Osama Sam Al-Kwifi

Osama AL-KWIFI is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Marketing. He received his PhD in Management of Technology from the University of Waterloo and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Alberta. Before returning to university to complete his PhD, he worked at the University of Toronto developing medical applications, and at several medical companies designing and evaluating new products for global markets. He was a visiting scholar at Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University.

Education

• Ph.D. 2009 Management of Technology - University of Waterloo, Canada
• Ph.D. 2008 Certificate in University Teaching - The Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo
• M.Sc. 2000 Biomedical Engineering - University of Alberta, Canada
• B.Sc. 1994 Biomedical Engineering - University of Damascus, Syria

Research

• Entrepreneurship
• Technology Transfer
• Organizational Learning
• Innovation
• Neuromarketing
• Marketing Technology
• High Technology Brand Switching

Teaching

• Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
• Business Planning for Entrepreneurs
• Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
• Strategic Management
• Management of Technology
• Strategies for New Technology-based Ventures
• Human Resource Management
• Legal Environment of Business
• Principles of Management

Honors, Awards and Grants

• 2015 Best Paper Award, Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators (ACME)

• 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award, Academy For Global Business Advancement

• 2014 Outstanding Paper Award, Journal of Technology Management in China

• 2010 Canadian Federal Funding (NSERC- PDF), Canadian Government

• 2009 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), Ontario Provincial Government

• 2005 Canadian Federal Scholarship (NSERC- Ph.D.), Canadian Government

• 2005 University of Waterloo President's Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo

• 2003 Imaging Network Ontario Honorable Award, Ontario Medical Imaging Network

• 1999 Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award, University of Alberta

• 1998 University of Alberta Scholarship, University of Alberta

• 1995 First Class Graduation, Syrian Ministry of Higher Education

• 1994 Class Honor - Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Damascus