| Dr. Walsh is an internationally renown academic, author, and businessman He has been a director in a fortune 500 company and president of entrepreneurial firms. His managerial research is aimed at both the academic and practitioner communities and he has well over 100 published articles, which serve those communities. He serves as the founding president of Micro and Nano technology education foundation and he is the Director of Technological Entrepreneurship at UNM. He serves UNM as, an associate professor in management of technology professor, and the Black Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of New Mexico. His Plenary presentations during February, March, April, May and June of 2002 include the National Commercialization of Microsystems meeting in Florida, the Ohio American Marketing Association conference at Defiance College and the plenary speaker at the International Association of Product Development Professionals in Connecticut, Session chair at the national Inc. 500 conference, and speaker at Semicon Europa, Sensors San Jose, Babson-Kaufman Entrepreneurial Research Conference and the International Conference on Small Business Research. He will be just returning from the 7th international conference on the commercialization of micro and Nano systems held in Ypsilanti Michigan www.coms2002.org, His research efforts are focused on the management of technology fields of competency versus capability theory, disruptive versus sustaining technologies and continuous versus discontinuous innovation. He applies these and other concepts to develop cutting edge commercialization academic and industrial efforts and has published extensively in R&D management, strategic management of technology, international technology management, technology entrepreneurship, technology management in the service sector, and technological entrepreneurship. He has been a plenary speaker or invited speaker numerous times at the major conferences in academia such as the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT) as well as the SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering). He has also been an invited speaker at many universities and national laboratories including: Chalmers and Jonkoping University in Sweden, University of Twente in the Netherlands, National laboratories in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the University of Missouri Rolla, Louisiana Tech, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and others in the US, IIT Kanpur, IIM Ahemdabad, IIT Delhi, University of Calcutta, National Physics Laboratory and the cabinet minister in India, Bejing University, and Nankai University in the Peoples Republic of China. He holds a number of academic and industrial positions such as - President elect for the MANCEF. MANCEF is the international Micro and Nano technology commercialization education foundation and international professional organization that focuses on the issues in commercializing disruptive technologies specifically Microsystems and Nano technology.
- Member of board of reviewers for the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
- Associate editor for Microsystems Commercialization and Silicon processing for the SPIE Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems.
- Co-chair for the MANCEF / SEMI international technology roadmap for Microsystems.
- Member Board of advisors of R&D magazine's Micro Machine Devices magazine.
- Board Member of the MESA Institute at Sandia National Laboratories
- Chair of the last six (6) Industrial based International conferences on the commercialization of Micro and Nano systems,
- Member of the international research consortium of nascent entrepreneurs.
- Program committee member for numerous academic conference
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