THECIS Fellows
THECIS has established a network of experts, called THECIS Fellows, to support the work of the Centre. Current members:
Senior Fellow. Richard Hawkins, BA, MA (Simon Fraser), D.Phil. (Sussex) Richard Hawkins is a political economist specializing in science, technology and innovation policy and strategy. Currently he is Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Science and Technology Policy in the Science, Technology and Society and Society at the University of Calgary. Prior to this, he was Leader of the Network Economy Programme and later Senior Advisor to the Science, Technology and Innovation Programme at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, one of Europe's largest contract research laboratories. Previous to this, he was Senior Fellow in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex. Before turning his attention to academic and applied research activities he was active professionally in the international music industry.
J. Adam Holbrook, P. Eng.
Adam Holbrook is an adjunct professor and Associate Director at the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST), at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. Before joining CPROST in 1995 he was a career civil servant in the federal government of Canada involved in S&T policy issues at the Treasury Board Secretariat and Industry Canada.At CPROST his research activities have centred on the analysis of science, technology and innovative activities in both the public sector and the private sector. He is the leader of a network of researchers in innovation studies in western Canada, and recently edited a book on regional innovation systems in Canada - “Innovation, Institutions and Territory: Regional Innovation Systems in Canada” .
Alex Bruton, PhD, P.Eng. MBA
Entrepreneur and educator with 14 years of experience and a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship. Loves teaching and public speaking, and has presented to audiences ranging in size from five to 500 people on over 40 occasions in six countries. Currently leads the development of a university program that provides an entrepreneurial training ground and launch pad for creative 17-30 year old entrepreneurs in all disciplines, and was Vice President at a technology start-up. Brings excellent leadership and people-skills, a strong technical background and experience that includes: strategy development; business model design; business and product planning; facilitation; marketing research; and industry and competitive analyses. Has published 21 papers in the public domain and 19 proprietary technical, concept-of-operations and business reports. Has had his research supported by NSERC on three occasions and by other awards on nine occasions. Co-founded the Innovation Department for a Canadian advanced technology company, has experience in product and project management, and has recruited and developed early-stage teams. Has won and been nominated for several awards for best and most innovative teaching. Recently gave an invited talk at Google Waterloo on “Creating Really Big Value” through entrepreneurship education (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX2Zht4GJ1c).
Arvid Hardin, B.Sc., Ph.D
Dr. Hardin is Principal of Hardin Associates Technology Management, a privately held business providing international management consulting services, economic and investment development, business strategy development, technology strategy and management. Before that he worked in senior positions in the intenational petrochemical and energy industries, and in government agencies. Previously he was Assistant Director, Energy R&D, for the Canadian national Energy Program
Bob Este
Bob Este is Business Development Officer for the Institute for Space Imaging Science at the University of Calgary. He is responsible for initiating, shaping and building local, national, and international business networks with SMEs and large industry in the realm of Space Science. Bob is also Project Manager for the Cyber-SKA (Square Kilometer
Array) project funded by CANARIE, and is the Canadian SKA Consortium representative for global industry engagement strategy for the international SKA Development Program. Bob has many years of successful international and corporate and business relationship-building experience. Prior to his current role, Bob was founding Deputy Director of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics at the University of Calgary where he shaped Institute policy and carried out Institute strategic planning and operations, establishing a successful advanced biological research facility. Bob is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of Calgary where his dissertation examines the architectures of innovation and the philosophy of science. A successful strategist, manager and administrator for more than 25 years, Bob has managed and delivered entire university transfer (1st and 2nd year) management programs, successfully interned and then served as an education authority CEO, invented and taught unique courses in astronomy, robotics and visual language, enjoyed a number of provincial and national secondments, and completed the Aspen Institute's Executive Leadership Program. Bob has also served in the Faculties of Continuing Education and Engineering at the University of Calgary as an instructor and program and course designer. Bob has authored and presented articles in IEEE and European, Australian and Asian academic, business and military venues addressing the enhancement of conceptual skills in relation to technological innovation and societal change, and is writing three books in these emerging areas of innovation research.
Brian Wixted, B Admin, Grad Dip App Sci., Ph.D.
Brian is a Visiting Fellow with CPROST at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and the founder of Technomics Research. He has degrees in commerce and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Science. During his employment with the Australian Commonwealth Public Service he worked on science, technology and innovation indicators analysis (1989-1995) and agricultural and resources science and innovation policy (1995-2000). Between 2000 and 2004, Brian was with the AEGIS research centre at the University of Western Sydney, where he was principally responsible for its data analysis of innovation related issues. In 2005 he completed his doctorate, which examined the international linkages between industrial clusters.
Bruno Silvestre B. Eng., M. Eng., D.Phil
Dr. Silvestre is an industrial engineer specializing in technology and innovation management, strategy and cluster dynamics. He has more than 10 years of direct managerial experience in the energy sector (including oil and gas and electricity) and other resource based sectors. More recently, he worked for a research park and firm incubator involved in a number of high tech start-up projects. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor and Research Associate with the faculty of Business Administration and the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST) at Simon Fraser University, and Business Development Executive at ELECTROBRAS, the major Brazilian National Electricak Utility.
Chad Saunders, MBA, PhD
Dr. Saunders is an Assistant Professor at the Haskayne School of Business in the area of Management Information Systems and holds a cross-appointment with the Faculty of Medicine's Department of Community Health Sciences where he is the Research and Innovation lead with the Health Innovation and Information Technology Centre (HiiTeC). Chad's research interests focus on the impact of information technology on professional practice. In particular, this work considers the implications for design and innovation within a professional environment and the key entrepreneurial activities associated with the use of technology within the professional contexts. His professional experience includes technology benchmarking, commercialization and the strategic deployment of technology to support collaborative research. Chad has published in leading journals including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, IEEE TRansactions on Software Engineering and the Ivey Business Journal.
Charles Davis PhD
Dr Davis is the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Research Chair in Media Management and Entrepreneurship, and Associate Dean, Scholarly Research and Creative Activities, Faculty of Communication & Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. I currently teach and conduct research on innovation management and policy. His research interests have to do with product innovation, media audiences, customer value and experiential consumption of media products, innovation in digital experience goods, and labour and entrepreneurial startups in creative industries.
Cooper Langford, Ph.D., FRS(Can.)
Dr. Langford is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Calgary and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at the University. He is a former Vice-President (Research) at U of C and a former Director of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at NSERC. He has published on university/industry/government relations, strategic research funding, evaluation of the outcomes of university research, Canadian participation in megascience, and knowledge flows. His current research includes study of regional clusters in innovation.
Denzil Doyle, C.M., B.Sc., D.Eng.,F.E.I.C.
Denzil Doyle is Chairman of Doyletech Corporation, an Ottawa-based company specializing in providing consulting services to entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers, and economic development authorities. Although trained as an engineer, he has spent most of his career in the business world. From 1963 to 1981, he directed the affairs of Digital Equipment Canada, growing it to annual sales in excess of $160 million.
He formed Doyletech Corporation in 1982, and provided services to all provincial and the federal government. In 1982, he also co-founded Instantel Inc. an Ottawa based supplier of electronic instrumentation.
From 1995 to 2005 he served as Chairman of Alliance Capital ventures Inc. an Ottawa based venture capital firm.
He is the author of several busines sarticles and books.
In 2005 he was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada.
Don MacLean
Don MacLean is an independent consultant based in Ottawa, Canada. His consulting projects typically involve research, analysis and policy development on economic, social and governance issues related to telecommunications, the Internet and ICTs. From 1992-99, he headed the Strategic Planning and External Affairs Unit of the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, Switzerland.Prior to joining the ITU, he served in a number of senior policy and planning posts in the former Canadian Department of Communications.Mr. MacLean has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from McGill University and did graduate studies at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris) and Princeton.
Éric Archambault, D.Phil.
Éric Archambault is President of Science-Metrix, a Canadian consultancy that specializes in the measurement and evaluation of science- and technology-related activities. His core function in the company is to analyze and formulate science, technology and innovation policy and strategy. Healso teaches quantitative methods (scientometrics and technometrics) to students in the Science, Technology and Society program at the Université du Québec à Montréal and is an associate researcher at the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies as well as at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie. He has research expertise in the following areas: health science and technology, information and communication technology, energy and transport.
Ian McCarthy, B.Eng., M.Sc., Ph.D
Ian McCarthy is currently Canada Research Chair in Management of Technology at the Faculty of Business, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His academic career began in engineering where he researched and taught engineering management and operations systems design. Since completing his PhD he has concentrated on understanding the varius operational and technological configurations (practices, processes and structures) that exisist in different types of industrial organizations. This has included research on managing operational complexity, mass customization, decision making in new product development, and strategies for drug discovery.
Gordon A. Gow Ph.D.
Gordon Gow is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta. From 2003-2006 he was a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political, where he was Director of the Graduate Programme in Media and Communications Regulation and Policy. Gordon’s research looks at the development of electronic communications networks from a combined social and technical perspective, with the aim of promoting innovation through expanded public understanding of and participation in policymaking. His primary focus is with the long term planning and management of critical infrastructure systems, especially those that support public alerting and emergency management activities. He is currently involved in the development and testing of an all-hazards warning system in Sri Lanka, in addition to having published reports for the Canadian government on tsunami warning and emergency communications. His wider research interests include innovation in mobile voice and data systems, especially with respect to regulatory concerns such as spectrum policy and management, telecom reform, technical standardization, and public safety.
Jacek Warda, M.A. Economics, D.P.A.
Since 2003 Mr. Warda has been President and Founder of JPW Innovation Associates Inc, a research and advisory practice specializing in science and technology policy. He is a internationally recognised expert on the R&D tax treatment and consultant to the OECD. His expertise also includes benchmarking of innovation systems and evaluating collaboration of the private sector with universities and government research laboratories. He is a former Principal Research Associate with the Innovation and Technology program and Manager, Innovatioin Council at The Conference Board of Canada. He resides in Ottawa.
Jeremy Hall, D.Phil.
Dr. Hall is an Associate Professor at the School of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. who specializes in technology and innovation management, corporate strategy and strategies for sustainable development.
Jerry Lemmon. B.Sc., P.Biol.P.Ag.
Mr. Lemmon is the President of Razorquest inc., consulting to organizations focused on growth and increasing their position in today’s competitive marketplace. razorquest services include investor readiness, growth strategy, executive mentorship and organizational transformation. Mr. Lemmon has a diversified background, consulting to corporations on executive management and corporate leadership as a Director at the Banff Centre for Management. He has also held the position of Director, Advanced Technology Centre for The University College of the Cariboo where his main focus was business incubation, and evaluating technology and its commercial viability. Prior to accepting his role at The Banff Centre, Mr. Lemmon was a Marketing Manager with Monsanto Canada Inc. Mr. Lemmon is also a Fellow with THECIS (The Centre for Innovation Studies), where he contributes regularly to the advancement of innovation and technology commercialization in Alberta.
Les Bowd, MBA, DBA
Dr. Bowd has held senior positions in the public and private sector, including Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Saskatchewan and Director of Strategic Change/Planning for Agrium Inc. As Director, Executive Development at the Calgary Centre for Executive Education, Faculty of Management, University of Calgary his current research focuses on the strategic roles of middle managers.