O'Connor, Gina C.

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor
Faculty Director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship

oconng@rpi.edu
518-276-6842

Areas: Management Processes for Breakthrough Innovation, New Market Creation, Opportunity Identification for Novel Technologies

Areas of Instruction:  Commercialization of Advanced Technology, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Marketing Management, New Product Development

Education

• Ph.D., Marketing and Corporate Strategy, New York University
• M.S., Marketing, New York University
• M.B.A, St. Louis University
• B.A., Psychology, St. Louis University

Research and Publications

Professor O’Connor has published more than thirty journal papers, twenty-five conference papers, and more than 10 books and book chapters. She has been named one of the top twenty five scholars in the field of innovation in a study recently published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Her most recent book, Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breatkthough Innovation (Jossey Bass, 2008) describes a research program she has led for five years that focuses on how firms can develop management systems for innovation, leading to Innovation as a business function in companies.

View selected abstracts of Prof. O’Connor’s published papers:

• "Major Innovation as a Dynamic Capability," 2008
• "Implementing a Learning Plan to Counter Project Uncertainty," 2008
• "Organizing for Radical Innovation," 2006

Hosted Conferences

• Corporate Entrepreneurship Conference
• Marketing & Innovation Mini-Conference

View Prof. O’Connor’s CV

Prof. O’Connor’s Grabbing Lightning blog