Robert Kneller

Robert Kneller has been studying venture companies, innovation and university-industry cooperation in Japan for nine years, beginning in 1997 as an Abe Fellow and since 1998 as Professor in the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST). RCAST is an interdisciplinary science and engineering research center and Prof. Kneller is in the Department of Intellectual Property. Prior to coming to Japan, Dr. Kneller worked in the U.S. National Institutes of Health ...See more

Robert Kneller has been studying venture companies, innovation and university-industry cooperation in Japan for nine years, beginning in 1997 as an Abe Fellow and since 1998 as Professor in the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST). RCAST is an interdisciplinary science and engineering research center and Prof. Kneller is in the Department of Intellectual Property. Prior to coming to Japan, Dr. Kneller worked in the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), first in cancer epidemiology, then science policy, and then technology transfer to commercialize NIH discoveries. He has also worked in China and speaks Japanese, Chinese, French and Russian in addition to English. Dr. Kneller received a B.A. in physics from Swarthmore College, a J.D. in law from Harvard Law School, an M.D. in medicine from Mayo Medical School, and a Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. See less