The R&D Working Group of the CCIFC is pleased to invite you to his meeting on the topic:

Effectively Managing the Global Innovation Process

A seminar presented by Professor Georges Haour, Professor of Innovation Management, IMD, Switzerland

In our current "crisis of a century", firms so far have not significantly reduced their Innovation/R&D investments and will continue to open their innovation process. This raises challenging issues: complexity of leading multi-actor innovation projects, with members located in various continents - increasingly in China and India; confidentiality and IP issues; better use of ICTs for truly managing in "electronic space"; firms engaging with university research, a topic on which Dr. Georges Haour is currently writing a book "From Science to Cash".
In additon to the "usual" challenges of staff motivation, business-orientation and effective value-creation, these issues will be adressed in an interactive presentation.

Speaker:

Georges Haour:

Dr. Georges Haour is Professor at IMD, where he teaches Technology & Innovation Management and directs executive programmes for international managers.
He acts as an adviser to firms & organisations world wide on R&D/Innovation management for effective job- and value-creation.
Born and raised in Lyon, France, he graduated from the higher school of chemistry ENSCP, in Paris. He has undergraduate training in Law and Economics (Paris), a Master of Sciences (New York) and received a Ph.D, in Chemistry and Materials Science, from the University of Toronto, Canada. He holds French and Swiss passports.
Prior to joining IMD, Dr. Haour was a manager at Battelle, in Geneva, where, for nine years, he led a business unit carrying out innovation projects on behalf of companies in Europe, Japan and the USA. In this capacity, he significantly grew his unit’s sales to Euro 4 million per year and hired professionals from six countries. Several of his innovations, licensed to firms, resulted in large new business for the client- companies.
Earlier, he was a researcher at ATT's Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He also worked with Marshall McLuhan at his Centre for Culture, Society and Technology, in Toronto.
Dr. Haour has 8 patents, 90 publications and three books on innovation and technology commercialization. In his theme of “creating jobs and value through effective innovation management”, his latest book is titled Resolving the Innovation Paradox (Palgrave, London). The Japanese version is published by First Press (Tokyo; www.firstpress.co.jp). The website for the book is: www.innovationparadox.com. He is working on a new book From Science to Cash on ways to effectively commercialise University/public research.
He is a board member of several organizations, including start ups, founder of the yearly IFTM-Forum for Technology Management on leading technology firms and member of the annual World Entrepreneurship Forum, to be held in Lyon in November 2009.

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