Roman Gr. Maev
"Say no to most,
choose only one, and
fully concentrate on that."
There's a good chance that you may be using some
form of technology that Roman had a hand on.
From 1990 to 1995, this Russian-born nuclear physi-
cist was one of the leaders of the Russian govern-
mental Program in Technology Transfer. during that
period, his team successfully transferred, to the
west, technologies with an average value of $20 to
$250 million.
In the mid-1990s, Roman moved to Canada through
an intergovernmental exchange program and
eventually gained his Canadian citizenship. He later
became the founding director of the Institute for di-
agnostic Imaging Research in windsor; Ont. Roman
is also the University of windsor's distinguished
Professor of the department of Physics and one
of Canada's pre-eminent solid state physicists and
educators.
dIReCTOR-geNeRAl
THe INSTITUTe FOR dIAgNOSTIC IMAgINg ReSeARCH
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wHat is tHe best adViCe
you ReCeiVed?
The best advice I received was
when I began to work with big
industry in Canada in 1995. One
highly experienced and respect-
ed executive said that if I want
to be successful in an inter-disci-
plinary area with many possible
directions and solutions, I need
to carefully revise each of them
and to say no to most, choosing
only one and fully concentrate
on that.
