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Dr. Matthews is an internationally recognized scholar, innovative teacher, and proven leader in entrepreneurship and higher education. In 2024, the United States Assoc. for Small Business & Entrepreneurship recognized him as the Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year, only the 25th person so honored since 1992. His teaching and research span strategy; innovation; entrepreneurship; innovation; family business; decision making, and more. He is published in: Journal of Small Business Management; Small Bus Economics; Family Bus Review, to name a few. He has been quoted in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Industry Week, Forbes, and Bus. Week. A former columnist on SMEs and Entrep. for The Cincinnati Post ('98-'01), The Cincinnati Enquirer ('11-'15), and he is co-author of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Routledge, 2015, 2e 2025). A Fulbright Scholar in Lithuania (2018), he has taught over 10,000 students, freshmen to doctoral students to executives, including classes of 540. He has entrepreneurship and family business experience in the automotive, photographic, and real estate industries. An educational entrepreneur, he founded of the UC Center for Entrepreneurship in 1997. Under his leadership, the UC E-Center was nationally ranked (21st Princeton Review). A successful fund raiser, he secured over $2 million in endowment for E-Center programs. He has engaged in economic development in China, the former Soviet Union (including Russia, Latvia, and Estonia), studied at the Univ. of Antwerp, was a Malone Fellow in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, was a visiting scholar at The George Washington University and has taught at the Southwest Univ. of Fin & Econ, Chengdu, China, and Nanyang Tech Univ., Singapore. He has led numerous study abroad courses in China and the UAE and given lectures to visiting delegations from the Middle East, Russia, Africa, China, the Ukraine and more. He is a member of the Editorial Review and Advisory Boards, JSBM, ad-hoc reviewer for ET&P, JDE, and JBV. He is Past Pres & Fellow of the Small Bus. Institute®, US Assoc. for Small Bus. and Entrep (USASBE), Past Pres & Wilford White Fellow of the Int'l Council for Sm Bus (ICSB); and a Fellow of the UC Graduate School.