"Making Innovation Work"

Robert Shelton is a co-author of the book, Making Innovation Work (2006). This book challenges the prevalent misconceptions about innovation and lays out the tools and processes necessary for an organization to harness and execute innovation. Mr. Shelton has spent his entire professional life working on innovation. Presently Mr. Shelton is a Director and a leader of the innovation practice at PRTM Management Consultants. With over thirty years experience Mr. Shelton has assisted leading government organizations and companies around the world. He specializes in developing and integrating innovative business models and new technologies to create valuable new business opportunities for his clients. Recently, he co-edited The Creative Enterprise (Praeger, 2007), a three-volume compilation that integrates insights from the fields of management, economics, technology, psychology, and sociology to cover the spectrum across individual and organizational innovation.

Mr. Shelton has been a speaker on innovation in Asia, the US, and Europe. Mr. Shelton has been a keynote speaker on innovation and business strategy to a range of senior executive audiences at leading corporations around the world and at the House of Commons, Stanford University Executive Program, University of California Executive Program (Berkeley), European Communities, Fudan University (Shanghai), Innovation and Technology Research Institute (Taipei), The Conference Board (New York), FT Innovation Forum (London), ENG Innovation Conference (Amsterdam), and Front End of Innovation Conference (Vienna).

Mr. Shelton’s work has received media attention from The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN Financial News, and Tech Nation (National Public Radio). Mr. Shelton is the co-founder and a board member of a leading technology incubator in Silicon Valley recognized for its unique contributions by the White House, the California’s Governors Office, and selected as the best US business incubator in 2008.