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About Fred After a dozen years as a market research executive, Fred Phillips was professor, dean, and vice provost at a variety of universities in the US, Europe, and South America. He is a Senior Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin.

Fred is Senior Editor of the journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change. He is on the editorial boards of International Journal of Global Environmental Issues and Journal of Sustainable Technologies for Growing Economies, and is MOTI (Management of Technology and Innovation) Editor for Elsevier’s SciTopics pages.

He authored the textbook Market-Oriented Technology Management (Springer 2001); the popular title The Conscious Manager: Zen for Decision Makers (General Informatics 2003); a book on high-tech economic development, The Technopolis Columns (Palgrave 2006); and (as editor, series editor, and author of several of the chapters) Managing Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (Meyer & Meyer 2009).

Dr. Phillips has been a consultant to such organizations as Intel, Texas Instruments, and Frito-Lay Inc., and has consulted worldwide on technology-based regional development. He is a founder of the Austin Technology Council, and was a Board member of the Software Association of Oregon.

Dr. Phillips attended The University of Texas and Tokyo Institute of Technology. His mentors were Operations Research pioneers Abraham Charnes, W.W. Cooper, and George Kozmetsky. He earned the Ph.D. at Texas (1978) in mathematics and management science. His own contributions in Operations Research include "Phillips' Law" of longitu¬dinal sampling, and the first parallel computing experiments with Data Envelopment Analysis.

Married to Sue Phillips since 1979 and with two grown daughters, Fred enjoys his mission as an educator. In the past five years he has taught or spoken at universities in Mexico, Peru, Suriname, the Netherlands, Malta, Cyprus, Egypt, Kuwait, Tanzania, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Guatemala, and Vietnam
His avocational passions are aikido, Argentine tango, travel and writing. He blogs at consciousmanager.blogspot.com, and is constructing “Dr. Phillips’ Management Research Page” on the web for his doctoral students and other new researchers.

In November, 2009, he will be keynote speaker at the UNESCO-World Technopolis Association conference in Daejon, Korea.

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