Roy Thurik is full professor at the Montpellier Business School in France. He is emeritus professor at the Erasmus School of Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and at the Free University of Amsterdam. He is a Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute for Economic Sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management. Moreover, he is Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies (School for Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University) and Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany).

Roy’s research focuses on the role of small firms in markets, the role of business owners in firms, entrepreneurship and well-being, industrial organisation and policy, the consequences and causes of entrepreneurship in economies and biology and behaviour.

His research has been widely published in leading academic journals, including Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Journal of Epidemiology, Genetic Behavior, Regional Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Economics Letters, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Applied Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, European Economic Review, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Economic Psychology, Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, Research Policy, Applied Psychology, Biological Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Annals of Operations Research, Plos One, Plos Genetics, Health Economics, Academy of Management Perspectives, Sustainability, International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Technology Transfer, International Journal of Project Management, etc.

He is (co)-editor of the many books. He is editor of Small Business Economics. He is on the editorial board of many international scientific journals. He consulted with many firms and (international) institutions.