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Prof. Frank Roche
Frank is currently the Director of UCD Michael Smurfit Business School. He holds the Berber Family Chair of Entrepreneurship at UCD and was previously the Deputy Principal of the College of Business & Law.
Frank has held a number of positions with the School of Business including Director of the MBA Programme, Director of the Enterprise Centre and Head of the Department of Management. He has extensive experience in teaching strategy and entrepreneurship at undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education levels. In 1975, he introduced entrepreneurship into BComm curriculum and, in 1978, launched the first elective in the area. These electives are now available in virtually all programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the School of Business.
His research interests are mainly in the area of Industrial Policy and he has completed a very wide range of studies and reports in this field. In particular, he was the architect of, and led the team which prepared “Shaping Our Future: A Strategy for Enterprise in Ireland for the 21st Century”. His interest in the policy field led to his appointment as the Programme Manager for Ruairi Quinn, the first Minister of the newly formed Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. This continuing interest is evident in his membership of the Small Business Forum and the implementation group set-up by Minister Micheal Martin to recommend solutions to the problems and issues faced by small firms in Ireland. In July 2007, he was appointed Chairman of the Management Development Council by the Minister, to recommend an action programme to achieve significant improvements in the standards of management in small and medium sized firms.
Frank has extensive experience of working as a Strategy Consultant and is Chairman of McIver Consulting, which specialises in working with firms facilitating the process of developing their strategies.
In the world of entrepreneurship, he is a Director of NOVA UCD, which is focused on supporting entrepreneurship in UCD and, in particular, commercialising the outputs of research through the formation of campus companies in its innovation centre on the Belfield Campus. He is Vice Chairman of the Dublin Business Innovation Centre, which supports technology-based start-up companies in the greater Dublin region and which manages the Guinness Enterprise Centre, an incubation centre that currently has 66 start-up companies.
His degrees in Agricultural Science were completed at UCD and he did his MBA and PhD degrees at Michigan State University.
