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 Resolv

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