Georg Tovstiga, a Canadian and German national, is an Associate Professor in Henley Management College's School of Growth, Innovation and Enterprise. He has extensive international experience as management educator, industry practitioner, author and consultant, with almost 20 years industry management experience, notably in the areas of R&D, innovation and engineering management with Xerox Research (Canada) and Bayer AG (Germany) and ABB (Switzerland) AG. Prior to joining Henley, George consulted for Arthur D. Little (Switzerland) Ltd’s Strategic Growth and Innovation Practice. Professor Tovstiga's teaching and research focuses on competitive strategy, and strategic innovation and technology management.
He has authored numerous papers and book contributions on these topics; His most recent book “Capabilities for Strategic Advantage; Leading through Technological Innovation”, co-authored with David W. Birchall, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2005. He is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout the world.
Professor Tovstiga holds BASc and MSc degrees in chemical engineering from the Universities of Ottawa (Canada) and Massachusetts (USA), respectively; a docorate in engineering sciences (Dr sc techn) from the ETH Zurich; he studied business and and economics at the London Business School (UK) and the University of Twente (NL), from where he received an MBA.

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ICI-33 Development and Implementation of Dynamic Competitive Strategies (EN)