Paige A. Clayton

Paige Clayton is an Assistant Professor of Economic Development in the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech.  She is an Affiliate of Georgia Policy Labs and was previously affiliated with the CREATE Research Center at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. 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 (Sophia Antipolis, France) and at UCLA’s Department of Geography.

Paige's research is at the intersection of entrepreneurship and innovation, science and technology policy, and economic development. Key themes include entrepreneurial support organizations, social network analysis, entrepreneurial ecosystems, university technology transfer, research & development, and institutions, and 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, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, and others.