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Bruce Kingma
Bruce Kingma
Born (1961-10-04) October 4, 1961 (age 62)
Chicago, IL
Nationality United States
Academic career
FieldAcademic entrepreneurship
Information economics
Entrepreneurial economics
InstitutionSyracuse University
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
University of Rochester
AwardsLeavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education (2011)
American Distance Education Consortium National Award for Excellence in Distance Education (2008)
Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning, Effective Practice Award (2006)

Bruce Kingma is an economist and academic entrepreneur. He is currently Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the Syracuse University School of Information Studies.[1]

Kingma served as the Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Innovation[2] at Syracuse University from 2007-2013. He was the principal investigator for the $3 million Kauffman Campus Initiative grant[3] from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2007 that resulted in 15 entrepreneurship programs in Central New York and an increase in entrepreneurship education at Syracuse University.

In 2004 and 2006, Kingma received two grants[4] from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) totaling more than $1.6 million to create the Web-based Information Science Education Consortium (WISE)[5], a collaborative distance education program, to increase quality, access and diversity of online educational opportunities for library and information science (LIS) students.[2]

Kingma was also a professor at the University at Albany, Case Western Reserve University, and Texas A&M University.

Kingma received his PhD in economics from the University of Rochester in 1989 and his B.A. in economics with honors from the University of Chicago in 1983. Kingma’s work spans many areas including academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and religion, the economics of information, online education, and nonprofit and library management.

In 2011, Kingma was awarded the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education[6] for the "The Syracuse Student Accelerator"[7] from the Institute of Museum and Library Services which became the Raymond von Dran Innovation and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator (RvD IDEA)[8]. He was awarded the American Distance Education Consortium National Award for Excellence in Distance Education (2008) for the WISE Consortium[9] and the Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning, Effective Practice Award (2006)[10][11].

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