Distinguished Scholar Series 2008
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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| Professor Gerard George |
Director of Rajiv Gandhi Centre
Imperial College, London
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Friday, February 1, 2008
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Gerry George is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and serves as the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Centre facilitates Imperial College's strategic commitments in India for joint research initiatives, technology commercialisation, and educational programmes in innovation and entrepreneurship. Gerry is an expert on managing innovation in technology-based companies and has successfully launched ventures of his own. He serves on the boards of high technology companies and is actively engaged in guiding startups and large companies on technology venturing and entrepreneurship.
Before joining Imperial College, Professor George held tenured positions at the London Business School, where he served as Faculty Director of the Institute of Technology and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directed the Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship Program.
His book (with Adam Bock) titled 'Inventing Entrepreneurs: Technology Innovators and their Entrepreneurial Journey' is due to be released by Prentice Hall in December 2007. Apart from his work on scientist entrepreneurs, he studies the global diffusion of human embryonic stem cells and innovation patterns in the biotechnology industry. He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Professor George is currently an AIM Innovation Fellow of the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) fellowship supports his research on entrepreneurship and technology commercialisation in the UK and elsewhere.
An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor George has published several articles in leading scholarly journals on the topics of resource constraints in entrepreneurial firms, value creation, and innovation in large and small organisations.
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