Gerry George is Professor and Deputy Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and serves as the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre at Imperial. The Centre facilitates Imperial College's strategic commitments in India for joint research initiatives and educational programmes in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Professor George was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to work on resource-constrained or inclusive innovation. His book on business models (with Adam Bock), Models of Opportunity: How Entrepreneurs Design Firms to Achieve the Unexpected, will be published February 2012 by Cambridge University Press .
Professor George’s work investigates business models, organisational design, and its implications for innovation and entrepreneurship in multiple settings including prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and rural electrification in Kenya and Tanzania, a five-year Energy for Development collaborative project Southampton University, among others.
An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor George has published several articles in leading scholarly journals. Professor George was an Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Innovation Fellow (2007 - 2009). His previous book Inventing Entrepreneurs: Technology Innovators and their Entrepreneurial Journey (Prentice Hall, 2008) addresses the human side of innovation and technology transfer. He is an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal.
He serves as a non-executive director of India Infrastructure Financing Corporation (UK) Limited, which provides dollar denominated financing for capital equipment in large Indian infrastructure projects such as power generation, urban mass transit, and ports among others.
Before joining Imperial, he held tenured positions at the London Business School, where he served as Faculty Director of the Institute of Technology, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directed the Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship Program.
