Prof Solomon Darwin

Prof Solomon Darwin is an American Professor of Business and Director of Open Innovation at the University of California, Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus. He previously served for over two decades as Executive Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known as the visionary leader of the Smart Village Movement and for developing “smart village frameworks” for rural villages with the support of state and local governments in India and UC Berkeley. He published four books to support his thesis : “How to Create Smart Villages: Open Innovation Solutions for Emerging Markets”, “How to Think like the CEO of the Planet”, “The Untouchables” and “Smart Villages of Tomorrow: The Road to Mori” and is known as the Father of the Smart Village Movement.