Dr. ir. F.E.H.M. Smulders (Frido)

Director of the Master in Strategic Product Design
Product Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship

Biography

• Since 2010
  Associate Professor Management & Organization:
  Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology
• 2000-2007
  Secretary to the chairman of Management Team:
  Co-responsible for finance, human resources, strategy, etc.
  Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology.
• 1993-2010
  Assistant Professor Management & Organization:
  Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology
• 1993-2001
  Managing Director & Senior Consultant
  Mosaic, Innovation Management Consultants
• 1989-1993
  Consultant Innovation & Technology Management
  Innovation Consulting Group TNO & Technology Consulting Group TNO, on 50/50 basis.
• 1988
  Project leader R&D
  ALCOA Technical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  Feasibility study for new (production) technology for a new generation of aircraft materials: GLARE (Glass Reinforced Aluminum Laminate) and ARALL (Aramid Reinforced Aluminum Laminate). This new technology was based on my own invention (see list of publications).
• 1982-1987
  Free-Lance Scientific Journalist, various technological subjects (see publications)
• 1980-1981
  Concept engineer, Single Buoy Moorings Inc. (part of SBM-Offshore) Monaco, France. Offshore loading systems for crude oil tankers.
• 1976-1980

Entrepreneurial activity:

• Founder and managing director of Homework Control Company, The Hague.
• 1976
  Internship
  IHC Werf Gusto Schiedam, The Netherlands. Ship Yard. Developing, engineering and producing offshore vessels (Drilling rigs, drill ships, Pile laying vessels, dredging vessels, etc.)

Education

• 2006
  PhD in Innovation Technology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
  Title: Get Synchronized! Bridging the gap between Design and Volume Production
  On describing the socio-interactive process between actors in Design and in Manufacturing.
• 1988
  Master of Science (ir.) Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology
• 1980
  BSc, Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology

Specialisation / field of research

Socio-interactive processes related to Product Innovation:

• Trans-disciplinary collaborative design
• Front End of Discontinuous Innovation
• Bio-inspired Industrial Design and Engineering
• Organizational interface transitions in Open Innovation

Lectures and/or coaches students on:

• Project Leadership and Project Followership
• Corporate New Product Development
• Technology based Entrepreneurship
• Collaborative Business Design
• Creative Facilitation
• Master Graduation projects on Strategic (Product) Innovation Management

Publications

Click here for an overview of my publications.