Patrick Corsi
Marketing

Patrick Corsi manages KINNSYS in Brussels - the Enterprise Innovation Management consultancy aiming at building profitable and sustainable innovations. He co-authored books on marketing and innovation. Within the European Commission, he originated link-up mechanisms between start-up projects and venture and investment firms in 1995, later to be known as 'European Investment Forums'.

From his early settling in Silicon Valley as an IBMer in 1979, Patrick always served in international environments within large and small industries:

- developed advanced office equipment, then communication devices at IBM France;
- managed COGNITECH's Technology Transfer Dept., the Paris based AI business leader through the mid-80's;
- directed the Advanced Studies Dept. of THOMSON-CSF software subsidiary SYSECA in St-Cloud in the late 80's;
- managed European R&D teams within advanced international industrial projects;
- Monitored the European AI R&D projects portfolio as a Senior Project officer within the European Commission through the 90's;
- has often been appointed as an external expert to the EU since 1988.

A frequent speaker and writer with wide experience in evaluating proposals, monitoring and assessing projects in most economic sectors, Patrick lectured at six European Universities since 1977 and is currently an Associate Professor at ISTIA Innovation, Univ. of Angers.

Trained by Belgium's leading SOLVAY SME Business & Entrepreneurship School in 2002-03, Patrick has previously obtained a Ph.D. from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble en Génie Informatique in 1979, had graduated as an Engineer from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées of Grenoble and obtained a Maîtrise de Mathématiques et Applications Fondamentales from Univ. of Marseilles.