We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Gerry Goerge as Director fo the Rajiv Gahdhi Centre
“I am pleased to take on the exciting new opportunities at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre. Indian companies are aspiring to be global players. Imperial’s core strengths in innovation and entrepreneurship can be matched to these needs. Our objective is to convert the aspirations of Indian companies into opportunities for partnerships with British companies. The research that we do in the Indian context will help businesses understand the strategic issues and their solutions”
Gerry George joins Tanaka Business School as Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and will serve as the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre. 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.
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.
If you would like to discuss developing collaborative partnerships with the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, please contact:
Professor Gerry George
Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7594 1876
Email: g.george@imperial.ac.uk
Web: //www3.imperial.ac.uk/rajivgandhicentre
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