Günter Koch

This article deals with the computer scientist Günter Koch. For the football reporter see Günther Koch , for other people see Günter Koch (disambiguation) .

Günter R. Koch (born August 4, 1947 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German computer scientist , management consultant , research manager and project developer .

Life

Koch studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe . After that, he was founder and CEO of several software companies, from 1993 to 1997 founding and Director General of the European Commission which was launched European Software Institute and finally from 1998 to 2003 CEO of the Austrian Research Centers (ARC, formerly Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf , today Austrian Institute of Technology . As a member of the steering committee of the European Association of Research and Technology Organizations ( EARTO ), he was the initiator and member of the High Level Expert Groups of the European Commission on the subject of intellectual capital in 2004 , which produced a final report with the acronym RICARDIS on "Knowledge Capital Assessment" publish in particular small and medium enterprises (SMEs). He is the founder and spokesman of the Austrian partnership company execupery and partners of knowledge management Austria (KM-A) with key activities in the knowledge economy , knowledge management and intellectual capital . It is true, Together with the (meanwhile deceased) Ursula Schneider, formerly professor at the University of Graz, as developer of the intellectual capital statement and in particular the "standard" knowledge balance model, as it became known in Germany as "intellectual capital statement - Made in Germany ". In 2007/2008 he was executive director of the newly founded Central European Institute of Technology ( CEIT ) near Vienna. Since 2006 he has been the Secretary General of the New Club of Paris on whose behalf he has been building the Humboldt Cosmos Multiversity on Tenerife , Canary Islands since 2012 . Koch lives alternately in Vienna and Tenerife. As a part-time job, Koch runs the art and event gallery KoKo in Vienna, whose specialty is Art Brut art exhibitions .

He also holds visiting professorships in systems research and research management and is today adj. Professor at Graz University of Technology and visiting professor at Danube University . In 2011, Koch was acting general secretary of the New Club of Paris , board member of the Association of Austrian Software Industry (VÖSI), founding and vice president of the Austrian Association of Research in IT (AARIT) - the Austrian branch of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics ERCIM , and “Fellow” of the Vienna futurology group Kenos-Circle founded by John Casti . I.a. he is on the Advisory Board of the European Leonardo Learning Award . He has held various supervisory board mandates, including chairman, at various software companies, such as at GiS GmbH, based in Erlangen, since 2013.

Publications (selection)

Koch has written around 100 publications, including several books, including the "Introduction to Computer Science" in the 1970s and 1980s. In 2010/2011 he was co-author and editor of the country report of the New Club of Paris on Austria under the title "Austria's transformation into the knowledge society" a. a. together with the former Austrian Vice Chancellor Erhard Busek with public proposals on how to shape a national transformation process from the information society to the knowledge society. With the same mission, he has been involved in countries in the so-called Danube region since 2013 to develop regional intellectual capital statements with the aim of profiling the Danube region as a “knowledge region”.

The following publications are representative of Koch's work:

• Visioning workshop for non-university research in Austria . Krems 2003, TIM-Fachbuchverl, ISBN 978-3-901876-19-6
• together with Rembold, Ulrich: Introduction to computer science for engineers and natural scientists , Munich 1987, Hanser Fachbuchverlag
• Requirements for a specification and design method for process automation systems . Karlsruhe 1979, Univ., Faculty of Computer Science
• Hoffmann, Rainer H .; Koch, Günter R .: Statistical information on the current status of process data processing in the FRG: (e. Survey, its results and conclusions regarding profitability analyzes when using PVD) . Karlsruhe 1976, Inst. For Computer Science 3, Chair for Planning a. Programming techniques of process computers

Awards

• Cross of honor for science and art first class for his renovation and development work for the Austrian Institute of Technology , as well as for the foundation of the intellectual capital statement, introduced today as a legally binding control tool for the Austrian universities
• Kaplan inventor's medal from the Austrian Patent Holders and Inventors Association for his achievements as a technologist.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günter Koch - Portrait (PDF; 932 kB) accessed on April 15, 2011
2. ↑ Günter Koch - Curriculum Vitae  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 70 kB) accessed on April 15, 2011  
3. ↑ Günter Koch - execupery , accessed on 15 April 2011th