Date & Time: 23 February, 10:00 – 11:30
Location: University of Latvia, House of Science, Room 105
Language: English
By Prof. Vincent Yip (Stanford/Berkeley)
Register: https://luma.com/eq49t8yh
Lecture: “Disruptive Innovations”
Prof. Yip has many years of experience in high-tech management, innovation, and international relations. He has lived and worked in Silicon Valley for the past 25 years, getting first-hand understanding of some of the world's foremost Disruptive Innovations and companies. The professor has taught several courses at both Stanford and Berkeley universities and once founded a green technology start-up himself.
Vincent F. Yip PhD MBA – Professor, educator, technology consultant, Silicon Valley
Born in Singapore, Dr. Yip received his PhD (Materials Science) from U. of Southern California and then an MBA (International Business). His work career began in materials R&D, followed by a 10-year stint with the Singapore Government in economic development, technology management, his top position being Executive Director and Administrator of the Singapore Science Park between 1982 and 1989. In 1989 he was conferred the French decoration of “Ordre des Palmes Academiques” for significant contribution to Singapore-French relationship in culture and technology. He was assigned to Singapore’s Embassy in Brussels as Singapore’s Deputy Ambassador to the EU and the Vatican in 1989-1991.
Dr. Yip became Visiting Professor at Northwestern University in 1991-94 and co-taught courses in technology management and cross-cultural management at Kellogg Graduate School of Management's top-rated MBA and EMBA programs. While living in China between 1994-2001, he worked as General Manager of an environmental technology startup ECOFEN. He qualified as a PMP (Project Management Professional) in 1978 and taught project management to some 4,000 engineers and managers of multinational corporations as well as Chinese companies. He also guest lectured at Tsinghua University’s EMBA course in 1999-2000, and at Beijing U’s EMBA program in 2016.
He returned to the Bay Area in 2001 and taught “Product Management” at U of San Francisco in 2003-04. Since 2008 Dr. Yip teaches three courses at Stanford Continuing Studies program: “Project Management”, “Doing Business in China”, “Technology Entrepreneurship”. Between 2010 and 2020, he also served and taught as Adjunct Lecturer at UC Berkeley Extension and Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. He joined the International Advisor Panel of Cambridge Learning Gateway in Jan 2021.
He has written three books on China, including a widely acclaimed 379-page book “Ethnic Groups of China”, and published numerous articles in technical as well as business journals. He is a sought-after public speaker, university lecturer and Technology consultant, and operates from his base in Palo Alto and the Silicon Valley, traveling and lecturing/consulting in the US, Europe, China and Singapore.
