DARIUS MAHDJOUBI, Ph.D.
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E-Mail: darius@ischool.utexas.edu
Dr.
Darius Mahdjoubi is a Visiting Scholar at the Innovation, Creativity and Capital
(IC2) Institute of The University of Texas at Austin, an Adjunct Professor at
St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas and in the School of Innovation in Haugesund,
Norway, and an Innovation Navigator. Darius has an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree
from The University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation is entitled "Knowledge,
Innovation and Entrepreneurship" which he conducted under the mentorship
of the late Dr. George Kozmetsky. The dissertation used the metaphor of navigation
to explore the process of innovation. The dissertation also underlined the deficiency
of conventional formal business plans in the processes related to innovation
and entrepreneurship. Currently he is working on a research project to develop
Action Business Planning, which is a migration from conventional formal business
plans.
Prior to his doctoral studies, he was a senior consultant at DMA, a consulting
firm in Toronto, Canada. He specialized in "Innovation Strategies and Management
of Technology." Between 1994 and 1997 he was active in the "Regional
Innovation Strategy Project," funded by the Federal Department of Human
Resources Development Canada - HRDC. As part of the project he developed "The
Mapping of Innovation" which uses the analogy of avigation to explicate
the process of innovation. In 1999 he met Dr. George Kozmetsky, who suggested
an interdisciplinary Ph.D. study on knowledge and innovation, which would lead
to the development of "The Atlas of Innovation" as an extension of
"The Mapping of Innovation". The interdisciplinary dissertation is
a result of this effort. As a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), he focuses his
practice in facilities planning and industrial factory setup.
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Action Business
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The
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