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World Renown Innovation Expert, Dr. Robert G. Cooper, Visits Southeast Asia and Australia to lead Product Innovation Training Events

ANCASTER, ONTARIO, CANADA – May 2, 2008 - Stage-Gate International, a Member Company of the Product Development Institute, today announced the successful completion of Dr. Robert Cooper’s visit to Southeast Asia and Australia during the month of April 2008.

Two sold out product innovation events, led by Dr. Cooper, were held in Australia. The first in Melbourne on April 3-4, 2008 entitled “Winning at Product Development: Best Practices for Maximum Productivity in New Product Innovation” and the second in Sydney on April 7-8, 2008 entitled “Product Innovation: Generating Big Ideas, Picking the Winners”.

A third sold out event was held in Singapore on April 10-11, 2008 where Dr. Cooper presented the topic “Winning at Product Innovation: Creating and Launching Superior New Products”, highlighting how the Stage-Gate^® product innovation process can help companies achieve growth that is both profitable and sustainable.

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Executive Vice President, Global Growth
Stage-Gate International
+1-905-304-8798
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Product Development Institute is dedicated to helping companies improve their approach to new product development and portfolio management. The Institute has conducted some of the world's most comprehensive research and best practices in new product development - research that has led to some of the most important discoveries in product innovation such as: the widely used Stage-Gate^® system; the concept of New Product Portfolio Management; and the Innovation Diamond™ Framework.

Dr. Robert G. Cooper
Dr. Robert G. Cooper is one of the most influential innovation thought leaders in the business world today. He pioneered the original research that led to his many groundbreaking discoveries including the Stage-Gate Idea-to-Launch Process. Now implemented by almost 80% of North American companies, it is considered to be one of the most important discoveries in the field of innovation management. He has spent more than 30 years studying the practices and pitfalls of 3,000+ new product projects in hundreds of companies and has assembled the world’s most comprehensive research on the topic. His presentations and practical consulting advice have been widely applauded by corporate and business event audiences throughout the world making him one of the most sought-after speakers.

A prolific author, he has published more than 100 academic articles and eleven books, including the best selling Winning at New Products, 3rd Edition. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Crawford Fellow from the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) and the Maurice Holland Award from the Industrial Research Institute (IRI). Dr. Cooper is a Professor Emeritus of Marketing and Technology Management at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) at Penn State University in Pennsylvania, USA.

Dr. Cooper can be reached at .