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Jay Paap is President of Paap Associates, serves on the faculty of the Industrial Relations Center at Cal Tech and has taught in Executive Programs at The Sloan School (MIT) and Haas School (Berkeley). He is a Fellow of The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) and a PDMA Certified New Product Development Professional.  Jay received his Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management with concentrations in technology management and organization design.  (Jay's Biography)

Jay has over forty years experience in technology management, including consulting and speaking assignments with over 300 firms in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific Rim. His clients include both government and commercial firms from such diverse industries as automotive, computers, electronics, energy, food processing, biotech, pharmaceuticals, oil, telecommunications, consumer products, aerospace, chemicals, defense, and various government agencies and Federal Labs.  (Representative clients)

Jay received the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) 2005 Maurice Holland Award for the best article published in Research Technology Management in 2004: "Anticipating Disruptive Innovation"

Caltech Webinar on "Using Technology Roadmaps to Stimulate Innovation" was held on 18 April 2008. The audio and slides are available as a WMV file on (Caltech IRC Webinar series web page)

Upcoming Engagements:

- May 19, 2008: “Opportunities and Challenges for Innovation in a Global Economy." Belo Horizonte, Brazil. (Keynote address). (ANPEI´s Annual Conference on Innovation)

- June 12, 2008: “Anticipating Innovation." Cambridge, Massachusetts. Executive Seminar sponsored by Academy of Competitive Intelligence. (Academy of CI)

- June 16-17, 2008: "Leveraging Intellectual Property to Accelerate Product & Technology Development" Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Management Roundtable seminar)

- July 10-11, 2008: "Building and Sustaining the Innovative Organization" Cambridge, Massachusetts. (MIT Sloan School Executive Program) (Also November 13-14, 2008)

- July 17-18, 2008: "Technology Strategy for R&D and New Product Development: A Customer Focused Framework" Pasadena, California. (Cal Tech IRC Executive Seminar) (Also October 23-24, 2008)

- July 22-23, 2008: "Competitive Technical Intelligence: Driving Innovation While Anticipating Competitors' Actions" Pasadena, California. (Cal Tech IRC Executive Seminar) (Also November 6-7, 2008)

- August 14-15, 2008: "Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation" Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Management Roundtable Seminar)

- September 3-4, 2008: “From Concept to Market: Growing your business through innovative product development." Monterrey, Mexico. (Seminarium)