Günter Faltin

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Faltin in Frankfurt am Main (2009).

Günter Faltin (born November 25, 1944 in Bamberg ) is a German university professor and company founder.

Life

Günter Faltin grew up in Bamberg. From 1964 to 1968 he studied economics in St. Gallen ( Switzerland ) and Tübingen . In 1972 he received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz . In 1977 he was appointed professor at the Free University of Berlin , where he built up the Entrepreneurship department. He has been appointed to DAAD visiting professorships for several years in Asia and has given scientific lecture series and workshops, including in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, South Korea and Japan. Since 2013 he has been teaching as a visiting professor at Chiang Mai University .

From 1984 to 1988 Faltin was Vice President of the German Action Group for Education - Invention - Innovation (DABEI), Section Berlin. In 1999 he founded the Entrepreneurship Laboratory at the Free University of Berlin, which was adapted from the Wolfsburg Innovation Campus in 2000 . From 2000 to 2003 he was an expert in the Entrepreneurship in Education and Training in Russia, Ukraine project of the European Training Foundation (an EU institution).

In 1985 he initiated the company Projektwerkstatt GmbH with the idea of ​​the "tea campaign" . According to the Tea Board of India , this company has been the world's largest importer of Darjeeling tea since 1995 . Faltin is the initiator (since 1992) and sponsor of the reforestation project SERVE, which is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for Darjeeling / India on site. He is a founding member of the Gründers-Institut e. V. (since 1995). He is a business angel and coach of various start-ups , including ebuero AG (since 2001), RatioDrink AG (2006), the wash campaign and is the initiator of the project workshop's CO 2 campaign. In 2001 he established the Entrepreneurship Foundation , which organizes the annual Entrepreneurship Summit. In 2009 he accepted the "German Founders Award" for the tea campaign.

In 2010 the Federal President awarded him the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as a pioneer of the entrepreneurship idea.

The State University of Tbilisi awarded him an honorary doctorate on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

Teaching

At the center of Faltin's teaching is the idea that entrepreneurship is now generally accessible. In contrast to business administration , entrepreneurship is a creative act. In the knowledge society, a well thought-out concept of ideas (entrepreneurial design) is more decisive for the success of a company than the availability of large amounts of capital. In addition, a foundation can be made from finished components. Thanks to the global standardization of qualities and services in the form of components, the entrepreneur can even play a role in large companies. It is often enough to combine existing components in a new way.

Awards

  • 1997: Award from the Price Babson Foundation, Boston, For Bringing Entrepreneurial Vitality to Academe
  • 2007: Vision Award for life entrepreneurs
  • 2009: German Founder Award : Special award for the tea campaign
  • 2010: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2018: Dr. hc from the University of Tbilisi

Publications

  • Education and Income Generation: The Deficit: Entrepreneurship Skills. In: Axt, Karcher, Schleich: Training or employment crisis in the third world? Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • The University and Entrepreneurship. In: Education in Transition. Wiesbaden 1992.
  • with J. Zimmer: Wealth from Below. 2nd Edition. Berlin 1996. Greek edition 2004.
  • Throwing the net further - for a new culture of entrepreneurship. In: Faltin, Ripsas, Zimmer (ed.): Entrepreneurship. How ideas become companies. Munich 1998.
  • Competencies for Innovative Entrepreneurship. In: Adult Learning and the Future of Work. Unesco Institute for Education, Hamburg 1999.
  • Creating a Culture of Innovative Entrepreneurship. In: Journal of International Business and Economy. Volume 2, No. 1, 2001.
  • For a culture of entrepreneurship - entrepreneurship as a qualification for the future. In: Bucher, Lauermann, Walcher (ed.): Performance - Lust & Last. Vienna 2005.
  • Found a successful company. The entrepreneur as an artist and composer. DIHK, Berlin 2007.
  • Head capitalizes. The completely different way to found a company. About the desire to be an entrepreneur. Hanser, Munich 2008.
  • Entrepreneurship as an innovative process - from initial ideas, concept-creative founders and the Entrepreneurial Society. In: Hermann Doppler, Markus Eurich, Günter Faltin et al., Winfried W. Weber (ed.): Peter Drucker - the man who shaped management: memories and outlook for the 100th birthday. Sordon, 2009.
  • We are the capital. Know the entrepreneur in you. Departure into an intelligent economy. Murmann, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86774-419-5 .
  • Entrepreneurship manual. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2018. ISBN 978-3-658-04993-5 .
  • DAVID versus GOLIATH: We can do business better. Haufe, Freiburg 2019.

Audio books.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What distinguishes a good business idea? In: Impulse. July 19, 2013, accessed on July 28, 2013 : "Günter Faltin, visiting professor at the University of Chiang Mai, set up the Entrepreneurship department at the Free University of Berlin and heads the Entrepreneurship Foundation."
  2. ↑ Entrepreneurship Summit
  3. ↑ German Founder Award 2009
  4. ↑ Medal awards on the Day of German Unity on bundespraesident.de, October 4, 2010
  5. ↑ Biographical data of Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ University of Tbilisi: Award of honorary doctorate on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the university. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Faltin, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faltin, Günter Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg