Dr. Dave Valliere

Dr. Dave Valliere (BASc, MEng, PEng, MBA, PhD)

Biographical Sketch

Dave Valliere joined the Entrepreneurship and Strategy area after a long and varied career in industry. He has worked as a Professional Engineer, in IT management for a range of large and small companies, in commercial banking for several high-tech sectors, and as a venture capitalist in the software industry.

Dave also held an appointment at the Schulich School of Business, where he developed and delivered entrepreneurial courses in new venture formation and managing high-growth firms, and was awarded for his excellence in teaching. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science and Masters of Engineering from University of Toronto, an MBA from the University of Western Ontario, and a PhD from Open University (UK). His dissertation topic was information asymmetry and signalling in the early-stage venture capital market.
Outside of academic life, Dave enjoys traveling to far corners of the world, composing music, guerrilla art projects, and a wide range of outdoor activities that include mountaineering and remote trekking.

Research

Entrepreneurship and economic growth: Evidence from emerging and developed countries
Entrepreneurship and national economic growth: The European entrepreneurial deficit
Reconceptualizing entrepreneurial framework conditions
Consequences of growth: Shaping entrepreneurial attitudes
When entrepreneurs choose VCs: Experience, choice criteria and introspection accuracy
What matters when entrepreneurs choose their venture capitalists
Why do venture capitalists make early-stage investments? Theory and international evidence
Prior relationships and M&A exit valuations: A set-theoretic approach
Application of physical science analysis to strategic management monitoring and control systems kinetics
Perceptions of strategic uncertainty: A structural exploration
Seeking the summit: Exploring the entrepreneur-mountaineer analogy
Acclimatization in high-altitude sport: Predictive modelling of oxygen saturation as an expedition management tool
Entrepreneurial action: Enacting Buddhist economics in the small
Exploring Buddhist influence in the entrepreneurial decision

Teaching

Professor Valliere teaches the following courses:
ENT 527- Studies in Entrepreneurship
ENT 727- Applied Research in Entrepreneurship
ENT 730- Entrepreneurial Organizational Appraisal I
ENT 830- Entrepreneurial Organizational Appraisal II
BUS 800- Strategic Management