Leonard Lynn is Professor of Management Policy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Lynn earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan (1980). He is the author of Organizing Business: Trade Associations in America and Japan (with Timothy McKeown), How Japan Innovates: A Comparison with the U.S. in the Case of Oxygen Steelmaking, Strategic New Product Development for the Global Economy (forthcoming in 2007, with Toyohiro Kono), and more than fifty articles in such journals as Science, Research Policy, Journal of Engineering Technology-Management, IEEE Management Transactions, Issues in Science and Technology, Organization Studies, Columbia Journal of World Business, Asian Business and Management and Contemporary Sociology, most of them on aspects of technology policy and management. Several of his studies have involved U.S.-Japanese comparisons. One of his books and some of his other writings on these topics have been translated and published in Japanese. He is now principle investigator on NSF and Kauffman-funded projects exploring technology transfer via multinationals to (and from) emerging economies. Colleagues in the U.S. Germany, Japan, Korea, China, and Mexico are involved in these projects.

Lynn has been a Fulbright visiting research scholar at Tokyo University and a Japan Ministry of Education Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi University.  He is a past president of the Association of Japanese Business Studies, member of the American Advisory Committee of the Japan Foundation, and member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Engineering Technology Management, The Journal of Asian Business and Management, and Managing Global Transitions.  Lynn has presented his research at universities, government organizations, and companies in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, China-Taiwan, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Thailand, the UK, as well as the United States. Several of the presentations in Japan were made in Japanese. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, Association of Japanese Business Studies, IEEE, and the International Association for the Management of Technology (where he received the IAMOT Research Award at the 2004 IAMOT Annual Meetings. He was Chair of the Department of Marketing and Policy Studies at Case from January 1995 until July 2006.