Institutional Leadership in Renewable Energy Development: Filling the Institutional Void
Presented by the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson School of Business in collaboration with Concordia University's Solar Buildings Research Network Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
2:00pm - 3:30pm
1450 Guy Street (corner of de Maisonneuve Blvd.), Room MB 6.260
Montreal, Quebec. Click here to view map.
Admission is free but seats are limited, please arrive early.
Alfred Marcus is the Edson Spence Chair of Strategy and Technological Leadership at the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management and the Center for Technological Leadership. He has been at the University of Minnesota since 1984. He is the author/co-author of 14 books including Strategic Foresight (Palgrave MacMillan) that was published in 2009 and Big Winners and Big Losers published (Wharton School Press) that was published in 2006. His academic articles have appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and other journals. His Ph.D is from Harvard and he has undergraduate and grad degrees from the University of Chicago. He has consulted with such corporations as 3M, Corning, Xcel Energy, Medtronic, General Mills, and IBM. Prior to Minnesota, he was on the University of Pittsburgh Business School faculty and was a Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers in Seattle research scientist. His 1991-1992 sabbatical was taken at the Sloan School MIT. He has foreign teaching experience in Norway, China, Costa Rica, and Eastern Europe and since 2005 he also has been teaching in the MBA program of the Technion in Israel.
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The David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
Centre d’études David O’Brien sur la durabilité des entreprises
Lee Ann Smith
David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
John Molson School of Business
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(514)848-2424 ext 5131
Thursday, March 11, 2010
2:00pm - 3:30pm
1450 Guy Street (corner of de Maisonneuve Blvd.), Room MB 6.260
Montreal, Quebec. Click here to view map.
Admission is free but seats are limited, please arrive early.
Alfred Marcus
Alfred Marcus is the Edson Spence Chair of Strategy and Technological Leadership at the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management and the Center for Technological Leadership. He has been at the University of Minnesota since 1984. He is the author/co-author of 14 books including Strategic Foresight (Palgrave MacMillan) that was published in 2009 and Big Winners and Big Losers published (Wharton School Press) that was published in 2006. His academic articles have appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and other journals. His Ph.D is from Harvard and he has undergraduate and grad degrees from the University of Chicago. He has consulted with such corporations as 3M, Corning, Xcel Energy, Medtronic, General Mills, and IBM. Prior to Minnesota, he was on the University of Pittsburgh Business School faculty and was a Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers in Seattle research scientist. His 1991-1992 sabbatical was taken at the Sloan School MIT. He has foreign teaching experience in Norway, China, Costa Rica, and Eastern Europe and since 2005 he also has been teaching in the MBA program of the Technion in Israel.
Institutional Leadership in Renewable Energy Development: Filling the Institutional Void
Technology breakthroughs require that there be a strong institutional ecosystem in place which supports innovation. The Nobel Prize winning economist Doug North (2005) has established that major economic leaps forward do not rest on technology alone. They require a sound institutional foundation. The academic literature on industrial clusters such as California’s Silicon Valley bears witness to the importance of industrial ecosystems. Marcus will analyze the institutional climate for wind energy development in Minnesota and show how an institutional void set in that, retarded the development of this resource despite its immense promise. Making breakthroughs in sustainable renewable energy and energy conservation technologies necessitate new forms of cross-sector cooperation in which institutions from the public, private, and non-profit sectors discover ways to act in concert to bring about change.Download the event flyer
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The David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable EnterpriseCentre d’études David O’Brien sur la durabilité des entreprises
Lee Ann Smith
David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
John Molson School of Business
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(514)848-2424 ext 5131
