Jon A. Fredrickson
Founder, Chief Executive Innovation Officer, Einstein’s 55
Jon A. Fredrickson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management, Economics, and Psychology.
| Organization Website |
Jon Fredrickson brings over three decades of leadership in transformative innovation, specializing in Open Innovation and Collaborative Ecosystem capabilities using crowds and new opportunities using technologies such as AI.
Jon’s career is defined by integrity, collaboration, and impact, minimizing innovation failure risks and accelerating results that redefine industries.
His passion lies in helping organizations harness diverse perspectives and technologies to address pressing challenges, and training clients and students in a proven-successful methodology that InnoCentive and Einstein’s 55 staff has used for nearly 25 years.
Inspired by Albert Einstein’s quote on asking the right questions, Einstein’s 55 empowers clients to save lives, protect their businesses, and achieve extraordinary outcomes. Jon’s client solutions have supported some of the world’s largest enterprises, governments, and humanitarian organizations across six continents, producing life-saving medical innovations, transformative traditional and alternative energy solutions, to advancements in space exploration and global security.
Jon is a frequent speaker at corporations and prestigious forums such as The White House OSTP, United Nations, NASA, and global innovation conferences. He has lectured at universities across Asia, the Americas, Europe at the likes of Carnegie Mellon, University of Minnesota – Carlson School, Northwestern University – Kellogg School, The King’s College in the UK, and MIT Sloan, advocating for the transformative potential of Open Innovation that Henry Chesbrough pioneered.