Professor Juan Roure

Juan Roure is Professor at IESE Business School and Member of its International Advisory Board. He has been Visiting Professor at INSEAD since 1996 and he was Visiting Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1989. In 1982-83 he spent a year at Harvard Business School as visiting scholar with the VIS Program.
Professor Roure holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in the field of innovation and technological based start-ups. (Title of the dissertation «Prefunding Factors of Success of High-Tech Based Start-Ups”).

He teaches entrepreneurship, growth strategy, innovation and negotiation and has authored several publications in these fields. He serves on the Board/Advisory Board of several companies and he is a consultant to owners of mid-size companies on growth strategies and M&A transactions. He has also been involved in advising top management of large organizations such as Telefónica, Banco Santander Central Hispano, Deutch Bank and REPSOL-YPF. He is member of the European Advisory Board of The Carlyle Group.

In 1988, he was involved in the creation of the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research (EFER) that later on became the starting point for the foundation of the present Association of High Growth Entrepreneurs Growth Plus. He is at present Academic Adviser and Board Member of Growth Plus.

In addition he has been involved in promoting the development of new technological ventures through the European Venture Academy, IST Investment Forum, European Tech Venturing Program, all projects supported by the European Commission. He was selected in 2000 among the Annual Time Digital Europe 25: The most influential people on the European Technology scene.

Juan Roure
Professor
IESE Business School
University of Navarra
Avda. Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Tel +34 93 253 4200. Fax +34 93 253 4343
http://www.iese.edu
e-mail: roure@iese.edu