Prof. Dr. Gilles Garel

FULL CHAIR PROFESSOR OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AT THE CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DES ARTS ET MÉTIERS (NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, PARIS FRANCE)

Gilles Garel is tenured Professor of the Chair of InnovationManagement

at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris France), and former Professor of the Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the Ecole polytechnique and previously held a position of Professor at the University of Paris Est and also at the school of management of Ottawa University, Canada (by now Telfer School of management). He holds a PhD at Ecole polytechnique (1994) and his tenure track (HDR) et IAE University Panthéon Sorbonne (1998). Gilles Garel conducts research into design and innovation management in direct collaboration with firms and innovative organisations in various sectors. He is also a researcher at the LIRSA (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research into Action Sciences, Cnam) and former director of LIRSA and of the Innovation departement at the Cnam. He has been published in a range of learned journals and has contributed papers and presentations at numerous conferences and seminars. He is notably co-author, with co-inventor of the Swatch watch Elmar Mock, of “The Innovation Factory” (Dunod / CRC Press Taylor and Francis 2016).