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Thomas S. Lyons, Ph.D.
Lawrence N. Field Family Chair in Entrepreneurship
Baruch College, CUNY
Zicklin School of Business
Department of Management
55 Lexington Ave., Room 9-246
New York, NY 10010
646-312-3633
Email: Thomas.Lyons@baruch.cuny.edu

Thomas S. Lyons is the Lawrence N. Field Family Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, CUNY. His research specialization is in state and local economic development planning.

His current research interests include the evaluation of public programs for new enterprise development and sustainable local development. He does periodic evaluations of Wisconsin’s local business incubation programs. He recently assessed Louisville, Kentucky’s system for providing assistance to minority entrepreneurs and developed and installed an improved system. He is in the midst of a stream of research that explores the development of a regional system to encourage economic development through the transformation of new enterprises, with demonstration projects underway in Asheville, NC and the Advantage Valley Region of western West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and southern Ohio. Tom is also doing work in the area of the role of business incubation in sustainable development in both rural and inner city environments.

Tom has co-authored six books on various aspects of economic development, and has another that is in press. He has also published numerous articles and technical reports on the general subject. Selected examples of his published works include:

• Hamlin, R. E. and T.S. Lyons. Financing Small Business in America: Debt Capital and Small Business Transformation. Westport, CT: Praeger (in press).
• Koven, S.G. and T.S. Lyons. 2003. Economic Development: Strategies for State and Local Practice. Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association.
• Lyons, T.S. 2002. Building Social Capital for Rural Enterprise Development in the United States. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 7, 2: 193-216.
• Donald, C. G., T.S. Lyons, and R.C. Tribbey. 2001. A Partnership for Strategic Planning and Management in a Public Organization. Public Productivity & Management Review, 25, 2: 176-193.
• Lyons, T.S. and J.A. Segedy. 2001. Planning the Indianapolis Region: Urban Resurgence, DeFacto Regionalism and Unigov. Planning Practice and Research, 16, 3.
• Lyons, T. S. and R. E. Hamlin. 2001. Creating an Economic Development Action Plan, Revised and Updated Edition: A Guide for Development Professionals . Westport, CT : Praeger. (hardcover and paperback)
• Durr, M. and T.S. Lyons. 2000. “Identifying the Unique Needs of Urban Entrepreneurs: African American Skill Set Development”. Race & Society 3:75-90.
• Lichtenstein, G. A. and T. S. Lyons. 2001. “The Entrepreneurial Development System: Transforming Business Talent and Community Economies”. Economic Development Quarterly 15, 1:3-20.
• Meyer, P.B., T. S. Lyons and T. L. Clapp. 2000. Projecting Environmental Trends from Economic Forecasts . Aldershot, UK.: Ashgate Publishing.
• T. S. Lyons and G. A. Lichtenstein. 2002. “Moving from Observation to Action: Addressing the New Politics of Race”. In Durr, M. (Ed.). The New Politics of Race: From DuBois to the 21st Century. Westport, CT: Praeger.
• Durr, M., T. S. Lyons, and K. K. Cornwell. 2000. "Social Cost and Enterprise Development Within African-American Communities", National Journal of Sociology, 12, 1: 57-77.
• Meyer, P. B. and T. S. Lyons. 2000. "Lessons from Private Sector Brownfield Redevelopers : Planning Public Support for Urban Regeneration". Journal of the American Planning Association, 66,1: 46-57.
• Lyons, T. S., G. A. Lichtenstein and S. Chhatre. 1999. "Assessing the Efficacy of Rural Business Incubation: A Diagnostic Approach from the United States". Journal of Rural Development , 18, 1: 29-49.
• Hamlin, R. E. and T. S. Lyons. 1996. Economy Without Walls: Managing Local Development in a Restructuring World. Westport, CT: Praeger.
• G. A. Lichtenstein and T. S. Lyons. 1996. Incubating New Enterprises: A Guide to Successful Practice. Washington, D.C.: The Aspen Institute. (translated into Spanish)
• Weinberg, M. L., T. S. Lyons, and M. L. Shook. 1995. State Government Support of Business Incubators: A Survey of Current Efforts in Entrepreneurial Development. Economic Development Commentary, 19, 1: 17-21.

Tom grew up in Indianapolis, IN. His hobbies are cycling, photography, and reading.