Andrew Hargadon is the Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Technology Management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis. He is the author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate. He has written extensively about knowledge and technology brokering and the role of learning and knowledge management in innovation. Hargadon is the founding director of two key centers at the University of California, Davis—the Center for Entrepreneurship, and the Energy Efficiency Center . The centers are dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and innovation through educational programs bridging science, engineering, and business. Hargadon received his Ph.D. from the Management Science and Engineering Department in Stanford University’s School of Engineering. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Stanford University’s Product Design Program in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Prior to his academic appointment, he worked as a product designer at Apple Computer and taught in the Product Design program at Stanford University.