Elizabeth Gatewood, PhD

Emeritus Research Professor
gatewoej@wfu.edu

Elizabeth Gatewood, PhD., is a Research Professor at Wake Forest University. She previously served in a number of positions at Wake Forest University. She was the Associate Director of the Center for Enterprise Research and Education and directed WFU’s Kauffman Campus Initiative, a $5M program awarded to only 12 United States institutions, focused on multidisciplinary entrepreneurship education. She also served as the director of the Wake Forest University National Science Foundation Partners for Innovation Program. Along with the other four founding members of the Diana Project, she was named the 2007 recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. Her research interests include the factors influencing the success of women entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial cognition, and entrepreneurial development in developing economies.