New directors appointed to regional economic issues center

Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management has appointed Scott Shane as a full-time professor in its economics department and Edward M. Morrison as executive director of the Weatherhead Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI).

Shane, who will also serve as academic director of REI, is one of the nation's leading scholars in the study of entrepreneurship and technology transfer. He comes to Weatherhead from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland where he served as Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Department.
As the new executive director, Morrison replaces the late Richard A. Shatten who died in 2002.

An economic development consultant for 18 years, Morrison has developed strategies
for organizations around the country and manages a joint venture in China for American investors. He is also the founder of the Greater China Business Network Inc., the Oklahoma Business Network and the Ouachita Enterprise Corp.

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