Roger Miller is Professor of Innovation and Project Management at École Polytechnique in Montréal, Canada (retired) and Founding Partner of SECOR, a strategy consulting firm with offices in Montréal, Toronto, New York and Paris. Roger is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. His work has focused on (1) strategy and industry dynamics (2) public policies in science and technology and (3) project management. He was the director of the IMEC (International program in the Management of Engineering and Construction) sponsored by 10 large international project developers. IMECs results were published by MIT Press as The Strategic Management of large Engineering Projects: shaping Risks, Institutions and Governance.

Roger Miller holds a doctorate in economics from Louvain University (Belgium), a M.Eng. from Stanford,  and an MBA from Columbia University. He has been a fellow at the Centre for International Affairs of Harvard University and in MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program.  He taught management at INSEAD (France), at the Sloan School of Management (MIT, USA) and at the Université d’Aix-Marseille(France).

He is presently the director of MINE Programme the purpose of which is to understand the management of innovation in the context of the new economy. The data for this research consist of 200 case studies and worldwide survey of 1000 Chief Technology Officers.  The initial results of the MINE study were published under the title of Innovation Games : a New Approach to the competitive Challenge  in the Spring 2008 issue  of the Long Range Planning Journal(LRP)

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS

"To innovate, learn the architecture" Research Technology Management May-June 2008 . Theorizing about innovation has often fallen for universal and reductionist claims. In this article, the emphasis is on instead the rich variety of innovation patterns in the real world.

"Games of Innovation" Special issue of International Journal of INNOVATION MANAGEMENT.2007 Eight articles published by members of the MINE Program. The Managing Innovation in the New Economy (MINE) research program was established with a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and with the collaboration of the Industrial Research Institute, the Science Policy Research Unit in the U.K., and several firms.

“Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: shaping risks, governance and institutions” with Don Lessard (MIT Press, 2001, 237 p.). This book contains the essential findings of an international program that I conceived, built and carried out with 20 industrial sponsors from Canada and abroad, and a team of 10 scholars from MIT (USA), the University Sussex, England), the London Business School, Paris-Dauphine University and others. The research was focussed on the causes of success and failure in 60 large engineering projects (LEPs) around the world, ranging in size from 1 to 6 billion US$. The output is the first comprehensive publication of this kind in the world to focus on front-end strategic planning, instead of traditional project management. The 60 LEPs investigated were in sectors such as energy, transport, petroleum and software. The major factors increasing the probability of success were: (i) the anchoring role of institutions, (ii) the sponsors’ capabilities, (iii) risk analysis, (v) strategic systems, and (v) governability design. This book has been much appreciated by specialists of various disciplines - lawyers, bankers and engineers alike.

“Internationalization of R&D and Engineering Activities in the World Automobile Industry” published in Research Policy in 1994 .This research focussed on plant locations and R&D&E activities . Presentations in Executive Forums were held in Canada, U.S. and Europe.

“Growing the Next Silicon Valley” (Lexington Press, 1988, 158 p.). In the mid-80s I carried out original research on clusters , involving simultaneously economic and technological development in metropolitan agglomerations. I built a strong case for regional economic development based on technologicals.

R- (2008), Clients as drivers of Innovation, in a book edited by Peter Brandon, Palgrave McMillan, London.

R - Miller, R.E. and Lessard, D. (2007). “Evolving strategy and risks in large engineering projects”, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Working paper.

R - (2008), “Evolving strategy and risks in large engineering projects”, in a book edited by Bent Flyvberg, Published by Edward Elgar, London.

Roger Miller and Brian Hobbs (2005), Governance regimes for Large Engineering Projects dans McClelland Project Management Instititue.

Miller, R.E. and Floricel, S. (2005) Managing risk in large projects in Manseau and Howell Engineering and Construction, Ashgate Publishing.

R.E. Miller (2005), La gestion des organisations. Montreal: McGraw-Hill, 744 p.