Rowan Gilmore

ROWAN GILMORE

Dr. Rowan Gilmore was the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC) from May 2003 to June 2011, where he was responsible for leading the organisation in its mission to help businesses, research organisations and governments accelerate the commercialisation of their know-how and technology. He is Chairman of EM Clarity Pty Ltd, Chairman of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Engineered Quantum Systems, and Director of EM Solutions Pty Ltd.

He is a graduate from the University of Queensland, and continues to have strong links with it, holding adjunct professorships in both the School of Business and the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.

Coaching SMEs to Innovate

In this article Dr Rowan Gilmore shares lessons from the AIC’s Innovation Coaching program which was first introduced to help Queensland (Australia) SMEs in 2009. The program works with SMEs in a number of industry sectors, helping company management to “think outside the box” to grow their business or develop new products and services.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:55:07-08:00July 18th, 2011|Categories: Strategies, Support for SMEs|Tags: business growth, case study, in-depth article, innovation coaching, Innovation Management, innovation training, knowledge transfer, lessons learned, measuring success, Open Innovation, skills development, SME, smes, startup, Success, training, value chain|