Steven Fraser is an independent consultant on innovation and technology transfer. From 2007 to 2013, Steven was the Director of the Cisco Research Center. His achievements included: increasing the visibility and leverage of Cisco-university research collaborations, increasing the number of PhD/Post-Doc recruits, and accelerating technology transfer through the establishment of the Cisco Research Commons and the CTech Forum – a proprietary conference for Cisco Staff. Prior to joining Cisco, Steven was a Senior Staff member of Qualcomm’s Learning Center in San Diego, leading software learning programs and creating the corporation’s internal technical conference (the QTech Forum). Late in the last century, Steven held a variety of technology strategy roles at BNR/ Nortel including: Senior Manager (Disruptive Technology and Global External Research) and Advisor (Design Process Engineering). In 1994 he spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) collaborating with the “Application of Soft¬ware Models” project on the development of team-based domain analysis software reuse) techniques. Steven is a Senior Member of the ACM and the IEEE.