Prof. Shlomo Maital – TIM Academic Director & Faculty

Maital is the Academic Director of TIM-Technion Institute of Management, Prof. (emeritus) Technion, and senior researcher at the S. Neaman Institute, Technion. He was summer Visiting Professor for 20 years in MIT Sloan School of Management’s Management of Technology M.Sc. program, teaching over 1,000 R&D engineers from 40 countries. He is the author co-author or editor of eight books, including Global Risk/Global Opportunity (SAGE forthcoming 2010),   Innovation Management (SAGE 2007),  Executive Economics (The Free Press), translated into seven languages, and   Managing New Product Development & Innovation (Elgar, 2001).   He has written guest editorials for Barron’s, and writes a  regular column for the  Jerusalem Report (fortnightly). His research currently focuses on building creativity muscles — how to exercise your brain daily, to develop new skill and competency in applied innovation.  He has completed two marathons (New York, 1985, and Boston, 2007),  and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2008 with his son.