Faculty highlight - Dr. Harvey Goldstein

Hot off the heels of rubbing elbows with Bill Clinton at the first annual CDGC meeting, Prof. Dr. Harvey Goldstein is one of MODUL University Vienna's most distinguished academics. He holds the position of as Professor and Dean of the Program in Public Governance and Management.

His research has spanned many dimensions of regional economic development, regional labor markets, innovation, entrepreneurship, industrial clusters, governance of development, and technology policy. He has conducted research and served as a consultant over the past 20 years on the role and effectiveness of universities in the creation of local and regional economic health and sustainability. Within this field Dr. Goldstein has evaluated science and technology parks as instruments of regional economic development for the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Economic Development Administration. He is currently initiating research on the obstacles and barriers to universities creating spin-off companies in Austria.

Other research has included the development of methods and models for forecasting regional employment by industrial sector and for assessing the degree of fit between a region’s knowledge assets in institutions of higher education and its industry strengths as a way to target the most competitive knowledge-based industry clusters.

Dr. Goldstein has served as an adviser to a number of international and U.S. government agencies on knowledge-based economic development policies and strategies. Prior to moving to his current position in Austria, he served as a professor on the faculties of Columbia University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching including a Senior Fulbright Scholarship in 2000 and selection as a Kauffman Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow in 2006. Goldstein completed his undergraduate education at Columbia University and earned two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

An avid climber in his spare time, Dr Goldstein has scaled mountains in Alaska, Peru and Switzerland to name a few. He is currently undertaking a campaign to read all the classics of world literature.