He is also a Chartered Accountant and a former partner in one of Canada’s largest public accounting firms. Fred teaches primarily in the areas of accounting, management of technological innovation and managing entrepreneurial operations at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Fred’s focuses on how new technologies arising from university research are put into commercial use. Fred’s interests in the strategic management of innovation focus on the ‘innovation gap’ between the generation of ideas and their being put into use in the form of new products or services. These new products and services drive economic growth and provide solutions to health, environment and other social issues.