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Congress Academic Advisory Committee
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University of Applied Sciences
Professor Dr Peter Granig,
Founder and
Academic Director, Innovation Congress
Innovation
is his calling.
Dr Peter Granig, born in 1969, is a Professor of Business Administration and
Innovation Management at The University of Applied Sciences Carinthia since 2005.
After
completion of an
in-house electrician apprenticeship
and completion of an executive Higher
Technical School Course, he studied
Business Administration and Group Dynamics at The Alpe-Adria University of
Klagenfurt, as well as Management and Marketing at The University of Northern
Iowa, USA. He wrote his
Doctoral Thesis regarding
the theme
"Assessment of innovations,
with the help of risk
simulations" at the Institute for Controlling
and Strategic Management at
The Alpe-Adria University of Klagenfurt.
Dr Granig has
got more than 20 years of experience in the fields of Innovation Management and
Business Development in national and
international companies, and
he is the author of numerous
professional publications regarding
the themes of innovation and Innovation Management.
His
latest research focus is Strategic Innovation
Management, Business Model Innovation and Strategy Development.
Statement
regarding this year’s Innovation Congress Theme:
„The potential of traditional management has reached its limits, if the changes
in the business environment are so great, that business units, or whole organisations,
cannot live up to the reason
of their existence.
But, for
innovation and
Innovation Management, this is
in most cases just the starting point.
The Innovation Congress 2012, with the theme The Secrets of Innovation, uncovers many mini secrects of innovation, that make the seemingly
impossible possible.“
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Prof Oliver Gassmann
Congress Academic Advisor
Prof
Gassmann is the
Chairman of the
Executive Board of the
Institute of Technology Management at The University of St.
Gallen, as well as the Professor for Innovation Management at
The University of St. Gallen.Prof
Gassmann is one of the most
renowned Innovation Professors in the world. In 2010, he was one of the
most-quoted Management Professors worldwide, in 2009 he received
the award Top 50
Researcher worldwide from
the International Association
of Management and
Technology, and in 1998 he received
the RADMA Prize.
He
is active on the Editorial Boards of
R&D Management, Creativity & Innovation
Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management, the main Lecturer
in numerous Executive MBA Programmes, Author and Publisher of 14 books and more than
230 Professional Publications, is on the Editorial Boards of numerous international magazines
and is also a
Consultant for a number
of Fortune 500 Companies.
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Dr Erich Hartlieb,
Congress Academic Advisor
The
Upper Carinthia Native,
born in 1969, is
Professor for Innovation and
Technology Management at The University of Applied Sciences Carinthia in the study field of Geo Information.
He
graduated from The
Technical University of Graz as
an Industrial Engineer, where he also worked for 4 years as University Assistant at the Institute for Industrial
Business Administration and Innovation Research. Dr Hartlieb is a Founding Member and Advisor of The Knowledge Management Forum Graz. Then,
he was a Strategy and
Innovation Consultant for corporations
and medium-sized companies. He is also the author of numerous
professional publications from
the field of his professional specialisation, and he also gave numerous lectures.
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Dr Hans Lercher,
Congress Academic Advisor
Dr Lercher, born in 1968, is one of
the most prominent
Consultants and Professors regarding
the theme of innovation in Central
Europe and is obsessed with this theme.
He
is the Course Director of the Executive Innovation
Management Course at
The University of Applied Sciences
Campus02 in Graz and University Lecturer for Creative Techniques, as well as Technology and Innovation Management at numerous Universities.
In
2001, he and a partner founded the Consulting Firm
IMG Innovation-Management-Group with offices in Graz and
Baden/Wien, where he is
also the Managing Partner. Furthermore,
in 2002, he founded a High-Tech Start-Up Business in Vienna with business partners, which he left in 2007 after a
financial partner joined the business.
He
graduated from The
Technical University of Graz, where
he studied Telematics, as well as
Business Administration, Law and Economics, and then worked
for four years as University Assistant at the Institute for Industrial
Business Administration of The Technical
University of Graz.
Up to now,
he managed more than 150 Consulting Projects (for
example, for AVL,
Magna, EVK, Siemens, Komptech, SEZ, Ebner, Maresi, Engel, Lenzing, W&H, Brasseler,
Sony, etc.), and he is the author of Professional Articles and Publications related to his area
of expertise.
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University Professor Dr Kurt Matzler,
Congress Academic Advisor
Since 2007 he is Professor for Strategic Management at
The University of Innsbruck, Visiting
Professor at The University of
Bozen and Academic Director
of the Executive MBA
Programme at The MCI University of Applied Sciences in Innsbruck.
His research work is focused on the areas of
Innovation and Strategy
Co-Creation, Crowd
Sourcing and Business Model Innovation. He studied Business Administration at
The University of Innsbruck, received
a Doctorate in 1997 and
his Habilitation in 2001. He was Marketing
Professor at The University of
Klagenfurt from 2003 until
2005. He was the Director
of the Institute for International Management at
The University of Linz from
2005 to 2007.
Visiting Professor and Research
Projects at the Wharton
School of The University of
Pennsylvania, Fairfield University in
Connecticut, Southeast Missouri State University and at The Bocconi University in Milan.
At the time of
his appointment as a Professor at The
University of Klagenfurt in 2003, at the age
of 34, he was the third-youngest Business Administration Professor in all
of the German-speaking countries.
He
is the author, respectively the publisher of more than
20 books, as well as the
author of more than 200 scientific articles, among others, in magazines such as MIS
Quarterly, Journal of Product
Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, California
Management Review, Information Systems Journal, Technovation,
Creativity and
Innovation Management, Journal of Economic Psychology,
Marketing Letters, Industrial Marketing Management, etc..
Kurt
Matzler is the Co-Author of the German Edition of the book
Innovator’s Dilemma, along
with Professor Clayton Christensen of The Harvard Business School (the
most influential
Management Thinker worldwide
and Number One in the ranking of the Top 50 Thinkers), the book is
one of the 100 best business books ever published (Covert et al.
2011).
In
2009, he was ranked by the German Handelsblatt Newspaper among
the Top 20 up-and-coming
Business Administration Experts in the German-speaking
countries.
In
2010, he received the Emerald Citation of Excellence Award for a paper about Avatar-based Innovation and in 2012
he received the Best
Paper Award of the Creativity & Innovation Management Magazine.
Kurt
Matzler is regarded as (based on his research output), according to a recent study of the Schmalenbach
Business Review, as one
of the three best Marketing
Professors of the
German-speaking countries.
As
a Partner of IMP, an International Consulting
Firm with offices in six countries, he is also closely connected to the business
world as a Consultant.
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University Professor Dr Schwarz,
Congress Academic Advisor
In
1998, Prof Schwarz was appointed as a Professor at The Alpe-Adria
University of Klagenfurt.
Since 1999, he is the Department Director of the Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
Department of The Alpe-Adria University of Klagenfurt. In 2009, he became
the Faculty Director of the Business Administration and
Economics Faculty of
The Alpe-Adria University of Klagenfurt.
In
2002, he played a major
role in the founding of the Business Start-Up Centre build!, and is also a Member of the Centre
Advisory Committee since
its foundation.
Since 2010, he is also the Director of the Sports, Health and Entrepreneurship Master’s
Programme at The Alpe-Adria University of Klagenfurt.
His
research focus is on the fields
of innovation, entrepreneurship, technology management and environmental management.
Prof
Schwarz graduated with
a Master’s Degree in Metallurgy at The University of Mining Leoben in 1990. He received
his Doctorate in
Industrial Engineering in 1994 at The Technical
University of Graz.
Prof
Schwarz received his
Habilitation in Business Administration in 1998 at
The University of Graz.
He
was a Visiting Professor and
a Research Professor at The Polytechnic
Institute and The State University of Virginia, Clemson
University in South Carolina, The Arizona State University in Phoenix, The
University of Essen, The International University
Institute in Zittau, The University of Maribor, as well as
at The University of
Mining Leoben.
In
2010, he was appointed as
a Management and Organisation Professor at The Technical University of
Graz.
He
is the Author or the
Co-Author of nine books, as well as
the Writer or the Co-Writer of more than 140 scientific articles, that were published
in leading international periodicals.
Prof
Schwarz received numerous
awards for his lectures, as well as
his research.
As
a Board Member of the
Innovation Management Platform, as a Lecturer of various post-graduate MBA Programmes (at
The Alpe-Adria University of Klagenfurt and at The Management Center
Innsbruck), as well as a Consultant for, in particular, new and innovative firms, he is in constant touch with, and cooperates with, the business
world.
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Dr Roland Waldner
Congress Academic Advisor
Born
on the 24 November 1964.
Attended Grammar School in
Klagenfurt, and studied
Music at The Klagenfurt Music Academy.
From 1984 until 1990: Studied Plastics Engineering at
The Leoben University of Mining.
From 1991 until 1993: Research Associate at the Institute for Art and Composite Materials Construction
of The Leoben University of
Mining.
In
1994, he joined Philips as
a Product Developer.
Since 1999, Dr Waldner managed various Product Development Teams, with
a particular emphasis
on the pre-development stage/Fuzzy Front End.
Lecturer at The Alpe-Adria
University of Klagenfurt (in the
field of Creative Techniques), at The Technical
University of Graz, and
at WIFI Carinthia (in the field of
Plastics Engineering), among others.
Since 2002, he manages the Innovation & Creativity
Programme at Philips Consumer Lifestyle in
Klagenfurt, with a focus
on Innovation Culture.
From 2004 until 2008: Doctoral Thesis regarding
Open Innovation at The Alpe-Adria University of Klagenfurt.
In
2010, he was appointed as
the Improvement Manager
and Competence Team (FUNction
Development) Manager at Philips Consumer
Lifestyle in Klagenfurt.
Since 2012, he is a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Austrian TRIZ Competence Centre.
Dr.
Waldner attended various
courses in the fields of TRIZ, FMEA, DesignForSixSigma(DFSS)/Green Belt, as
well as presentation techniques courses.
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