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Rejean Landry

University of Laval

Dr. Réjean Landry is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1999. He is the holder of a Chair on Knowledge Transfer and Innovation funded by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. Dr Landry is professor at the Department of Management of the Faculty of Business at Laval University in Quebec City where he teaches on knowledge transfer. He has published extensively on public policies, innovation and knowledge transfer. His most recent works on knowledge transfer and innovation have been published in Public Administration Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Research Policy, Technovation and Science Communication. His research team edits a weekly electronic newsletter: E.Watch on Innovation in Health Services, which is disseminated to 2400 people, including about 400 researchers and 2000 managers and professionals in health services in Canada and abroad. Réjean Landry is also the head the Réseau du Réseau Innovation Network (RIN) which brings together more than 650 members, comprising 50 university researchers and students, and 600 partners from public, private and not for profit organizations. The RIN edits a weekly electronic newsletter: INNOV. His ongoing research projects concern knowledge transfer and innovation. Réjean Landry has worked as consultant on innovation for various national and international organizations. He has also been involved as consultant in regional cluster development initiatives of eight different regions of Québec.