Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
Faculty
Henry Chesbrough is Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and Adjunct Professor. His ground-breaking research focuses on open innovation, processes of industrial research and development, management of intellectual property, and services innovation. He is the author of the 2003 award-winning book “Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology” which shows how open innovation can unlock the latent economic value in a company's ideas and technologies. The 2007 sequel, “Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape”, was named one of the ten best books on innovation by Business Week and is being translated into six languages. Both Scientific American and the International Association of Management of Technology named him one of the top 50 technology and business management leaders.
His work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Research-Technology Management, Business History Review, and the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. He contributes a monthly column on innovation to BusinessWeek.com and is a member of the Editorial Board of Research Policy at the California Management Review.
His prior academic position was Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Fellow at the Harvard Business School. Before that, he spent ten years in product planning and strategic marketing positions at Silicon Valley companies including at Quantum Corporation, a leading hard disk drive manufacturer. He has been an associate consultant at Bain and Company.
He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California Berkeley, an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Yale University, summa cum laude.
Jerome S. Engel is Faculty Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Chair of the New Venture Creation and Venture Capital program and Adjunct Professor. He also serves as General Partner at Monitor Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and focuses on investments in high technology companies.
Mr. Engel has extensive corporate experience with entrepreneurship and venture capital, both as an investor and as an entrepreneur. He has mentored many of the Bay Area's leading venture-funded technology companies. He was a Founding General Partner in a Southern California based venture fund backed by CalPERS. He was a founder and CFO of AllBusiness.com which was sold to NBC, and sits on the boards of several technology-based companies. He began his career as a CPA and established the Entrepreneurial Services Group at Ernst & Young.
He is Faculty Chair of The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the International Berkeley-Intel Technology Challenge, and Faculty Co-Chair of the Global Social Venture Competition. He is the Faculty Director of Intel/U.C. Berkeley International Entrepreneurship Initiative and serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Kauffman Fellows Program, the editorial Board of the International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, and previously served as Faculty Director of the Kauffman Foundation Lifelong Learning for Entrepreneurship Educators Program. He is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer in the US and internationally.
Mr. Engel holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and a Master's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
David Charron is Acting Executive Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in the field of technology commercialization and entrepreneurship for the past 18 years and held positions with Xerox PARC, MIT and Stanford University. In 1995, he co-founded Scientific Learning Corporation, a publicly traded neuroscience company based on inventions from UCSF and Rutgers University. He has started two other companies and consults to startups, inventors and entrepreneurs. He has worked with Technology Ventures Corporation, a non-profit organization, fostering the commercialization of technologies emerging from the US Government's National Laboratories through direct assistance to entrepreneurs and startups.
He is Executive Director of the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a non-profit incubator with the goal of increasing entrepreneurial activity at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He teaches several courses to MBA students including Case Studies in Entrepreneurship, Workshop for Startups and Entrepreneurship. He has also been a principal member of the faculty team for the Intel Curriculum project training faculty members on teaching entrepreneurship in Budapest, Madrid, Sofia, Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Moscow and Beijing.
He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School.
