Georges Haour

At IMD, Dr. Georges Haour teaches Technology & Innovation Management and directs executive programmes for international managers. 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. He founded and leads a yearly course in this area in Basel (www.ecle.ch). Born and raised in Lyon, France, he graduated from the higher school of chemistry ENSCP, in Paris. He has 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-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 - 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 working on a new book, From Science to Cash, on firms effectively partnering with Universities, in order to create value and new business. He is also 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. Haour@imd.ch