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James
M. Utterback
David
J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of
Management and Innovation
Professor of Engineering Systems
Jim
Utterback is David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management
and Innovation and Professor of Engineering Systems at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since receiving the
Ph.D. in 1968 from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Prof.
Utterback has held faculty positions at Indiana University,
the Harvard Business School, and Chalmers Technical University
as well as MIT. From 1983 through 1988, he served as Director
of Industrial Liaison at MIT. His research has focused on
the process of technological innovation in firms in the
United States and in other countries. He is author of Mastering
the Dynamics of Innovation, published by Harvard Business
School Press in 1994 and of Design-Inspired Innovation,
published by World Scientific Press in 2006. Recent publications
include contributions to Management Science, Research
Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Technological
Forecasting and Social Change and The Sloan Management
Review.
Jim's
teaching focus is on understanding the dynamics of product
and process development, emerging and disruptive technologies,
and the varied roles of firms as predators and prey when
new technologies emerge. His current research focuses on
the sustained growth of newly formed design and technology-based
firms in the United States, Sweden, Italy and the United
Kingdom.
Jim
is one of the founding faculty of the Management of Technology
Program (now called the Sloan Fellows in Innovation and
Global Leadership), which was the first area of study at
MIT that awarded degrees jointly from the Schools of Management
and Engineering. He is also one of the founders of the Leaders
for Manufacturing Program (now called Leaders for Global
Operations), which awards dual degrees in engineering and
in management and has recently helped develop a similar
program in Biomedical Enterprise.
Jim
received the D.Sc. (Hon) from Chalmers University in Gothenburg,
Sweden in 1997, and was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1999. He
is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the Argonne
National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, and was recently
elected a Life Fellow of Clare Hall at the University of
Cambridge.
Updated
June 2007
News
and announcements:
Publications
by James M. Utterback
Design-Inspired
Innovation, co-authored by Prof. Utterback, to be published
soon (August 18, 2006)
Professor
James Utterback Receives Two Honors (August 30,
2004)
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