Anthony Paul Buckley BSc (Mgmt.), MA, MBS, PhD A Board level leader with extensive professional managerial experience on both the international and domestic stages. A strategic thinker with strong implementation skills. A lifelong learner who completed his doctoral studies in management as a mature student. His research interests centre broadly on the indigenous enterprise (Entrepreneurship & SME) domain with particular emphasis on the innovation ecosystem and enterprise policy development and evaluation. His research is therefore transdisciplinary and methodologically neutral. Professional Experience Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier St, Dublin 2 Assistant Head, School of Marketing (2006- ) Course Director (14-) – M.Sc (Business & Entrepreneurship) Course Director (15-) – M.Sc. (Sales Management) Course Co-Director (15 -) – International Business & Languages Course Director (09-11) – M.Sc (Business & Entrepreneurship) Course Director (08) – BBS (Irish Aviation Authority) Module Leader – (15- 16 ) - Enterprise Sustainability (Executive MBA) College of Business management representative on the Institute ‘Student Experience’ committee. Lecturer in International marketing and strategy, Strategic management, Change management, Management of Services, Service Quality management, Theory of Entrepreneurship, Marketing Management, Marketing Research, Marketing Logistics, Business-to-Business Marketing, Customer relationship management, Commercialisation of Innovations and Marketing/Sales of technology products, Business and management research methods, consultancy and research methods. In addition to teaching the above subjects I supervised undergraduate, Group and graduate students in their dissertations. I also managed the student consultancy projects on the M.Sc in International Business, Business & Entrepreneurship and Digital Marketing & Analytics. I have also passed the Postgraduate Certificate in Third Level Learning And Teaching producing a comprehensive teaching portfolio. I commenced reading for my PhD in Management at Lancaster University in 2008 and graduated in 2013. Finally I teach or have taught on DIT’s industry programmes with IBEC (EOP and ICT Ireland programmes), Irish Aviation Authority, Dublin Aviation Authority, ICOS, IAPI, Bord Bia, Musgraves, Marketing Institute and Oracle. South Dublin Chamber, Dublin 22 Director of Policy and Training (2006) QMP Publicis Advertising and Marketing Agency, Dublin 2 Senior Account Director (2005) 2004 - 2005 Meteor Mobile Communications, Dublin 24 Head of Marketing 2001 - 2004 Design Factory Ltd, Dublin 1 Head of Business development (Partner designate) Lecturer part –time, Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier St Marketing Institute Graduate courses – Years 2 and 3. 2000 - 2001 Grafton Litho Ltd, Dublin 2 Managing Director of SME - which I was planning to acquire 1997-2000 Glen Dimplex Group, Dunleer, Co. Louth 1998 - 2000 Chief Executive Officer, Glen Dimplex Exports 1997 - 1998 Director of Group Exports 1995-1997 Nissan Ireland Limited, Dublin 12 1996 - 1997 Director of Marketing 1995- 1996 Group Marketing Manager 1985–1995 The Irish Trade Board, Dublin 4 1993 -1995 Senior Marketing Adviser to the Software, Telecomms, Process Controls, Computer Hardware and Security Industries. 1988 -1993 Industrial Products Manager, New York Office. Responsible for assisting Irish Electronics, Software and Engineering Companies research and market their products/services in the US and Canadian markets. 1985 - 1988 Marketing Adviser in Consumer Products Department for Furniture, Hardware, D.I.Y., Giftware and Housewares sectors. 1984-1985 Hardwood Door Designs, Midleton, Co. Cork Marketing and sales executive – UK and Ireland Education and Qualifications: 2013 - 2014 Post Graduate - Awarded a teaching fellowship for the College of Business to research entrepreneurship education learning outcomes 2008 - 2013 Post Graduate PhD in Management from Lancaster University, UK – Rated top postgraduate business school in UK (2012). 2007 - 2008 Post Graduate Postgraduate Certificate in Third Level Learning and Teaching – Passed. Comprehensive Teaching portfolio produced 1986 - 1988 Post Graduate: Master of Business Studies (M.B.S) International Marketing University College Dublin Master of Arts (M.A.) Trinity College Dublin 1979 – 1983 Under Graduate: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc in Management) Trinity College Dublin Diploma in Business Studies (Dip BS) Dublin Institute of Technology Publications, Peer-reviewed journal articles, Peer-reviewed Conference Papers, Conference Presentations and Awards Buckley, AP (2013). Indigenous Firm Performance in a Small Late Developing State: A Case Study of the Role & Contribution of Public Venture Capital in Ireland, Unpublished PhD Thesis. Lancaster University, UK. Buckley, AP (2014). Evaluating the role and contribution of Public Venture Capital to indigenous firm growth in the smaller state – A Contribution Analysis. 11th European Evaluation Society (EES) Biennial Conference. Evaluation for an Equitable Society. Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland 1-3 October, 2014. Best Paper Award (Ist Prize). Buckley, AP (2014).Towards Entrepreneurship Learning Outcomes in Business Education and Beyond: Next Practice? Design and Guidance" (2014). Teaching Fellowships. Paper 45. http://arrow.dit.ie/fellow/45.Teaching Fellow Award 2013-14, College of Business. Buckley, AP (2014). The role & contribution of Public Venture Capital. 59th International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Entrepreneurship Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 11th-14th. Buckley, AP (2015). Using Sequential Mixed Methods in Enterprise Policy Instrument Evaluation – The Pragmatic Design Choice? European Conference for Research Methods in business and Management (ECRM), Malta, June 11th-13th. http://academic-bookshop.com/ourshop/prod_3881656-ECRM-2015-14th-European-Conference-on-Research-Methodology-for-Business-and-Management-Studies-Valletta-Malta-ISBN-9781910810118.html Buckley, AP (2015). Beyond Beautiful. Pulling Together or Pulling Apart: Identity and Nationhood in Spain, Europe, and the West Conference. Department of Hispanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin, June 25th-27th Buckley, AP & Mooney, E (2015). The Bald Barista Case Study. 60th International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Entrepreneurship Conference, Dubai, UAE, June 6th- 9th Buckley, AP (2015). Developing Entrepreneurship learning outcomes in Business education and beyond – Pedagogical implications. 10th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE), Genoa, Italy, September 17th – 18th. http://academic-bookshop.com/ourshop/prod_4014001-ECIE-2015-10th-European-Conference-on-Innovation-and-Entrepreneurship-Genoa-Italy-ISBN-9781910810491-ISSN-20491050.html Mooney, E & Buckley, AP (2015). Growth through Recession: A Case Study on the growth of a Boutique Coffee House Group in Ireland. 28th Irish Accounting & Finance Association (IAFA) Annual Conference, 14th-15th May 2015 Quinton, S. Kidney, E, Buckley, AP, Canhoto, A., Mollino, A, Pera, S., & Budhathoki, T. (2015) Exploring the Digital Orientation of SMEs in Ireland. International Conference of Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE). Dubai, October 19th – 22nd. Buckley, AP & Davis, S (2015). Evaluating the contribution of start-up incubators’ to firm growth and performance. Micro, Institutional and Practice Perspectives of Technology Transfer. Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference. October 28th- 30th, College of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Buckley, AP (2015) Using sequential mixed methods in enterprise policy evaluation. Special Mixed Methods Edition. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods. Available online (December 2015): http://www.ejbrm.com/main.html Mooney, E & Buckley, AP (2015). The Bald Barista Case Study. Case reference No. 815-108-1. TEACHING NOTE: Reference No. 815-108-8. The Case Centre. Available online at: http://www.thecasecentre.org Buckley AP (2016). Using Contribution Analysis to evaluate small & medium enterprise support policy. Evaluation Vol. 22(2): 129-148 Buckley AP & Kisito Futonge Nzembayie (2016). Teacherpreneurs – From vocation to innovation. 4th International Conference for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ICIE). Toronto, April 27th – 29th. Buckley, AP & Davis, S (2016). Evaluating the Contribution of Technology Start-up Incubators – Exploring Methodological and Data-related Conundrums. 13th European Conference for Research Methods in business and management (ECRM). London, June 9th- 10th. Buckley, AP (2016). The role and importance of entrepreneurship for growth in the smaller state and policy-autonomous region. 9th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD). Bucharest, 23rd-24th June. Buckley, AP & Davis, S (2016). Publically–funded Technology Start-up incubators – evaluating their role and contribution. 12th European Evaluation Society (EES) Biennial Conference. Maastricht, Holland, 28th-30th September. Buckley, AP (2016). On Becoming a Knowledge Economy – The Curious Case of Industrial policy development in the Smaller Late Developing State. Triple Helix Association annual Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, 25th - 27th September. Buckley, AP (2017). Evaluating SME performance and State support. Skillnets Conference, Dublin, 30th May. Buckley, AP, Flanagan, T & O’Reilly, P (2017). DIT Hothouse – Incubation in Action. Good practice cases. University-Industry Interaction Conference (UIIN), Dublin, Ireland, 7th - 9th June. Buckley, AP (2017). University-based Start-up Incubators – Value Coproduction in Practice? 10th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD). (Pending). Thessaloniki, Greece, 31st Aug – 1st Sept. See a selection of my work on the DIT repository: http://arrow.dit.ie/fellow/45/ Workshops Buckley, A.P, Jameson, J & O’Donnell, P (2015). HEInnovate: a Framework and a Tool for Creation of Entrepreneurial Universities. Higher Education in Transformation Symposium 2015, Workshop 8, College of Business, DIT, Dublin, 30th March. www.HigherEducationinTransformation.com AKAM (Association for Key Account Management) workshop (2017) (Organised). Senior leadership and KAM. DIT, Dublin, March 30th. Conference Chair 16th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business & Management (ECRM), DIT, 22-23rd June 2017. Conference Session Chair (Invited) ICSB 2014 (Dublin) ICSB 2015 (Dubai) ECRM 2015 (Malta) ECIE 2015 (Genoa) Technology Transfer Society 2015 (Dublin) ICIE 2016 (Toronto) ICEIRD 2017 (Thessaloniki) Academic Conference Organising Committee Member Local organising Committee member – ICSB – World Conference on Entrepreneurship, Dublin, June 11th – 14th, 2014 Academic Conference Scientific Committee Member 9th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD), 23rd – 24th June 2016. http://iceird2016.com/scientific-committee/ 10th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD), Aug, 2017. http://iceird.eu/2017/scientific-committee/ Internal Examiner – PhD DIT July 2015. Mohamed AF Rageb – The Mink Framework: An integrated framework to assess individual knowledge in organisational context. External examiner: Professor J-C. Spender School Review (2016) Chair of ‘Industry & external engagement’ review group Academic Supervisory Experience Supervised over fifty Masters level dissertations to completion to date PhD student – Kisito Futonge Nzembazie (2016) PhD student on Enterprise Fiosraigh with Corning INC. (2017) International Teaching Experience 2012 - ITS, Cairo, Egypt – Innovation Management module 2015 - Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan; Masters in Engineering – Innovation and Technology Management module Business Plan Assessor Academic assessor of business plans on the International Selling Programme for Enterprise Ireland/DIT programme (2014 - )

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