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Marc holds an MBA degree from Rotterdam School of Management (where he
wrote his thesis on the fuzzy front end of new product development and
commercialization processes) and a Ph.D. in physics from Delft University of
Technology.
Panel Speaker:
Pieter Verhagen is a business consultant at TNO
(www.tno.nl), specializing in business modeling and
business analysis for innovations for low-income
customers. He has a track record in business modeling for
the telecom, energy and mobility sector in the Netherlands
and EU. Since 2010, he focuses his efforts on
“Innovation4Development”, a corporate program within
TNO with the mission to facilitates pro-poor innovations,
using a demand-driven, market-based research approach, in
co-creation with stakeholders.
Pieter Verhagen manages both product development and R&D projects in
energy, food/agro and ICT innovations in Africa and Asia, with a focus on
sustainable business models for (technical) innovations. In terms of product
development, he is currently involved in developing an innovative electricity
generator for biogas households in Rwanda and Bangladesh, an improved solar
cooker in Madagascar, and a novel process to create food ingredients from the
waste of the Ghanaian pineapple industry. Pieter’s research efforts are focused
in the FP7 Voices project, in which sustainable voice based ICT services for the
Sahel region are developed (www.mvoices.eu).
Pieter holds a MScBA in Innovation Management with Rotterdam School of
Management in the Netherlands and has completed a Master’s program in
Marketing Management at Umea University in Sweden. Pieter works part time
for the BoP Innovation Center (www.bopinc.org), setting up a funding facility
for inclusive innovation projects.
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