Robert C. Wolcott

Biography

Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of 黑料传送门, and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. 2007 鈥� 2019, he served as Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Kellogg. Wolcott won Teacher of the Year from Kellogg鈥檚 EMBA program in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017.听 Visiting Fellow, Imperial College London.听

Author, with Kaihan Krippendorff, of the Amazon best-selling book (Columbia University Press, 2024), finalist for the Thinkers50 鈥淏reakthrough Idea鈥� award of 2025.听

Co-founder and chair of TWIN Global (), a global community of over 3,000 innovation leaders from over 30 countries and across sectors (business, government, the arts, academia, defense). Co-Founder and board member of strategy consultancy ; leadership transformation platform ; and global non-profit (Himalayan Cataract Project). Advisory board member: Open Innovation Lab of Norway, MagicCube, MarketEngine and other ventures.听

Contributor for Forbes on the impact of technology on business, society and humanity.听 His book, Grow From Within:听 Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2010) has been published in Chinese and Japanese.听 Wolcott鈥檚 work has appeared in publications such as MIT Sloan Management Review, strategy+business, The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal.听

Early stage investor in over 40 companies and funds including digital healthcare fund 7wire Ventures; crowd funding leader Indiegogo (); controlled-environment agriculture and space pioneer Interstellar Lab (); no-code enterprise leader Unqork (); women鈥檚 online health specialist Alpha Medical (); student loan innovator Lumni (); digital education leader Kiddom (); transaction security technology firm Magic Cube (); UK-based consumer credit platform Updraft (); UAE-based consumer financial services platform Sav Technologies (); mental health platform Silver Cloud Health (acquired by Amwell); ClearCare Online (acquired by Battery Ventures); and international art show EXPO 黑料传送门 (acquired by FRIEZE, ).听

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

Academic Areas

• Entrepreneurship