Visiting Scholars and Adjunct Professors at the ECIC

Visiting Scholar
Adjunct Professor

Professor Thomas Baaken

Thomas was Visiting Professor at the ECIC in 2003/2004.  During that stay, he held the 1st Science-to-Business Marketing Conference which has since been replicated across the world.  Thomas was appointed Adjunct Professor with the ECIC in 2008.

Thomas was appointed Leader of the European Union (EU) working group “University Interaction with Industry”, which published the Handbook “Responsible Partnering – A guide to better practices for collaborative research and knowledge transfer between science and industry” under ProTon Europe.

Visiting Scholar
Adjunct Professor

Associate Professor Piet Beukman

As well as working at ECIC, Piet Beukman is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His main activity is screening and developing business opportunities from research work done within the university. Piet's academic interests are in the area of innovation management, the philosophy of technology, technology development and the commercialisation of scientific research.

He has extensive experience in the field of allocating research and funding priorities to development projects in the military field, where he worked with the DRDC - Defence Research Development Council as a consultant. He also has experience in drafting legislation governing the responsible international utilisation and transfer of dual-use technology, for which he received a national award.

Piet is a former Director of the Engineering Management Programme in the School of Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He was also a board member of Continuing Education at the university. He has also been involved in a number of high-technology start-up ventures as investor, consultant, CEO, shareholder and director. He assisted the city of Christchurch with the establishment of a high-tech incubator, including an entrepreneurs' forum, as well as with establishing a commercially viable waste recycling operation. Piet is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers, New Zealand.

Visiting Scholar

Professor Dennis Foley

Professor Dennis Foley is a Research Academic at the University of Newcastle. He is a Fulbright Scholar and an Endeavour Fellow, his publications focus on social inclusion and cross several disciplines from Indigenous literature, history, Indigenous studies to business management (entrepreneurship) and education. Principle areas of research are in Indigenous entrepreneurship and Indigenous epistemology. Dennis identifies as a Koori, his matrilineal connection is Gai-mariagal of the Guringah language group, and his father is a descendant of the Capertee/Turon River people, of the Wiradjuri.

He is the author of the ethnographic text ‘Repossession: of our Spirit’ published by Aboriginal History Inc. and co-author of the successful 2006 Education text, ‘Education, Change and Society’ Sydney: Oxford University Press. Other publications include a research monograph titled ‘Successful Indigenous Australian Entrepreneurs: a Case Study Analysis’ University of Queensland; the 2006 peer reviewed discussion paper ‘Indigenous Australian Entrepreneurs: Not Community and Not in the Outback’, CAEPR reference DP. 279/2006 at The ANU; a 2006 book chapter ‘Indigenous Australian Entrepreneurs’ in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice: (Asia Pacific Edition); and the 2007 book chapter ‘Leadership the quandary of Aboriginal societies in crises: 1788 to 1830, and 1966’ in Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories, by Aboriginal History, The ANU.

Visiting Scholar

Professor Suleiman Kassicieh

Suleiman Kassicieh is an ASM Endowed Chair in Economic Development and Distinguished Professor of Management of Technology at the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico. He is a co-founder of the Management of Technology program at the Anderson Schools which was ranked in the top 10 in the US (2004 Linton article in Journal of Product Innovation Management). Dr. Kassicieh serves on a number of boards for small technology startups as well as on the advisory board for the Verge Venture Fund. He is the developer of the UNM Business Plan Competition and consults with a number of national and international organizations in areas such as economic development based on technology, technology commercialization, strategic planning and venture funding.

Visiting Scholar
Adjunct Professor

Associate Professor Fredric Kropp

Fredric Kropp is Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and International Marketing at the Fisher International Graduate School of Business at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California. Fredric has taught at Bond University in Australia and South Africa, the University of Oregon, the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, and other major universities in the US and Canada.

He specializes in market planning, market research, forecasting, policy analysis, and technology assessments. Past clients include Hewlett-Packard, Peace Health Medical Center, Timex, General Electric, PanAmerican Airways, and Dow-Corning. Government clients include the US Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Aviation Administration. He also conducts workshops and seminars in creativity and innovation.

His main role at the ECIC is working on joint research projects with Professor Noel Lindsay.

Visiting Scholar

Professor Roger Maull

Roger Maull is a Professor of Management in the University of Exeter Business School. He has a BA in Economics, and an MSc in Management Information Systems. He gained his PhD in 1986 in the use of the business process modelling in manufacturing His major research interests are in applying systems thinking within the management of business operations.

He has developed and delivered a wide range of process modelling courses for companies such as Vodafone, Woolwich, IBM, and ICL, Rank Xerox, GKN/Westland Aerospace, Lloyds/TSB, Scottish Amicable Scottish Power, British Aerospace, Motability Finance Ltd, DuPont, Fujitsu, Prudential and Sprint PCS. He has been awarded international grants to work with industry in the USA, Australia, Germany and Italy. He regularly acts as a BPM advisor for a wide ranging group of companies and public bodies including; Vodafone, LloydsTSB, Britannia Building Society, Compaq, IBM, hospital trusts, Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), Met Police. He has successfully supervised eleven PhD students and examined twelve PhDs.

Visiting Scholar

Professor Frank Schultmann

Frank Schultmann is a full professor and holds the Chair of Business Administration, Production and Operations Management at the Institute for Industrial Production, the University Karlsruhe. He studied Business Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and was research assistant and head of two research groups at Institute for Industrial Production and the French-German Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Karlsruhe. He completed his doctoral thesis (1998) at the Faculty of Economics and Business Engineering and his habilitation (2003) receiving the venia legendi (teaching authority) in Management Science. In 2003, he was appointed to the position of an associate professor at the University of Karlsruhe. In 2003, he was offered a professorship of Business Administration at the University of Bremen. In 2004 he was appointed to the professorship of Industrial Management at the University of Koblenz-Landau, where he was head of the Department “Industry, Production and Logistics”. In 2004 he was appointed to his present position.