Rodrigo Franco Gonçalves

bachelor's in Phisics from Universidade de São Paulo (1999), master's in Production Engineering from Universidade Paulista (2004) and PhD in Production Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo (2010). He has experience in the area of #8203;#8203;Production Engineering, system design and development, technological innovation projects. He was a FAPESP Fellow in 2006 and a Rhae Fellow from CNPq in 2012, in technological innovation projects. In 2007 coordinated and developed innovation project PIPE-FAPESP. It has one patent granted and 3 patents filed. He graduated 12 doctors and 13 masters.He works in the following areas: production management, economic and financial engineering, information technology, business analysis, systems engineering and interactive media, innovation and entrepreneurship. He is currently a full professor at the Postgraduate Program in Production Engineering at UNIP, a postgraduate program professor at Production Engineering at Poli-USP and a lato sensu postgraduate professor at USP / Fundação Vanzolini.Through the Vanzolini Foundation, since 2013, it has been conducting staff training and consulting services for technology transfer and process analysis in Business Analysis, applied to innovation and process improvement and information technology solutions, for companies such as Ford Motors, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Rede Globo, Honda of Brazil and Santo Antonio Energia.He currently develops and guides research in Industry 4.0, smart cities, Internet Services, Big Data Analytics and Blockchain, with an emphasis on applications for innovative business models and startUps. He is an investor and mentor of technology and business model of a StartUp, in the MSR.eco project - Sustainable Waste Management, Circular Economy. Also coordinator of the research and development projects of this business model. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)