Technology Management (RTM) Lunch & Learn Discussion with Ademir Vrolijk.
Vrolijk discussed a framework he and his coauthors created that highlights an innovation contest’s various nonsolution benefits and shows how practitioners can benefit from all contest stages.
Ademir Vrolijk is a PhD candidate in systems engineering at The George Washington University’s Engineering Management and Systems Engineering department. He was also a Visiting Researcher at Harvard University’s Laboratory for Innovation Science. He researches how technical organizations, such as NASA, can leverage crowdsourcing to solve complex problems. He has a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Carleton University and is an alumnus of the International Space University’s Space Studies Program. He has worked as a project management professional in the defense and medical technology industry. He also sat on the national board of the Canadian Space Society. avrolijk@email.gwu.edu
Vrolijk will present key findings from his paper published in RTM Volume 65, Issue 1.