Fred Phillips

Background

About Fred Phillips

Having finished another overseas adventure, as Distinguished Prof in Taiwan, and Visiting Scientist at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. I joined U of New Mexico in Fall, 2018, and retired in 2021. My firm advises on high tech economic development, higher education, and research policy, at Ministerial levels internationally. Our most recent engagements: Assessing Indonesia's national innovation system for UNESCO; and sci/tech/business foresight for Merck KGaA. I'm currently organizing the former Fellows of the IC2 Institute - an amazing brain trust - for ongoing opportunities now that UT-Austin has discontinued the Fellows program. See My personal missions are * Improving higher education,* Promoting technology management research, and innovation-based economic development,* Spreading the practice of aikido worldwide.* Improving performance at the personal, organizational and alliance levels. I have written, spoken, taught, and started new organizations to make these happen. Please visit:* My book 'Managing Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship'​ * My books on high-tech economic development and http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4471-5508-9 * Technological Forecasting & Social Change, the international journal of which I am Editor-in-Chief Emeritus: * My book The Conscious Manager: Zen for Decision Makers, Specialties: Technology mgt/forecasting/assessment; Academic administration & governance; General management; Managing multinational researchers, multidisciplinary projects, R&D and economic development alliances; R&D commercialization, innovation systems, TBED initiatives. My new (2019) book from Springer: