Jiri Scherer studied economics at the Lucerne School of Business, and completed a postgraduate study course in Innovation Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich. He is a certified trainer of De Bono Thinking Systems.
He has several years’ experience in the moderation of innovation workshops and the organisation of creativity seminars. He is a lecturer at several technical colleges and a trainer at BWI Management Management Education at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and also a trainer at various further education institutions in Germany and Austria.
Jiri is the author of the books “Creativity Techniques – Finding, Evaluating and Implementing Ideas” and “Innovation Management”, both of which have been published by the publishing house GABAL, and of several professional articles on the topic creative thinking. He has been awarded the “New Entrepreneurs in Technology and Science Award” of the Gebert Rüf Foundation.