Professor Georges Haour

Georges Haour is Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at IMD Business School in Switzerland. He also acts as an adviser to organizations in his area of value-creation through effective management of the innovation process, as well as the commercialization of technology. In the last ten years he has been regularly invited to lecture in China. He has eight patents, 11 publications and three books on innovation and technology commercialization. Max von Zedtwitz is Professor of International Business and Innovation at universities in China and Europe, and Managing Director of the GLORAD Research Center for Global R&D and Innovation with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, St. Gallen, Kaunas, Heilbronn, Moscow and Silicon Valley in California. A resident of China for 12 years, he previously taught at Tsinghua, Peking and Tongji Universities, ran a start-up in technology intelligence in Hong Kong, and served as a Vice President with PRTM Management Consultants in Shanghai.