Uday Phadke

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Uday Phadke
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Born	Uday Phadke 1952 (age 71–72) Kampala Uganda
🏳️ Nationality	British
🏫 Education	MA, D Phil
🎓 Alma mater	Cambridge University Sussex University
💼 Occupation
👔 Employer	http://www.cartezia.com/
Known for	Triple Chasm Model
Title	Chief Executive,
Board member of	The Research & Development Society

Uday Phadke is a British entrepreneur, author, businessman and part-time academicwhose career has spanned engineering, digital technologies, strategy consulting, innovation management, and entrepreneurship. His work and publications from the 1990s through the 2020s have focused on the commercialisation of science and technology enabled innovation. Dr Phadke is the originator of the Triple Chasm Model, which describes how innovations are harnessed to produce commercial, social and environmental impact.

Education

Born in Kampala, Uganda, Phadke came to Britain as a teenage refugee. From state school he attended Trinity College, Cambridge graduating in 1976 in Engineering. After two years working for NEI Parsons as a commissioning engineer on new power stations and turbines, he returned to academia as a founding research fellow at the Thermo-Fluids Research Centre, University of Sussex established by an academic-industrial consortium between the Science and Engineering Research Council, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney and MTU. He completed a DPhil in 1982 in the aero-thermodynamics of gas turbine engines.

Career

Consulting

Following a period with Detica, in 1985 Phadke joined PA Technology in Cambridge UK, where he focused on process re-engineering enabled by new developments in IT and Telecommunications, eventually becoming European Director of Electronic Systems.

With a small group of colleagues, Phadke left PA in 1988 and started a new company called Generics, focused on the development of innovative new products for large corporations across a wide range of technical disciplines. As a main board Director, he was involved in growing the company to more than 200 scientists and technologists. Generics eventually became Sagentia.

Business acceleration

Since 1997 Phadke has been the founder-CEO of Cartezia, a business development company based in Cambridge focused on the creation of sustainable long-term value. The company works closely with science and technology-enabled firms, including early-stage, high-growth, and mature established businesses. It also works with a variety of intervention agencies, including incubators, accelerators and technology transfer agencies.

In 2008, he became the founding Chairman of AcceleratorIndia, which focuses on innovation-driven growth in the India-Europe Corridor. Later, in 2020, he became the founding Chief Executive of The Triple Chasm Company, which focuses on the commercial application of the Triple Chasm Approach, especially the Scale-up Challenge that all SMEs face. He is an advisory board member of the CRACKIT innovation platform.

Academic related

Based on his experience in innovation-driven growth, Phadke was appointed Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Cambridge Judge Business School (2010-2016), where he also helped to create and deliver new innovation and entrepreneurship programmes. Since 2013 he has also been an Associate at the Moller Institute Churchill College, Cambridge, working on leadership challenges for innovative companies. In 2018 he was appointed to the advisory board of the UK R&D Society.

Triple-chasm innovation

Much of Phadke's work over the last decade has been focused on understanding how science and technology enabled innovation is commercialised effectively. He led a 5-year research programme when he was based at the Cambridge Judge Business School, which provided data and new insights on how this process works. This work led him to create the Triple Chasm Approach, which now forms the basis for teaching about commercialisation supporting interventions for incubation, acceleration and scale-up. and shaping industrial strategy. The Triple Chasm Approach originated by Phadke, is based on three key components, derived from data arising from the global research programme.

Model of the entrepreneurial phases of business start-up development

Factors affecting the phases of entrepreneurial development of start-ups

The Triple Chasm Model confirms the work of Everett Rogers who demonstrated that the growth of innovation-driven companies can be described by a diffusion equation, but the model critically identifies three discontinuities or chasms where the diffusion parameters change markedly, with the result that the classical ‘S’ curve postulated by Rogers and others presents a view of growth which is too optimistic.

Phadke's accompanying meso-economic treatment of the drivers for change, or Vectors, extends the work of Joseph Schumpeter, defining a total of 12 Vectors: 4 exogenous Vectors, 6 endogenous Vectors, and 2 composite Vectors. For example, the external market space Vector is based on inverting Porter’s work on value chains. The composite vector on Strategic Positioning draws on Johnson’s work on strategic diversity to create a new approach which replaces the grid-based analysis commonly used by management consulting firms and some business schools, for example Blue Ocean Strategy.

Combining the triple chasm model with the 12 meso-economic Vectors allows a more nuanced understanding of how intervention priorities change with the maturity of an innovation. This integrated approach represents an advance to conventional approaches based on looking at sub-sets of the commercialisation challenge, such as a business model canvas and lean methods.

Professional bodies

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce in 2018.
• Board of the UK R&D Society since 2018.
• Chartered Engineer, and a Member of the Institutes of Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Publications

Books

• Phadke, U.P. (1982), Aerodynamic Aspects of the Sealing of Rotor-Stator Systems in Gas Turbines, DPhil Thesis, University of Sussex, September 1982.
• Phadke, U.P. & Vyakarnam, S. (2017), Camels, Tigers & Unicorns: Re-thinking Science & Technology-enabled Innovation, World Scientific Publishing, London
• Phadke, U.P. & Vyakarnam, S. (2018), The Scale-up Manual: Handbook for Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Teams and Firms, World Scientific Publishing, London.

Papers

• Phadke, U.P. and Owen, J.M. Aerodynamic aspects of the sealing of gas turbine rotor-stator systems. Part 1: The behaviour of simple shrouded rotating disc systems in a quiescent environment. Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 9, pp. 98-105, 1988.
• Phadke, U.P. and Owen, J.M. Aerodynamic aspects of the sealing of gas turbine rotor-stator systems. Part 2: The performance of simple seals in a quasi-axisymmetric external flow. Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 9, pp. 106-112, 1988.
• Phadke, U.P. and Owen, J.M. Aerodynamic aspects of the sealing of gas turbine rotor-stator systems. Part 3: The effect of non-axisymmetric external flow on seal performance. Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 9, pp. 113-117, 1988.

External links

• "Triple Chasm Model Blog".
• "Commercialising science and technology enabled Innovation: a systemic new approach".

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