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Clem Bowman

Full name
Dr. C. W. (Clem) Bowman
Degrees
C.M., PhD., P.Eng., FCIC, FCAE
Practice Areas:
Energy R&D / Science & Technology, Technology Commercialization, Corporate Performance Evaluation and Strategic Assessment
Bio

Clem Bowman’s extensive work as a researcher and research manager includes a variety of high-level appointments in the energy and environmental sectors, both at the government and corporate levels.

As co-founder of ProGrid Evaluation Solutions Dr. Bowman continues to work to share a world of knowledge and experience in the commercialization of technology. ProGrid’s tools for evaluating intellectual capital are being used by venture capitalists and with a growing list of major Canadian and international scientific and technical organizations. As a consultant to organizations of all sizes, Dr. Bowman brings a unique insight and understanding of the challenges inherent in evaluating opportunities, risks or performance. His work has led to successful commercialization of major new technologies and to significant improvements in the practices of technology-intensive organizations.

Dr. Bowman’s career highlights include being:

Chair of the Alberta Government’s Technology and Research Advisory Committee (where he coordinated the technology efforts of some 14 government departments and agencies); President of the Alberta Research Council, a government-owned applied research and development corporation. Dr. Bowman oversaw a quadrupling of non-government contract revenues from $5 million per year to $20 million annually; and Vice-President responsible for the Research Centre at Esso Petroleum Canada. Dr. Bowman was the founding chairman of the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA), a crown corporation of the Alberta Government.

Dr. Bowman has received a number of awards, including Member of the Order of Canada and the 2008 Global Energy International Prize.

Latest Blog Posts:

Energy and ProGrid

Submitted on June 1, 2009, 9:23 am

I don’t think that Canadians yet realize how important energy is to our economy and our way of life. 

Canada has had opportunities to be world leaders in other sectors, such as forestry, minerals processing, aeronautics and automotives.  Yet although we have done well at times in all of these, we have missed opportunities for making the leap to world leadership. 

To weight or not to weight?

Submitted on February 8, 2009, 4:59 pm

Experience has shown that having differential weights on criteria leads to proponents spending more time and effort on these and thus doing a poor job on “other” criteria.  These “other” criteria are, however, critical to the success of the overall program and should not be neglected.

It is essential, then, to design the system to make the criteria roughly equal.  If one criterion is felt to be “bigger” it can usually be broken into two smaller components which will result in an easier job for both the proponents and the reviewers.