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Paige Clayton

Assistant Professor, School of City & Regional Planning

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Paige Clayton

Assistant Professor, School of City & Regional Planning

Architecture-East Building, 204-I

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Specialization Area: Economic Development

Currently accepting Ph.D. students.

Paige Clayton is an Assistant Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. Dr. Clayton joined Georgia Tech in 2020 after completing her PhD in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a concentration on entrepreneurship and innovation, regional economic development, and science and technology policy. At the University of North Carolina, Dr. Clayton received the Nancy W. Stegman Fellowship and the Dissertation Completion Fellowship. During her PhD, she held visiting positions at SKEMA Business School (Valbonne, France) and at UCLA’s Department of Geography. She held a research fellow position with the CREATE Research Center at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise from 2020-2022.

Dr. Clayton’s research focuses on regional patterns of entrepreneurship and innovative activity that contribute to the economic development of local economies. Key themes include the discerning the role of policy, entrepreneurial support organizations, social networks, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and technology transfer, as well as the connections between these factors which help support local entrepreneurship and innovation. Her research has been published in Research Policy, Small Business Economics, Industrial & Corporate Change, Academy of Management Perspectives, the Journal of Technology Transfer, Industrial Labor & Relations Review, and the Oxford Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Collaboration, among others.