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Dr. Jay Paap
President
Paap Associates |
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Jay Paap is President of
Paap Associates, a management consulting firm assisting
major corporations in their business and technology
development efforts. He serves on the faculty of the
Industrial Relations Center at Cal Tech and the
Executive Program at The Sloan School (MIT), is a Fellow
of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
(SCIP), and a PDMA Certified New Product Development
Professional. For over 30 years he has managed projects
world-wide dealing with business and product
development, strategic alliances, technology management
and competitive intelligence. He is a frequent speaker
on innovation, alliances, corporate venturing, and
competitive intelligence, appearing in executive
seminars throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle
East, and Japan.
Jay received his Ph.D.
from MIT�s Sloan School of Management with
concentrations in technology management and
organizational design. He was a faculty member at both
Sloan and Indiana University, and has served on the
editorial advisory boards of Technology Management and
the Competitive Intelligence Review, where he guest
edited the 1994 issue on Competitive Technical
Intelligence.
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Jay Paap
is also the acclaimed instructor
of MRTs highly acclaimed workshop:
TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING
TO ACCELERATE INNOVATION:
Implementing an External Sourcing Program
Next Session: August 14-15, 2008 in Cambridge, MA
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Dr.
Paul
Germeraad
President
Intellectual Assets, Inc. |
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Paul Germeraad is
President of Intellectual Assets, Inc., a professional
advisory services firm specializing in integrated
business, R&D, and IP processes. Dr. Germeraad was
previously Chief Operating Officer for Aurigin Systems,
Inc., a software start-up company focused on the
development of intellectual asset management products
for the Competitive Intelligence, Licensing and R&D
communities. Prior to joining Aurigin in 1998, Paul
worked for three Fortune 500 companies. He served as
Vice President, Corporate Research for Avery Dennison.
Before joining Avery Dennison, Paul was director of
James River Corporation's Flexible Packaging Technical
Center and held a variety of R&D and management
positions at Raychem Corporation.
Paul is past Chairman of
the Industrial Research Institute, an organization of
Chief Technology Officers whose organizations account
for over 70% of all US R&D spending. Paul is past
Trustee and VP Education for the Licensing Executives
Society (LES USA-Canada), is an instructor for the LES
Professional Development Series and served as Chair of
the LESI Education Committee.
Paul is a graduate of the
University of California, San Diego, with a B.A. in
Chemistry. In addition, Paul holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry
from the University of California, Irvine and an LL.B
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