging into the knowledge economy: assessing the economic development strategies of the Gulf States,” invited presentation at the Tinbergen Institute workshop 2008: Human Capital, Social Capital and Creative Capital as Sources of Regional Growth, Amsterdam, 30 June-1 July 2008.

“Creativity: Who, When, Where?” invited presentation at the Interdisciplinary Symposium on ‘Knowledge and Economy’, Heidelberg, Germany, 25-28 June 2008.

Michael C. Ewers, Edward J. Malecki and Joshua F. Myers, “Foreign Participants in Middle East Growth: A New Economic Landscape,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008.

Bruno Moriset and Edward J. Malecki, “Organization vs Space: The Paradoxical Geographies of the Digital Economy,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008.

“Geographical Environments for Entrepreneurship,” presentation to the Business Builders Club, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, February 26 2008.

“Regional Social Capital: Why It Matters,” presented at the North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Savannah, November.

“Social Capital: How It Works and Why It Matters,” invited colloquium at the University of Akron, Department of Geography and Planning, October 2007.

“Regional Social Capital: Why It Matters,” invited presentation at the Seminar: The Learning Region Comes of Age? Tilburg University, The Netherlands, June 2007.

“Social Capital in a Regional Context,” invited presentation at the Conference on The Future of European Regions, Warsaw, Poland, May 31-June 2, 2007.

“The Future of European Regions: A View from across the Atlantic,” presentation at the Conference on The Future of European Regions, Warsaw, Poland, May 31-June 2, 2007.

“China and India in the World Economy,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.

“Geographical Environments for Entrepreneurship,” invited keynote address at the 5th Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) “Entrepreneurship and the Region”, Montpellier, France, February 27-March 2, 2007.

“Entrepreneurs: Lives and Livelihoods,” Remarks at the Conference on Exploring Rural Entrepreneurship: Imperatives and Opportunities for Research, Washington, DC, October 2006. [online at: http://www.energizingentrepreneurs.org/content/cr_9/2_000219.pdf]

“Global Knowledge and Creativity: New Challenges for Firms, Workers and Regions,” invited presentation at the Seminar on Embedding Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Regional Development, Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK, July 2006.

“Building Entrepreneurial Skills,” presented at the 2006 Barnett Symposium: Creative Enterprise and Public Value: From Ideas to Action, Columbus, OH, May 2006.

E.J. Malecki and H. Wei, “A Wired World: The Geography of Submarine Cables,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 2006.

“Connecting the Dots: Global Communications and Development Shifts since 1979,” invited presentation to the Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, February 2006.

Sudhir K. Thakur and Edward J. Malecki, “Location Patterns of Research and Development (R&D) in India, presented at the North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association, Las Vegas, November 2005.

“How Can Higher Education Institutes Promote Innovation in Local SMEs?” presented at the OECD Conference on ‘Fostering Entrepreneurship: The Role of Higher Education’ in Trento, Italy, 23-24 June 2005.

“Still on Top? Knowledge and Innovation Policy in the USA,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, April 2005.

“Creative Regions and Mobile Firms in a Global Economy,” invited presentation at the World Conference on Science and Technology Parks, Bergamo, Italy, September 2004, in the plenary session, Why are “attractive regions” attractive today?: Elements of attractiveness in the Knowledge Economy.

“Still on Top? Knowledge and Innovation Policy in the USA,” invited presentation at the Conference ‘Mind the GaP’, Workshop 7- Mind the Knowledge and Innovation GaP, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2004.

“Cities and Regions Competing in the Global Economy: Networks, Knowledge and Local Development Policies,” presented at the Tinbergen Institute workshop ‘Regions in Action: The Nexus of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy’, Amsterdam, May 2004.

“Technology, Knowledge, and Jobs,” panelist presentation in the sessions, Economic Geography – Then, Now and the Future, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March 2004.

With Zoltan J. Acs, “Entrepreneurship in Rural America: The Big Picture,” presented at the Conference, Main Streets of Tomorrow: Growing and Financing Rural Entrepreneurs, the Center for the Study of Rural America, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, April 2003.