May 21, 2010
Dr Jean-Philippe Deschamps, IMD Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, will be the keynote speaker at the Millennium Technology Prize award ceremony on June 8, 2010 in Helsinki, Finland.
The Millennium Technology Prize is awarded in part by Technology Academy Finland and in part by the Finnish state to recognize “life-enhancing technological innovation.”
Professor Deschamps' speech will address the characteristics of innovation leaders.
“The Millenium Prize recognizes world-prominent scientists whose technological discoveries have the power to change our everyday life – that is once they get successfully implemented in the market,” Professor Deschamps stated. “But the road from inventions, however brilliant they may be, to successful innovations and market adoption is indeed an arduous one. It requires visionary and entrepreneurial business leaders capable of seeing both the opportunities and the paths to their materialization. These leaders must be willing to commit resources over time to build the capabilities required to make them happen. And they must be totally devoted to steering the generally long and sometimes erratic execution phase. For those reasons, these business executives deserve to be called innovation leaders.”
Professor Deschamps is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and co-author of Product Juggernauts – How Companies Mobilize to Generate Streams of Market Winners, translated in six languages and long featured in the best-selling list of the Harvard Business School Press. His book, Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Promote, Steer and Sustain Innovation was published by Wiley/Jossey-
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