Innovation Marketplace at Babson

The Blank Center is excited for its first event of the year: Innovation Marketplace with award-winning academic, venture financier, and serial entrepreneur, Adam J. Bock, MBA, PhD!

Adam will lead students through his "Innovation Marketplace" to explore why some innovations succeed and others fail. He will also take Q&A about co-founding 5 biotech companies and managing multiple angel investing networks. Dr. Bock's companies have raised more than $70 million in venture capital and generated more than $200 million of exit value.

About Adam Bock
Adam J. Bock, MBA, PhD, is an award-winning academic, venture financier, and serial entrepreneur.

As an academic, he studies entrepreneurship, business models, and technology venturing. Adam is the co-author (with Gerry George) of The Business Model Book (Pearson 2018), Models of Opportunity (Cambridge 2012), and Inventing Entrepreneurs (Pearson Prentice Hall 2009). He has published peer-reviewed research on innovation and entrepreneurship in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Venture Capital: An International Journal of Finance, and other journals.

Adam has co-founded four life science companies spun out of university research. Nerites Corporation commercialized a bio-inspired synthetic medical adhesive developed at Northwestern. Nerites was acquired by Kensey-Nash (Royal DSM) for $20 million in 2011. Stratatech Corporation commercialized an immortalized human keratinocyte cell line developed at Wisconsin. Stratatech was acquired by Mallinckrodt in 2016 for $187 million. Virtual Incision Corporation is commercializing miniaturized surgical robots developed at the University of Nebraska. His most recent venture, Cellular Logistics, was spun out of the University of Wisconsin in 2016. Adam managed multiple angel investing networks, facilitating more than $10 million into early stage technology firms. He mentors technology and social entrepreneurs around the world.

He has taught entrepreneurship at institutions including UW-Madison, the University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, and Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology. He provides executive education in strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation through the Center for Professional & Executive Development at the Fluno Center. He developed a series of online entrepreneurship courses with Epigeum, LTD which was utilized at more than a dozen UK universities. Adam received the 2018 National 3E Award from the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) for the best experiential entrepreneurial classroom activity. He was named the 2016 “Most Valuable Professor” by the Edgewood College Athletic Department.

Adam is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He was selected as a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy in 2012. Adam served on the World Entrepreneurship Forum (Lyon, France) from 2011-2013. He was Deputy Director of the $9M EPSRC EPSRC and MRC Center for Doctoral Training in Optical Medical Imaging at the University of Edinburgh, an entrepreneurship training program linking the School of Business, College of Medicine, and School of Chemistry.

He holds Bachelors degrees in Economics and Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University, an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Imperial College London.