BE, Polytechnique Montreal
MA and PhD, University of Oxford
Summary
A graduate in electrical engineering from Polytechnique Montreal and a graduate in economics from the University of Oxford (master’s and doctorate), Catherine Beaudry is currently a full professor at the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal and holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Management and Economics of Innovation at Polytechnique Montréal, and leads the Partnership for the Organization of Innovation and New Technologies (4POINT0).
She is the recipient of the Prix Acfas Jacques-Rousseau 2022, the CPSC Public Policy Trailblazer Award in 2023 and the Prix d’excellence en recherche et innovation 2024 from Polytechnique Montréal.
Professor Beaudry specialises in the economics of innovation and its impact on business performance, as well as in the evaluation of research and the science and technology system. Her main research interests are collaboration and support mechanisms for public and private organisations involved in knowledge and innovation ecosystems. In particular, her research focuses on the interaction between science and technology networks and industrial clusters, and how they influence the performance and survival of innovative organizations. 4POINT0 aims to develop new innovation indicators (derived from web mining) adapted to these ecosystems, so as to provide decision-makers with near-real time decision-making tools.