Horst Geschka
Horst Geschka (born April 16, 1938 in Probstau , Czechoslovakia ) is a German innovation researcher. He also deals with futurology .
Life
Horst Geschka studied industrial engineering, specializing in mechanical engineering , at the TH Darmstadt . After completing his studies, he worked from 1963 to 1969 as a research assistant at the business administration chairs at the TH Darmstadt and the University of Marburg ; in Marburg he received his doctorate in 1969 with the thesis "Research and development as an object of operational decisions". rer. pole.
From 1969 to 1983 he worked at the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt / Main and in Columbus / Ohio. Numerous management ideas from the USA and Europe came together here. Geschka has systematized a lot of this and introduced it into German management literature. He set up a department for innovation planning in Frankfurt.
In 1971/72 he carried out a fundamental experimental study of creativity techniques with some colleagues, which made him one of the pioneers in this field in Germany. The aims of the study were: to bring together all creativity techniques worldwide, to examine them according to their principles of action, to test them and, from the findings of the experimental sessions, to determine those parameters that influenced the quality and abundance of the ideas produced by the idea generation teams. This led to method improvements and new developments. a. the card circulation technique and several techniques of creative confrontation emerged, e.g. B. the stimulus word analysis and picture folder brainwriting. In addition, he and his team developed scenario technology and other methods of innovation management.
In 1972 he started the first seminar on creativity techniques. Seminars on further methods in the innovation process followed. This resulted in a training program in which training courses in the methods of innovation management were offered and which he and his employees quickly expanded into the field of "Battelle Management Seminars". Since his time in Battelle, he has also organized around 200 "DIFI conferences" (DIFI - Forum for Innovation Management) on the topics of research, development and innovation.
In 1984 Geschka left the Battelle Institute and founded the management consultancy Dr. Horst Geschka (now Geschka & Partner Management Consulting) with a focus on innovation management.
Horst Geschka received a number of teaching positions at the TH Darmstadt, in 1969 initially as a lecturer, from 1992 as an honorary professor. In 2003 he took over the "Dr. Otto Röhm Endowed Professorship for Entrepreneurship" at the TU Darmstadt, which is limited to five years. In September 2008 he left the university. Geschka has been a professor at the Wilhelm Büchner University for distance learning since 2009.
In the 1990s, the “Darmstädter Kreis - Initiative for Creativity” was created, headed by Geschka and meeting several times a year in Geschka's office. In 1998 the Darmstadt district was incorporated into the Society for Creativity e. V. (current headquarters at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences), whose board of directors has been a member of Geschka since it was founded, including several years as chairman. He has now been made honorary chairman.
Geschka has been a long-standing member of the Association of German Industrial Engineers, has served on the board for 14 years, eight of which as president.
Since 2001 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Scientific and Technical Trend Analysis FhG-INT. Geschka published around 160 articles and 15 books, some as a co-author. Since 1995 Geschka has been the editor of the book series “Innovations- und Technologiemanagement” by Springer-Verlag (Berlin / Heidelberg).
Publications (selection)
- with Ulrike Alter, Götz Schaude and Helmut Schlicksupp: Methods and organization of brainstorming - group study at the Battelle Institute July 1972
- Future of Mobility - Scenarios for the year 2030 - published by the Institute for Mobility Research (ifmo), Munich 2010
- with Thomas Clausen: Open Innovation - Concept and practical experience . In: Jürgen Preiß (Ed.): Year book of creativity. Cologne (JPMK) 2012.
- with Andrea Zirm: FAQ innovation management - 100 questions - 100 answers . Düsseldorf (symposium) 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Horst Geschka , website of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
- ↑ Members of the German Society for Creativity , website of the German Society for Creativity. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geschka, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German innovation researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Probstau , Sudetenland |