Developing the R&D Agenda: Maintaining flexibility
and managing the new technology pipeline
| Speaker : |
Dr. Louis Glasgow
Global Technology Director,
DuPont Fluoroproducts, USA |
| Date: |
October 11, 1999 (Monday) |
| Time: |
6.00 pm-7.30 pm(Light refreshments
will be available from 5.30pm - 6.00pm) |
| Venue: |
Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Auditorium,
Faculty of Business Administration,
National University of Singapore |
Abstract
Dr. Glasgow will address a number of management issues
which R&D managers encounter in a large multi-national
company. Some examples of these issues are:
i) How to integrate the R&D function?
ii) How to allocate resources effectively across various
SBU'S ?
iii) What criteria do you use to measure R&D performance?
iv) How do you motivate and reward professionals?
v) How do you manage the R&D function in a knowledge-based
economy ?
About the Speaker
Dr Louis Glasgow has been Global
Technology Director for DuPont Fluoroproducts since
January 1999. Prior to this, he was Director of Corporate
R&D Planning. Dr Glasgow received a B.S. degree
in Chemistry from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D
from the University of Wisconsin. He has done post-graduate
work at the Max-Planck-Institut in Germany and taught
at Northeastern University. He has been employed by
DuPont for the past 25 years and has held management
positions in several DuPont businesses including Nylon,
Lycra, Fluorochemicals and Nuclear Materials.
Dr Glasgow is a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and a member of the American
Chemical Society, Sigma Xi and Alpha Chi Sigma. He serves
on the National Research Council's Board for Chemical
Science and Technology; the NIST Physics Laboratory
Program Assessment Panel; and the Industrial Advisory
Boards of the Lawrence Berkeley Catalysis and Surface
Science Laboratory, and the University of California,
Santa Barbara, Materials Research Laboratory.
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to
attend the talk.
Light refreshments will be available from 5.30pm - 6.00pm.
As there are limited number of seats available, please
register for the talk by 6 October 1999 through
email to cmtlab1@nus.edu.sg; DID: 8745149 or
Fax: 7753955 with your name, designation, company name
and email address.
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