Piet Beukman
Piet
is currently a director and shareholder of Holliday Corporation
Limited, a Christchurch angel investment and start-up business
development company and he is also the Director of the Engineering
Management Programme at the University of Canterbury.
He
holds the sole New Zealand rights for the
La
Salle Innovation
Matrix, a framework for thinking and innovation
created by
Roger
La Salle.
Well tested La Salle Thinking Matrices exist for:
Product Innovation
Process Innovation
Service Innovation
Organisational
Innovation
Opportunity capture
Strategy development
Piet
has worked in the consulting engineering, marine and aerospace
industries for 20 years. Piet served some time as the Chief Engineer of
an airline. During the transition period, Piet advised the South
African defence industry on the commercialisation of technologies. A
renowned "pracademic", Piet was involved with the establishment of the
Engineering Management Programme at the University of Pretoria.
Piet
was instrumental in the establishment of the Recovered Materials
Foundation in Christchurch, using innovation to turn waste materials
into business opportunities. He took the project from concept to being
its founding CEO. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the
Canterbury Innovation Incubator.
Piet is a former Director
of the Canterbury MBA Programme as well as an Associate Professor of
Systems Engineering and a former Director of Technology
Commercialisation at the University of South Australia. He is currently
an adjunct associate professor in the Entrepreneurship Centre for
Innovation and Commercialisation at the University of Adelaide.
Piet's
interests are in angel investment in the high-technology sector, the
management of engineering, innovation, commercialisation of technology,
new venture growth and university-industry linkages.
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