Dr Mary Mathew is Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She is the first woman full Professor at the Department of Management Studies since 1948. Prof Mathew's doctoral work (from the Indian Institute of Science, 1996) was in the area socio-technical systems and technology management where she studied the impacts of  CNC technology in manufacturing. She developed a Path Analytical Model to compare old and new technology impacts in various organizational sub systems.  From technology impacts she moved her interests to technology development and R&D.  She  focused on the Information and Communications Technologies and its R&D landscape in India. She studied the nature of software to understand intellectual property in it together with a multi-disciplinary group of colleagues from IISc. She also studied the open source movement and the nature of product development in areas of network management.  She drew insights from the open source movement to understand product development in ICT. Parallely she also focused on  "patents" as an important dependent variable of productive R&D. Her broad research area is on patent commercialization, new product development strategy and making productive R&D cultures happen. Her recent publications are  in the Technovation,  International Journal of Information Technology and Management, International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, Journal of Innovation Management, Journal of Intellectual Property Rights,  Team Performance Management and Journal of High Technology Management Research. Her current research team consists of 9 doctoral students working in the above mentioned areas. She has worked on projects funded by the European Commission, Flanders Society, Ministry of S&T, Ministry of Communications and IT and other industry players. Her current focus on Medical Device innovations in India touches various facets of the development of Medical Devices including the research and prototyping stages, clinical trials, classification and regulations, manufacturing and quality standards, retail strategies and commercialization via start ups in the case of Medical Devices.  She has been landscaping the clinical trial practice for Medical Devices in India and is evolving the road map for a few medical devices developed at multiple departments of the Indian Institute of Science. She also helps with the start-up and incubation activities of IISc and coordinates the IISc - IIMB relationship. She holds 3 other positions at IISc.  Additionally, she is also a Resource Executive of the Society of Innovation Development the university industry office of IISc where she negotiates with companies for IISc's intellectual property.  She is also a Faculty of the Intellectual Property Cell and the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing at IISc.  She can be contacted at Dept of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012