MBA after a PhD in Engineering field

Dear PL,

Thanks a lot for your reply. Of course, I am interested in a career in industry or if I stay in academia I am planning to move to the administration/management side including business development (e.g. marketing department of an university). In the long-term i do not see myself just sitting in the lab bench doing research...but more interested in having a career where a synergistic mix of scientific background and business skills are required (e.g. investment banking, domain specific business consulting).

Other focus areas where PhD + MBA can be useful are: if a PhD has potential patents and wants to become an entrepreneur or if the same PhD wants to take a lead role in any university where he wants to coach people on technology transfer, IP, to help manage industry-academia interactions, and to transform best students ideas to become start-ups etc.,. Ofcourse, a PhD can also start his own technology consulting business and for which an MBA could be useful...

But I can clearly understand that work experience (preferably outside academia) on top of a PhD becomes critical to get inside a B-school...Or one stays in academia post-PhD like post-doc, then he/she should have show the ability to manage projects, to be innovative via patents etc...

kind regards,
V