Veteran technologist and author of Unicorns, Hype and Bubbles: A Guide to Spotting, Avoiding and Exploiting Investment Bubbles in Tech (2024), Dr. Jeffrey Funk is a professor and consultant with a 40-year career focused on how new technologies emerge and diffuse.

While teaching in Japan in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he was among the first to recognise the potential of smartphones. He worked closely with several Western companies to assist with their implementation of mobile technologies.

After moving to the National University of Singapore in 2007, his research on the economics of new technology led him to identify and become a critic of the “innovation slowdown”