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2004-Present, Professor of Practice -Director of the Program in Entrepreneurship at Lehigh University. Responsible for development and teaching LU Minor in Entrepreneurship.

From 1998 to 2003 Bladstrom Visiting Professor (entrepreneurship) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Wharton Program in Technological Innovation.

Between 1993 and 1997 appointed by the President as United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy, where his responsibilities included the development and implementation of policies to increase the role of technology in enhancing the competitiveness and economic growth of the United States.

1980 - 1993 Director of Planning and Forecasting for GTE (now Verizon) where he developed and operated corporate technology planning systems covering GTE's main businesses in telecommunications, lighting, and materials.

1968-1980 General Electric Company as manager of research, engineering, and business development in operations, and with the Corporate Research and Development Center. .

Director of the Industrial Research Institute, author/collaborator 50 papers and studies on technology, business management, and policy, 7 U.S. patents, major honors IRI's "Maurice Holland Award" IAMOT'S "Distinguished Award" for the Management of Technology
B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Westminster, London. 

Selected Publications

• "Instill the Entrepreneurial Mindset." Research Technology Management, November-December 2007, pp. 11-15.
• "Managing Materials for a 21st Century Military." National Research Council of the National Academy of Science, Washington, DC, Oct. 2007.
• "United States as an Emerging Market: Infrastructure Assets," co-authored with Jagdeep Bachher. 2nd U.S. Infrastructure Investment Summit, Finance IQ, New York, April 26, 2007.
• R&D as a Strategic Option--Revisited," with W. Hamilton. Research Technology Management, March-April 2007, pp. 41-50. Special invited article to recognize the original paper as the second most cited article in the history of the journal, Research Technology Management.
• "Integrating Entrepreneurship Education and Capstone Projects while meeting ABET requirements," with Ochs, Lennon. ASEE 2006 Conference and Exposition.
• "Visions and Revisions: Information Technology and the Future of Development" Inter-American Development Bank and Beneficiary Country Partnership - World Summit on The Information Society, Tunis - Nov 2005.
• "Industrial R&D Strategy for the early 21st Century" Research Technology Management, January - February 2000, pp. 31-35
• "Global Technology Policies for Economic Growth." Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 60, 205-214 1999
• "Management of Technology" and "Industrial Research and U.S. Competitiveness" Review of Business, Issue editor vol 14, no 3, Spring 1993
• "The Changing Agenda for Research Management" Research Technology Management, September-October 1992 pp. 13-21. Maurice Holland Award 1993 Industrial Research Institute.
• "Business Strategy and Technology Management" ASCI Journal of Management, Vol 21, no2-3 September -December 1991
• "The Increasing Importance of Technology for Services: Case Study of a U.S. Electronics Firm." Structurac Szerveretek Strategiak, Review of Industrial Economics. 1991
• "Alternative Frameworks for Technology Strategy" European Journal of Operational Research, vol 47, no 2, July 25 1990
• "Industrial Research Institute's Annual Trends Survey," Research Technology Management, January-February 1990 pp.14-16
• "R&D in Perspective: What is your R&D Worth?" The McKinsey Quarterly, no3. 1990 pp.150-22 (co-authored with W. F. Hamilton)
• "Research and Development for the Service Industries," Research Technology Management, November-December 1989 pp. 37-44
• "Managing R&D as a Strategic Option." Research Technology Management, May -June 1988 pp.256-262 * (2nd most cited paper in history of Journal)
• "Options for the Strategic Management of Technology" International Journal of Technology Management, Vol 13, no3, 1988, pp 253-262.
• "New Approaches to the Strategic Management of Technology" Technology in Society, 1985, pp. 227-239.
• "Fundamentals of Vacuum Interruption and Vacuum Breakdown," Proceedings of Ist International Conference on Circuit Interruption, University of Sidney Australia, May 1976.
• "The Structure of Vacuum Arcs and their Influence on the Design of Vacuum Interrupters," IEE Power Engineering Proceedings, January 1975, (Co-authored with Lawson P Harris).
• Contact Materials : Vacuum Circuit Breakers" IEEE Proceedings of Ragnor Holm Conference, 1974.
• "Protection of Series Capacitors" Transmission, Vol 3 September 1973 (co-authored with Berger Johnson)
• "Sectionalizing for Distribution Systems," IEEE Power Systems Transactions1973, (Co-authored with Robert Jenks and Gordon Banks)
• "High Current Vacuum Arcs, Part 1: An Experimental Study" Proc IEE, December1970, - Ayerton Premium for plasma physics - IEE 1970
• "High Current Arcs, Part 2: Theoretical Outline" Proc IEE December 1970

Reports authored or directed/edited and published for the United States Department of Commerce:

• "America's New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers" September 1997.
• "Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Industry faces the 21st Century: The Biotechnology Industry." September 1997
• "The Global Context of U.S. Technology Policy." August 1997
• "Korea's Strategy for Global Leadership in Research and Development" June 1997
• "International Plans Policies and Investments in Science and Technology." April 1997
• "Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Industry faces the 21st Century: The Automobile Manufacturing Industry" January 1997
• "Trends in Japanese Textile Technology" January 1997
• "Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Industry faces the 21st Century: The Steel Industry." November 1996
• "Foreign Science and Technology Sources." July 1996
• "Survey of Speech Research in Japan." July 1996
• "Technology in the National Interest." Presidential Statement of U.S. Technology Policy. June 1996
• "Why Partner? - Analysis of White Papers Submitted to the Advanced Technology Program." April 1996
• "Japanese Government S&T Related Expenditures: Creating a Favorable Climate for Research and Investment." April 1996
• "Effective Partnering: A Report to Congress on Federal Technology Partnerships." April 1996
• "International Science and Technology: Emerging Trends in Government Policies and Expenditures." April 1996
• "Globalizing Research and Development" November 1995
• "Japanese Projects and Intellectual Property Laws." November 1995
• "Guide to the Japanese Patent System." December 1995
• "Listening to Industry: U.S. Business Views on Technology Policy." June 1994

Copies of the above available - www.ta.doc.gov

Book Chapters

• "Vanevar Bush ll- Science for the 21st Century 1995: Partnerships between Government Industry" Sigma Xi, March 1995
• "American Management Association Handbook," 1994 AMACOM Chap. 7-9, "Managing R&D for Strategic Position,"
• "Technology Management- Case Studies in Innovation" 1992 Auerbach Publications, Robert Szakonyi, ed, "Shifting Sectors - R&D for Services"
• AAAS Science and Technology Yearbook 1991. Margaret O. Meredith, Stephen D. Nelson, Albert H, Teich eds Chapt. 11 "Changing Priorities of Industrial Research."
• "Technology and the Modern Corporation" 1985 Pergammon Press, Mel Horwich ed. "New Approaches to the Strategic Management of Technology"

 

 

   

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