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Dr. Michael Gerards

Dr. Michael Gerards is an independent consultant in the field of innovation management and business model innovation. Until December 2013 he worked for the pharmaceutical and chemical company Merck KGaA.

As Director of Innovation Management at Merck he can look back on more than 20 years experience in R&D, innovation, strategy and business development.

He has developed the cross-divisional enterprise-wide innovation process “innospire” for cross-fertilization of chemicals and pharma businesses with interdisciplinary and internationally oriented business development teams. His introduction of collaboration platforms, marketplaces, as well as bootcamps and incubator concepts played an important role during that time. Many successful projects and new product developments resulted from his activities. In March 2015, “innospire” was awarded with the Innovation Award of German Industry.

Michael Gerards is also partner and consultant for IT companies specialized in virtual reality tools for industrial applications.

Dr. Michael Gerards

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Chapter: DE Members

Stakeholder Expertise

Pharma – OTC | Startups

Functional Expertise

Development | Market Research | Research

Process Expertise Tools

Business Case | Change Mgmt | Coaching | Innovation | Proj / Program Mgmt | Strategy | Workshops

Market Expertise

Others

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Dr. Michael Gerards
Die Allmendäcker 4
D-64646 Heppenheim
Germany

Phone: +49 151 6710 4849

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