Prolific inventors are an asset to any business. But do you have to find a genius or can you become one yourself? Find out how you can learn and perfect your innovation skills.
Event Details
Like any other skill, the innovation process can be taught, refined, and practiced. Dean Alderucci, an innovation consultant, innovator and Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business will be discussing some uncommon innovation techniques, how to identify opportunities to create valuable inventions and how to assess their value.
Speaker Profiles
Dean Alderucci (Speaker)
Innovation Consultant, Inventor and Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management
Dean Alderucci is an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he teaches Innovation Strategy. Dean is an innovation consultant, specializing in creating inventions, teaching how to invent, and redesigning corporate patent processes. Dean was previously Vice President of Cantor Fitzgerald, a global financial services firm, where he founded and was Chief Operating Officer of its Innovation Division. Before that he was Chief Counsel and Senior Vice President of Intellectual Property Strategy at Walker Digital, an R & D laboratory and business incubator best known for creating and spinning off Priceline.com.
Dean operates directly in all aspects of innovation, including business opportunity analysis, inventing, patent strategy, patent creation, licensing, commercialization, researching innovation and teaching innovation. He developed the field of formal processes for generating inventions that both are patentable and have maximum licensing value. He is an inventor on more than 140 granted and 250 pending U.S. patents. His patents have been purchased by companies such as Facebook, eBay, Groupon, and Hewlett-Packard. His inventions span a wide range of fields including new business models, e-commerce systems, financial services, microprocessor design, robotically-assisted surgery, bioinformatics and computer networking.
Dean's research focuses on relatively unexplored areas at the intersection of inventing and operations. His principal research interests include formal strategy frameworks for inventing, applying operations research to corporate patent processes, applying software development techniques to patent creation, IDEs for patents, high speed patent production and new patenting techniques designed for extremely high value inventions.
He holds M.S. degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, and Operations Research, as well as an M.B.A. and a J.D.
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