Georges Haour

Georges Haouris Professor of innovation management at the executive education institute IMD, in Switzerland. He advises companies on effectively managing innovation, usinghis “innovation journey”, as well as on entrepreneurship and commercialization of technology.

He works with start ups, in Switzerland, Cambridge, Shanghai/Shenzehn and Paris.He is on the board of several organisations. His work in China led him to join a project on 5G/IoT, involving ICT companies from Japan and Europe.

Born and raised in Lyon, France, Georges obtained a PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada. There, he worked with Marshall McLuhan. After Bell Labs, in Murray Hill, N.J, he joined the innovation/technology transfer firm Battelle, in Geneva, becoming the manager of a 35 staff business unit.Companies funded innovation projects carried out in his unit. He licensed several of his eight granted patents to firms, such as Hitachi, in order to launch new activities.

For several years, he was an associate of the “start up factory” Generics (now Science Group), Cambridge, UK. There. he helped launch the British Telecom’s incubator “Brightstar”, in Ipswich, UK. He works with entrepreneurs in Switzerland, Cambridge, China and Paris.He is a founding partner of the Cambridge Innovation Academy, aimed at developing China’s managers in the area of innovation management, entrepreneurship and technology transfer.

He has published many articles and five books. “Resolving the Innovation Paradox” giveshis views oninnovation management. Tech. transfer is thetopic of “From Science to Business”www.sciencetobusiness.ch, books with Palgrave, London.

Hislatest book is on innovation in China. Titled “Created in China–how China is becoming a global innovator”,it has beenpublished byBloomsbury (London, 2016), and, in Chinese, by CITIC Publishing (Beijing, 2017).