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Member Information
James D. Thompson, MBA
Associate Director, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs
Director, Societal Wealth Program
The Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania
Office Phone: 215-573-7345
Office Fax: 215-898-1299
Email: jamestho@wharton.upenn.edu
Website(s): http://www.wep.wharton.upenn.edu/teaching/faculty/thompson.html
Education: MBA, Graduate School of Business , University of Cape Town , South Africa; PhD candidate, EPFL, Lausanne , Switzerland
Keywords: Societal Wealth Generation; Innovation, change & entrepreneurial management; Technology commercialization.
Research and/or Clinical interests:
Interests include the use of Information and Communications Technology to improve patient outcomes, the deployment of Entrepreneurship as a means with which to attend to social problems, the commercialization of technology, the development of a method of rapidly identifying appropriate markets for the successful commercialization of technology; and to establish an effective means of increasing the "speed-to-market" capabilities of growth-oriented and technology-producing firms.
Research Summary:
His primary research interest is programs for corporate growth. He is engaged in field research to develop a method of rapidly identifying appropriate markets for the successful commercialization of technology; and to establish an effective means of increasing the "speed-to-market" capabilities of growth-oriented and technology producing firms. He also manages the Societal Wealth Generation program, a Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs initiative which helps design, seed, or grow entrepreneurial firms that generate revenues while alleviating societal plights.
Representative Publications:
MacMillan I. C., van Putten A., McGrath R., Thompson J. D. "Convincing your CFO: using Real Options Discipline for highly uncertain technology investments." Research Technology Management: January-February 2006: 29-37. Industrial Research Institute
Book contribution Spring 2006: "'LocalFeed': Societal Wealth Generation in Southern Africa. " with MacMillan, I.C. in Perrini F. et al: The New Social Entrepreneurship: What Awaits Social Entrepreneurship Ventures. Cheltenham.: Edward Elgar
