The Institute is a home for the most entrepreneurial of faculty around the world. The faculty of the Institute can directly advise and contribute to current, real-life innovation and operations problems.
Redefining Innovation
Bringing Entrepreneurship
to Global Organizations
Established since 2009, the Applied Innovation Institute is a Silicon Valley-based non-profit think tank dedicated to the creation and continuous development of innovation as it should be applied to real world issues.
Our Board
PARIS DE L’ETRAZ
Chairman of the Board
Professor of Entrepreneurship, IE Business School; Managing Director, Venture Lab, IE Business School
IKHLAQ SIDHU
Member of the Board
Member of the Board; Chief Scientist and Founding Director, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET); IEOR Emerging Area Professor Award Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley
JAMES TAN
Member of the Board
Managing Partner, Quest Ventures; Board of Directors, Action Community for Entrepreneurship; Co-founder, 55tuan (NASDAQ: WOWO)
Our Faculty
BILL AULET
Faculty Member
Managing Director, The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship & Senior Lecturer, MIT
BRENT SMITH
Faculty Member
Senior Associate Dean, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University
C. JEFFREY CHAR
Faculty Member
Entrepreneurship Program Adjunct Professor, IE Business School; Founder & CEO, J-Seed Ventures, Inc.
DANIEL CORSTEN
Faculty Member
Professor, IE Business School; Visiting Associate Professor, London Business School; President, ECR Research Foundation
ELAINE CHEN
Faculty Member
MIT Sloan School of Management, Founder and Managing Director, ConceptSpring
IKHLAQ SIDHU
Faculty Member
Chief Scientist and Founding Director, SCET; Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley
JOHANNES FLECKER
Faculty Member
Berklee ICE Startup Incubator Program, Berklee College of Music; Founder & CEO, Sound Leadership
MARIO ALONSO PUIG
Faculty Member
Medical Doctor and Fellow in Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University
MARK FRITZ
Faculty Member
Professor of Virtual Communication, IE Business School; Founder, Procedor Limited
MATTHIAS YEO
Faculty Member
Director of Agmonton Pte Ltd; Board Member, Housing and Development Board Singapore; Lead Independent Director, iFAST Corporation Ltd
MIKE LYONS
Faculty Member
Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University; Executive Chairman, CypherPath
PANOS PANAY
Faculty Member
Managing Director, Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship; Founder, Sonicbids
PARIS DE L’ETRAZ
Faculty Member
Professor of Entrepreneurship, IE Business School; Managing Director, Venture Lab, IE Business School
PEDRAM MOKRIAN
Faculty Member
Visiting Instructor, Stanford University; Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
PETER MATHIAS
Faculty Member
President and CEO, Financial and Professional Services, Mathias and Co. Services; Ph.D. , Harvard
ROY RICHARDS
Faculty Member
Chief Executive; Southwire Company; Corporate Governance and Board Management; IE
SERGIO KAPUSTA
Faculty Member
Chief Technology officer of Technel, Inc. Formerly, Manager of Physics & Materials Research; Shell International E&P, Inc.; Rice University
SIDNEY TAM
Faculty Member
Hong Kong University SPACE College Institute of China Business; Assistant Professor in Innovation Risk Management and Entrepreneurship; Hubei RaySolution Medical Digital Imaging Technologies Limited; CEO; Hong Kong Nasopharyngeal Foundation Funds; Honorary Secretary; Responsible for fund raising and donation programs
WON JOON KIM
Faculty Member
Associate Professor, KAIST; President, Asia Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (AIEA)
ZORAN PERUNOVIC
Faculty Member
Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark; Founder & CEO, ZP Consulting