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DESCRIPTION:The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM
 )\, in collaboration with the ºÚÁÏÍø Department of Chemistry\, is pleased 
 to invite you to:\nSustainable Innovation: The Most Frustrating and Reward
 ing Experience You Will Hopefully Ever HaveA lecture by Lynn LegerDirector
 \, ALCERECO\nDate: Friday\, September 13\, 2013Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmLoca
 tion: Bronfman Building\, Room 4231001 Sherbrooke St. West\nThere is littl
 e disagreement that sustainable innovation is the right approach for compa
 nies\, for researchers\, and for society. The real challenge lies in how t
 o make sustainable innovation happen at a faster pace. For sustainable inn
 ovation to be successful\, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs need an interdi
 sciplinary range of skills and capabilities ranging from technical & scien
 tific knowledge to life cycle analysis to financial savvy. It will always 
 require persistence\, creativity\, and openness to learning new things. An
 d it is completely worth it. Successful sustainable innovations impact liv
 es. There are ways to understand the value of opportunities and to increas
 e the likelihood of success. This lecture focuses on perceptions about sus
 tainable innovation\, success stories\, and some tools and approaches to i
 ncrease your chances of success in sustainable innovation.\nAfter completi
 ng a degree in Chemistry and an MBA\, Lynn joined DuPont’s Automotive Coat
 ings business where she held a variety of business\, marketing and technic
 al positions. She then changed market focus and led new initiatives in Foo
 d Safety for DuPont including responsibility for leading major R&D initiat
 ives in breakthrough disinfection technology. Lynn joined GreenCentre Cana
 da in 2010 as a Director of Commercial Development and worked with univers
 ities across Canada to commercialize greener technologies. Lynn is a named
  inventor on 13 patent applications in technologies representing each of t
 he different businesses with which she has been associated. She is a frequ
 ent speaker on innovation and green chemistry and chaired a session on com
 mercialization of Green Chemistry at the ACS-GCI’s 2013 meeting. Lynn is c
 urrently starting a new business\, ALCERECO\, which will develop and comme
 rcialize new Advanced Materials in a number of markets.\nThis event is fre
 e of charge and open to the ºÚÁÏÍø community and the general public.\nPlea
 se RSVP to ariane.guay-jadah [at] mcgill.ca.
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Innovation: The Most Frustrating and Rewarding Experien
 ce You Will Hopefully Ever Have
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