Management

Peter Robbins is the founder of the Innovation Foundation, a new innovation agency based in UCD Nova Innovation Park in Belfield. Peter has extensive experience in creating, incubating and developing innovation projects on a global basis.

As a Global Director of Innovation Excellence for GlaxoSmithKline, until June 2009, his role involved helping create the future NPD pipeline (products, services and claims ideas) for leading brands such as Panadol, Lucozade, Aquafresh,  Ribena, NiQuitin and Sensodyne.

Peter held various global, director-level innovation roles in GlaxoSmithKline since January 2004. He has also worked on national and regional projects for many countries including UK, Scandinavia, India, US, Latina and Japan. 

Peter trained at the renowned innovation D-School in Stanford University and is also a graduate of the What-if? Creativity programme in London. He is currently completing a PhD in DCU on how teams can accelerate the development of innovationwithin large companies. He is one of Ireland’s few members of the Market Research Society.

Peter has spoken at many conferences on innovation and he lectures on the topic for the IMI; for DCU; Trinity College; the Irish Centre for Business Excellence and the Ryan Academy.