Jon Thomas
Assistant Professor
school of buisiness
University of the Fraser Valley
Canada
Biography
Dr. Jon Thomas joined the University of the Fraser Valley as the BC Regional Innovation Chair in Canada-India Partnership Development in 2017. He has over a decade of teaching experience in Canada and India, and was teaching in the Management of Technology MBA program at Simon Fraser University (Canada) prior to joining UFV. He was awarded the AICTE National Doctoral Fellowship (India) and the MITACS Elevate Strategic Post-doctoral Fellowship (Canada) for his research.
Research Interest
Science-based entrepreneurship; science commercialization; biotechnology; biomedical; healthcare; clean technology; clean energy; technology innovation; strategy; entrepreneurship; star scientists; regional and national innovation systems; clusters; R&D efficiency
Publications
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Maine, E., Thomas, V. J., Bliemel, M., Murira, A., Utterback, J. (2014). The Emergence of the Nanobiotechnology Industry. Nature Nanotechnology, 9(1): 2–5.
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Thomas, V. J., Jain, S. K., Sharma, S. (2008), R&D Efficiency in the USA: An Application of DEA, GLOGIFT 2008, June 14-16, 2008, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, U.S.A.
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Patenting and Commercialization Strategy of a Star-Scientist: MIT’s Robert Langer 1st SFU Postdoctoral Research Day, Burnaby, Canada, May 2015 Centre for Drug Research and Development, Vancouver, Canada, May 2015 5th Beedie Innovation Conference, Vancouver, Canada, Jan. 2015
