Jay E. Paap

Jay E. Paap, PhD, is president of Paap Associates, a Fellow of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), and a PDMA Certified New Product Development Professional. For over 4 decades, he has helped organizations leverage technology to promote their growth and strategy objectives by linking technical and product developments to current and future customer needs. He has helped design, launch, and support initiatives dealing with product and technology planning, competitive intelligence, R&D organization, technology transfer, corporate venturing, strategic alliances, technological innovation, and new product development.

Dr. Paap’s clients include 3M, Abbott, Apple, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Baxter, Boeing, British Telecom, Dow Corning, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Ford, Gillette, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, Kimberly-Clark, Kobe Steel, Kraft, Lockheed-Martin, Mars, Motorola, National Research Council (Canada), Novell, Procter & Gamble, Sandia National Laboratories, SC Johnson, Shell, Steelcase, Unilever, and Xerox. 

He has participated in programs sponsored by MIT, Business Week, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI), Cal Berkeley, the Nomura Research Institute (NRI), Nihon University, SCIP, and the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA).

Dr. Paap served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management, Competitive Intelligence Review, and Technology Management. He co-authored "Anticipating Disruptive Innovation," which won the IRI Maurice Holland Award as best article published in Research Technology Management. Dr. Paap teaches the Caltech Industrial Relations Center courses, Technology Strategy for R&D and Product Development, A Customer Focused Framework for Managing Technology Investments Through Technology Roadmaps and Competitive Technical Intelligence.

He received his PhD from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and has held faculty positions at the Sloan School and Indiana University.

Listen to Dr. Paap's webinars:  Adapting Stage Gate^® to be Innovation Friendly, May 2009, and Using Technology Roadmaps to Stimulate Innovation, April 2008.