Masters in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

Jason Harry has over 40 years of commercial and academic experience in the medical device field and early-stage venturing. He is currently the Hugh W. Pearson ’58 Professor of the Practice of Technology and Entrepreneurship in the School of Engineering, Brown University. His teaching focus—undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels—is entrepreneurship, innovation management, and intersections between technology and business. He served for 7 years as the Director of Breakthrough Lab, a student venture accelerator in the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University. 

Jason has served as a reviewer for funding proposals to the National Science Foundation “Accelerating Innovation Research—Technology Transfer (AIR-TT),” and to the National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. He authors technology content for the Wall Street Journal’s “Critical Thinking Resources” for university faculty. In addition to his academic work, he is active as an early-stage business development consultant.

In prior commercial positions, he was the founder and CEO of Lucidux, LLC, an early stage company developing advanced visualization technologies for minimally invasive surgery. He was previously founder and CEO of Afferent Corporation, which focused on neurostimulation technologies to treat chronic dysfunction stemming from stroke, aging, and diabetes. He was also VP of Research Engineering at NMT Medical, Inc., Boston, MA, a company in the field of minimally invasive cardiovascular implants.

Jason has deep experience in start-up financing, including the process of winning and managing research funding from NIH SBIR and other programs. He received his PhD from Harvard University, Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with primary research focus in mechanical and biomedical engineering and biophysics.