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Top Innovation Scholars, Dr. Robert G. Cooper, Dr. Scott J. Edgett and Eight Leading Companies will Present at the 3rd Annual Stage-Gate^® Innovation Summit

ANCASTER, ONTARIO (July 15, 2008) – The Product Development Institute is pleased to announce that its co-founders, Dr. Robert G. Cooper and Dr. Scott J. Edgett will be delivering keynote presentations at the 3rd Annual Stage-Gate Innovation Summit.  The event will be held in Clearwater, FL on February 24 and 25, 2009.  An exciting line up of 8 leading innovators has been announced. Executives from Church & Dwight, Corning, Fresenius, ICOM, ITT Industries, Johnson & Johnson, McKesson Provider Technologies and P&G, will be presenting at the event.

The Summit is devoted to discussing what executives can do to help steer their companies to achieve successful, profitable product innovation that can make a real impact on their businesses.  The annual event is “a very impressive exchange and collaboration of ideas, solutions and experiences with some of our industry’s best and brightest business executives and innovators” remarked Dr. Scott J. Edgett.  It is a ‘who’s who’ in the world of innovation.  Although predominately attended by delegates headquartered in the United States, the event attracts executives from around the world including: Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Mexico and Norway. 

To register for this event visit www.prod-dev.com or call +1-905-304-8798.

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Executive Vice President, Global Growth
Stage-Gate International
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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.

With over sixty years of research and professional advisory experience combined, co-founders Dr. Robert G. Cooper and Dr. Scott J. Edgett are globally recognized as leaders in the area of new product development and new product portfolio management. They have been published more than 200 times and have written eleven books; creating a wide body of research knowledge. Dr. Cooper and Dr. Edgett have worked with 1,000+ companies including many of the Global 1000. They have compiled the largest body of knowledge on product innovation best-practices in the world.