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Gerry George or Gerard George is professor of innovation and entrepreneurship and founding director of The Rajiv Gandhi Centre
at Imperial College London. Named after Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, the Centre was launched in December 2007 at Mumbai to facilitate research, technology and educational partnerships between Imperial College and Indian organisations and businesses,,. George notably hosts the Innovation for Inclusive Growth annual conference at Imperial College with a focus on energy, and healthcare access in less developed countries. The Centre's 'Conversations with India' talk series provides a platform for topics of relevance to the UK-India partnership. This series was launched by Dr. Sam Pitroda and features prominent leaders in UK and India.
In 2010, he was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council for his research on resource-constrained innovation and inclusive growth,. From 2007 - 2009, he was an Innovation Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research. He conducts executive development programmes in India on the topics of innovation management, global growth and entrepreneurship, and managing in turbulent times.
Gerard George has numerous academic papers to his credit and is probably best known for his widely cited co-authored paper on absorptive capacity of firms with Professor Shaker Zahra. Another contribution is on the performance consequences of slack in private firms. He showed the "less is more" philosophy or that 'resource constraints' improves financial performance in small and medium sized enterprises. He has co-authored other papers on internationalisation and entrepreneurship, patenting and licensing, and innovation management. His book 'Inventing Entrepreneurs: Technology Innovators and their Entrepreneurial Journey' focuses on scientists in academic and corporate environments who pursue entrepreneurial careers.
Before his Chair at Imperial College London, he was a professor at London Business School
and the University of Wisconsin-Madison . He is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. He is actively involved in developing junior faculty in entrepreneurship and strategic management. He was on the program committee
of the Strategic Management Society special conference on India
held December 2008 at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He is known to have strong entrepreneurial interest and active in creating new businesses .
