GEORGES HAOUR

Dr. Georges Haour is Professor at IMD, where he teaches Technology & Innovation Management and directs executive programmes for international managers. He also works with the innovation company Sagentia (new name of Generics), in Cambridge, UK, on business innovation and new technology ventures.

Dr. Haour acts as an adviser to firms & organisations in Europe, North America and Japan, on R&D/Innovation management for effective job- and value-creation, mainly in the healthcare sector.

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 above $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 - Enhancing Growth in Technology Companies, (Palgrave, London, reprinted in 2005). The Japanese version is published by First Press (Tokyo, 2006;www.firstpress.co.jp). The website for the book is: www.innovationparadox.com.

He is also involved in activities such as: board member of several organizations, including start ups, member of the jury for the yearly Innovation Award of The Economist and founder of the annual IFTM-Forum for Technology Management, on leading technology firms;  the Forum venues include Bangalore, Kyoto, Paris and Shanghai.

Haour@imd.ch

are you involved with the Bsel based ECLE course for managers form pahrma/biotech/medtech ?

Alfredo Barras

George

No I am not aware of the Bsel based ECLE course for managers form pahrma/biotech/medtech.

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