 Scott Tiffin, PhD
Expertise
- Project design and management, especially for international teams
- Marketing of knowledge-intensive products and services to
international customers
- Communication in reports, seminars, websites and promotional
materials
- Design of specialized instrumentation and analytical techniques
- Research, knowledge and innovation management
- Building and managing research and innovation networks
- Design and management of training programs, specialization in
e-learning
- Entrepreneurship - developing concepts into organizational
structures, accreting resources, building teams, undertaking startup
operations
Experience
Initiated career in the petroleum industry, in 1974, working on: offshore
structures and operations design for East Coast; Arctic field engineering
for production sites; environmental management for PetroCanada's LNG tanker
project; PhD thesis on Calgary Arctic offshore petroleum industry as an
innovation cluster. After finishing PhD in 1982, undertook: consulting for
developing countries and international organizations relating to management
of research, technology and innovation in natural resource sectors; research
management, strategic management and teaching in business schools; project
management for research funding agencies. Lived 11 years outside Canada, in
USA, Africa and Latin America. Set up 2 businesses: 1 in Calgary to produce
decision-support software to valuate risky technology & project investments;
1 in Chile, an ecotourism resort offering training for corporate creativity.
Author of 3 books, 23 academic publications, 1 business case, 1 business
magazine column, 52 consulting reports. Languages: English, French, Spanish,
Portuguese, German, Swedish. With Canatec since early 2008.
Education
Ph.D. Technology Management, U de Montr�al 1982
M.E.Des. Environmental Science, U of Calgary 1978
M.Eng. Ocean Engineering, Memorial U of Newfoundland 1974
B.A.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, U of Toronto
1971
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