Catherine Beaudry

Catherine Beaudry is a Full Professor at the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering of Polytechnique Montréal, holding a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Management and Economics of Innovation. She directs the 4POINT0 partnership and serves as Principal Investigator at CIRANO while holding adjunct professor status at Université du Québec à Montréal.

Her education includes a

• B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering (Space Technology) from Polytechnique Montréal
• M.Phil. in Economics from University of Oxford
• D.Phil. in Economics from University of Oxford

Research interests focus on innovation ecosystems and their measurement, knowledge networks, open innovation dynamics, and science-policy interfaces. She examines how industrial clusters interact with science networks to affect organizational performance, using web mining and text analysis for real-time innovation indicators.

Scientific contributions include:

• Prix Acfas Jacques-Rousseau 2022
• Innovation Policy Trailblazer Award 2023
• Prix d'excellence en recherche et innovation 2024
• Fellow of Royal Society of Canada (2021)

Student supervision covers 4 Ph.D. and 3 Master's students in progress, with 13 completed Ph.D. and 21 completed Master's students since 2005. Her work influences Policy Horizons Canada, OECD, and Health Canada through evidence-based innovation indicators.

Laboratory affiliations include Laboratoire Poly-Industries 4.0, Laboratoire en intelligence des données, and Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO), where she develops web mining tools for innovation measurement.