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Ernst |
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James
G. Conley
James Conley serves on the faculty of both
the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.
He is a faculty contributor in the Kellogg
Center for Research in Technology and Innovation
and serves as a principal founder of the Kellogg
Innovation Network. His research investigates
the strategic use of intangible assets and
intellectual properties to build and sustain
competitive advantage. Additionally, he engineers
product design and development technologies
and studies the impact of computer automation
on product realization. Research sponsors
include the National Science Foundation, NASA,
FAA, NIST, the Department of Defense, Motorola, Daimler-Chrysler, the OECD and others. Professor Conley
teaches courses on Innovation Process Management,
Intellectual Capital Management, and other related
subjects to undergraduate, graduate and executive
education audiences.
Beyond Kellogg and Northwestern, he serves on the
visiting faculty of Kellogg partner institutions such
as the Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management
at the WHU in Germany, the Recanati and High Tech
Management Graduate Schools of Tel Aviv University
in Israel, the Schulich School of Business at York
University in Canada, and at the Keio University Business
School in Japan.
In June of 2004, he received the Professor of the
Year award from the Master of Product Development
program at Northwestern University. He was awarded
the General Electric Foundation Professorship in 1994
and the Pentair-Nugent Professorship in Manufacturing
and Business Leadership in 1996. Additionally, his
publications have been recognized with “Best
Paper” commendations from the American Foundry
Society, the Society of Automotive Engineers, The
Rapid Prototyping Journal and others. In November
of 2003 he delivered the Heinz-Nixdorf Lecture at
the WHU on the subject of Intellectual Capital Management.
Professor Conley’s scholarship is informed by
professional practice. In 1994, he founded Syndia
Corporation together with the late Jerome Lemelson
and entrepreneur Roger Hickey. In addition to being
an inventor (7 issued US patents and others pending),
Conley through Syndia has grown and acquired a portfolio
of intellectual properties that Syndia licenses to
entities in Asia, North America and Europe. Additionally,
he serves as a Principal at Chicago Partners, LLC.
Before joining Northwestern in 1994, he spent seven
years at the Ryobi Limited Group of companies in Japan
with management responsibility in product engineering
and product development. There, he led substantial
Ryobi product innovation programs for both automotive
and consumer durable products.
James is conversational in the Japanese language.
He is married to his kindergarten classmate Sally
and they have 4 children.
Selected Publications:
Zang, Israel; Kamien, Morton; Conley, James Gerard, GameTheory and Brand Management
in Pharmaceuticals, 2005.
Conley, James
Gerard, Manejando la propriedad
intelectual en el mercado global (Estrategia
y Negocios), 2005.
Conley, James
Gerard, Patents Come and Go - Trademarks
are Forever (Executive Counsel), 2005.
Bordas, Stephane;
Moran, Brian; Conley, James Gerard, Damage Tolerance Analysis
of the B757 EE Access Door, 2004.
Conley, James
Gerard, Game Over: Emulation and
the Video Game Industry (Journal of Technology
and Intellectual Property ), 2004.
Conley, James
Gerard; Bordas, Stephane; Moran, Brian, Integrated Design Analysis
of the B757 EE Access Door, 2004.
Conley, James
Gerard, Managing IP in the Global
Marketplace: Practitioners Perspective
(Kellogg World), 2004.
Conley, James
Gerard; Bordas, Stephane; Moran, Brian, Static Strength Analysis
of the B757 EE Access Door, 2004.
Conley, James
Gerard; Wolcott, Robert W. , Scaling from Prototype
to Production: A Managed Process, 2003.
Conley, James
Gerard, 3M ESPE AG: Intellectual
Property Strategy in the Dental Impressions
Market - Kellogg Teaching Case, 2002.
Conley, James
Gerard, RIAA vs. myMP3.com - Kellogg
Teaching Case, 2002.
Conley, James
Gerard, Ryobi Outdoor Products:
Kellogg Teaching Case, 2002.
Conley, James
Gerard; Scarry, J. T.; Wang, W, System and Method for Ameliorating
Subcontracting Risk (United States Patent
Application #0087380), 2002.
Conley, James
Gerard; Wolcott, Robert, United We Stand: Graftech's
Relationship with Ballard Power - Kellogg
Teaching Case, 2002.
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Clinton
W. Francis
Professor Clinton Francis is a tenured member
of the Northwestern University School of Law faculty. He teaches and researches in the
areas of Intellectual Property, E-Commerce,
Commercial Law and Bankruptcy. Professor Francis
has specialized in computer-assisted instruction
and has developed several business simulation
software. Most recently he has formed a business
venture for partnering law firms with Northwestern
University for the production and delivery
of online legal instruction for corporations
and professionals. He has published articles
in the area of Intellectual Property, Commercial
Law and Legal History. He has also conducted
an online salon dealing with Intellectual
Property, as well as
distance learning, Business Simulation courses.
Professor Francis obtained his initial legal training
in New Zealand, where he completed LLB and LLM degrees
and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the
New Zealand Supreme Court. After teaching for several
years at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand,
Professor Francis completed a doctorate in law (SJD)
at the University of Virginia Law School, with scholarships
from the Fulbright and Dupont Foundations. He came
to Northwestern from University of California Berkeley
Law School, where he taught as an associate. Since
joining the Northwestern University School of Law
faculty in 1978, Professor Francis has been the recipient
of numerous teaching awards and has served on and
chaired a variety of University and Law School committees.
He also serves on the Board of Advisors for two
corporations: LogicJunction and Near North National
Group.
Selected Publications:
Francis, Clinton W., "Practice, Strategy, and Institution: Debt Collection
in the English Common-Law Courts, 1740-1840," Northwestern University Law Review.
Francis, Clinton W., "The Structure
of Judicial Administration and the Development of
Contract Law in 17th-Century England," Columbia
Law Review.
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Holger
Ernst
Dr. Ernst is the Chair for Technology and
Innovation Management at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany. His research
areas include: Technology and Innovation Management,
Marketing, Entrepreneurship, E-Business and
quantitative techniques for data analyses.
Dr. Ernst studied at the universities in Kiel
and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received
his doctorate and habilitation at Kiel University.
His numerous publications have appeared in
notable national and international journals.
Dr. Ernst is an expert consultant to several
journals in Germany and abroad, and to notable
national and international companies. He is
the head of innovation success panel to improve
innovation management by
benchmarking
Selected Publications:
Ernst, H., Success Factors of New
Product Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature,
in: International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol.
4, No. 1, 2002, pp. 1-40.
Ernst, H., Patent Applications and
Subsequent Changes of Performance: Evidence from Time-Series
Cross-Section Analyses on the Firm Level, in: Research
Policy, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2001, pp. 143-157.
Ernst, H., Vitt, J., The Influence
of Corporate Acquisitions on the Behaviour of Key
Inventors, in: R&D Management, Vol. 30, No. 2,
2000, pp. 105-119.
Ernst, H., Leptien, C., Vitt, J., Inventors are not alike: The Distribution of Patenting
Output among Industrial R&D Personnel, in: IEEE
Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 47, No.
2, 2000, pp. 184-199.
Brockhoff, K., Ernst, H., Hundhausen, E.,
Gains and Pains from Licensing - Patent-Portfolios
as Strategic Weapons in the Cardiac Rhythm Management
Industry, in: Technovation, Vol. 19, Nr. 10, 1999,
pp. 605-614.
Ernst, H., Teichert, T., The R&D/Marketing
Interface and Single Informant Bias in NPD Research:
An Illustration of a Benchmarking Case Study, in:
Technovation, 1998, Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 721-739.
Ernst, H., Industrial Research as
a Source of Important Patents, in: Research Policy,
1998, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 1-15.
Ernst, H., Patent Portfolios for
Strategic R&D Planning, in: Journal of Engineering
and Technology Management, 1998, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.
279-308.
Ernst, H., The Use of Patent Data
for Technological Forecasting: The Diffusion of CNC-Technology
in the Machine Tool Industry, in: Small Business Economics,
Vol. 9, No. 4, 1997, pp. 361-381.
Ernst, H., Patenting Strategies in
the German Mechanical Engineering Industry and their
Relationship to Company Performance, in: Technovation,
Vol. 15, No. 4, 1995, pp. 225-240.
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David
Orozco M.
David Orozco received his juris doctor degree
from Northwestern Law School in 2004. Prior
to that he worked at the New York office of
BBVA, a large European bank, where he was
a loan analyst. He received his bachelors
in economics from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is currently a
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center
for Research on Technology and Innovation
at the Kellogg School Management, where he
focuses on strategic uses of Intellectual
Property. David advises early stage ventures
on IP matters. In addition, he co-teaches
the course Innovation and Invention at the
McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern
University with Professor James G.
Conley. David is fluent in Spanish.
Selected Publications:
Orozco, David M., Broad Stock Ownership: The Hurdle for Minority Shareholder
Rights Development in Latin America, 10 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L. (Summer 2004).
Orozco, David M., Intellectual Property – The Ground Rules,
Kellogg School of Management, Technical Note 7-305-501 (August 30, 2005).
Orozco, David M., Patent Roadmap, Kellogg School of Management, Technical Note, forthcoming.
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Paul Flignor
Paul Flignor is President of The Chicago Valuation Group, an IP valuation firm focused on business, tax, and legal issues. Paul is also an adjunct Professor at Northwestern University. He an be reached at: pflignor@sbcglobal.net or at 312.404.0437
