Robert C. Wolcott | Professor of Innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. 2007 –2019, he served as Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Kellogg.

Wolcott won Teacher of the Year from Kellogg’s EMBA program in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. Visiting Fellow, Imperial College Business School, London. Co-founder and chair of TWIN Global (www.twinglobal.org), a global community of over 3,000 innovation leaders from over 30 countries and across sectors (business, government, the arts, academia, defense).

Board member of Clareo, a strategy consultancy focused on the global energy transition, resources, mining, food and agriculture industries; human transformation platform Abroad.io; and global non-profit HCP Cure Blindness (Himalayan Cataract Project). Advisory board member: Open Innovation Lab of Norway, MagicCube, StartupWind and other ventures. Contributor for Forbes on the impact of technology on business, society and humanity. His book, Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2010) has been published in Chinese and Japanese.

Wolcott’s work has appeared in publications such as MIT Sloan Management Review, strategy+business, The Harvard Business Review (online), The Wall Street Journal. Early stage investor in nearly 30 companies and funds including digital healthcare fund 7wire Ventures; crowd funding leader Indiegogo (www.indiegogo.com); controlled-environment agriculture pioneer Interstellar Lab (www.interstellarlab.com); metaverse environment platform Nowhere (www.nowhere.io); no-code enterprise leader Unqork (www.unqork.com); women’s online health specialist Alpha Medical (www.helloalpha.com); student loan innovator Lumni (www.lumni.net); digital education leader Kiddom (www.kiddom.co); transaction security technology firm Magic Cube (www.magiccube.co); UK-based consumer credit platform Updraft (www.updraft.com); mental health platform Silver Cloud Health (acquired by Amwell); ClearCare Online (acquired by Battery Ventures); and international art show EXPO Chicago (acquired by FRIEZE, www.expochicago.com).

BA, European and Chinese History; and an MS and Ph.D., Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University.