faculty member

Eli Gimmon is a professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Tel-Hai College in Israel. He received Ph.D. in entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His academic interests emerged from 22 years of field experience, including co-founding two American–Israeli IT companies and managing intra-preneurship at a leading Israeli international electronic corporation. He is a reviewer for several journals such as Research Policy, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Industrial Marketing Management.

New ventures and founders' attributes pedicting survival and growth

Embeddedness of small businesses (Israel, China,Latin Ameruca)

Innovative Finance (IFI) - Erasmus+ project

• Teaching in academic institutions

2001 –                      Tel-Hai College – bachelor’s degree courses

2005-2006                The Open University – master’s degree courses

2007-2008                (Visiting professor) Universidad Austral de Chile – master’ degree courses

2009 –                      Tel-Aviv–Yaffo Academic College – bachelor’s degree courses

2012–2013               Kinneret College, Jordan Valley – bachelor’s degree courses in engineering

• Teaching in non-academic institutions

o   Courses taught in the past five years:

Entrepreneurship; Introduction to business strategy; Strategic management; Business games; Enterprise management; Consumer behavior; Marketing management; International marketing. 

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May 2004           Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship & Manchester Business School. High Technology Small Firms (HTSF) Conference. Venue: University of Twent, Enschede, The Netherlands.

June 2004           Twenty-Fourth Annual Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Venue: Glasgow, Scotland.

June 2005           Twenty-Fourth Annual Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Venue: Boston, MA.

Feb. 2007           Fourth AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange. Venue: Brisbane, Australia.

Apr. 2007           Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovative Management. Venue: The Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel.

Mar. 2008           1st National Entrepreneurship Conference. Venue: The Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Jan. 2009            Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV/EAESP) and the Journal of Business Research. The Third International Conference on Strategic Management in Latin America. Venue: Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Mar. 2009           Conference on Social Policy: Core and Peripheral Regions. Venue: Tel-Hai College.

Sept. 2009          Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group. IMP Conference on B2B (Business-to-Business Marketing). Do inter-firm cooperation and social networks change over time in regional clusters? Venue: Marseille, France.

Dec. 2009           Israel Strategy Conference. The 3rd ISC Conference. What causes radical strategic change in high technology new ventures: Taking investors’ perspective. Venue: Beer Sheva University, Israel.

June 2010           Thirtieth Annual Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Entrepreneurship in peripheral vs. core regions: Lessons from Chile. Venue: Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dec. 2010           Israel Strategy Conference. The 4th ISC Conference on Business Strategy. VCs’ affirmed attitudes and entrepreneurs’ perceptions: Different views on strategic change in new ventures. Venue: The Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Nov. 2011          The 8th Annual NYU-Stern Conference on Social Entrepreneurship. Sustainability: Comparison between social and commercial ventures.  Venue: New York University, New York, NY.

June 2012           32nd Annual Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Venture capitalists’ involvement and the survival of high technology new ventures. Venue: Fort Worth, TX.

Dec. 2012           Israel Strategy Conference. The 5th ISC Conference on Business Strategy. Power or persuasion in board decisions? Venue: Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Jan. 2013            The Multidisciplinary Resilience Research Center. The 1st International MRRC Conference: Individual, Community and National Resilience and Their Inter-Relations. The impact of small businesses on regional development and economic resilience in the periphery. (Hebrew). Venue: Tel-Hai College, Israel.

Apr. 2013           The 15th Conference on New Research of the Galilee. Chair of session: Innovations in the research of caves in the Galilee. Venue: Tel-Hai College, Israel.

Sept. 2013          IMP Conference (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group) on B2B (business to business marketing). Presentation titled: Competitive Advantage in Global Markets: The case of the salmon industry in Chile. Venue: Atlanta, Georgia.

Dec. 2013           Workshop on Social, Health and Economic aspects of Aging. Co-moderator round table on Active Aging. Venue: Tel-Hai, Israel.

March 2014        Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special Conference.  Presented two research studies: (a) Changes in intra-cluster collaboration: Lessons from an export oriented cluster. (b) Innovation and Barriers to Technology Transfer in Medical Centers: A Contextualized Embeddedness Perspective. Venue: Tel-Aviv, Israel.

June 2014           Symposium on Entrepreneurship Training and Pedagogy. Presentation titled: The Effects of Lifestages on Entrepreneurship. Venue: University of Windsor, Ontario Canada.

June 2014           34th Annual Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC). Presentation titled: Employment Growth in New Ventures: Differences Between Core and Peripheral Regions. Venue: London, Ontario, Canada.