Chris Farrell Ph.D. 

Is a practitioner and an innovation professional with twenty-five years industrial experience - in developing, and managing the development of new products and their manufacturing technologies. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University (Christ's College) in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Bristol University in 1977. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Product Development and Management Association and on the Industry Relations Advisory Board of Northwestern University. He has made many technical publications and holds many patents. He founded Technology Matters in 1999, developing Business Innovation Analysis there since 2004. The creative spirit of this endeavor is told in his Royal Economic Society interview here

The TechMatt™ Business Innovation Analysis toolbox has know-how with immediate practical importance in Commerce, and fundamentals already needed by Academia and Government. So that others can use and build from its leading edge, its formulae, methods, scholarship and its DINTEC™ database may be granted to the public domain by reimbursement of the private research investment needed to produce it.