title article_title name residence employer birth_name occupation
professor of entrepreneurship and the art of innovation william gartner
 william b. gartner richland , wa , usa california lutheran university , copenhagen business school william b. gartner professor
william gartner

william b. gartner -lrb- born 1953 in richland -lrb- wa -rrb- -rrb- is an american professor of entrepreneurship .
he is known for his research on new venture creation and entrepreneurial behavior , for which he has received several awards , including the heizer doctoral dissertation award and the fsfnutek international award for entrepreneurship and small business research -lrb- today known as the global award for entrepreneurship research -rrb- .
gartner was one of the pioneering entrepreneurship research scholars in the 1980s , when there was a shift of focus in the field from studying the individual traits of the entrepreneur to regarding entrepreneurship as a behavioral process .
