Knut Blind

Knut Blind (* 1965 ) is a German economist . He deals with general questions of innovation research, in particular with the influence of regulatory framework conditions on innovations.

Life

Blind studied economics, political science and psychology at the University of Freiburg and Brock University in Canada. He worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Public Finance in Freiburg, where he received his doctorate . He completed his habilitation at the University of Kassel . Since 2006 he has been a professor for the field of innovation economics at the Technical University of Berlin . This department in the Institute for Technology and Management of the Faculty of Business and Management was set up in 2006 together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe. From 2008 to 2016 he held the endowed chair of standardization at the Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam .

From 1996 to 2010 Blind held managerial positions at the (ISI) in Karlsruhe. In 2010 he moved to the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin, from where he returned to the ISI in Karlsruhe in October 2019, where he took over the management of the Innovation and Regulation division.

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Blind has published in high-profile international journals, including Research Policy, Technovation, Journal of Technology Transfer, Industrial an Corporate Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Telecommunications Policy and Journal of Productivity Analysis, Industry & Innovation and R&D Management. For his life's work, he has been one of the leading German business economists in the Handelsblatt business economist ranking , which was adopted by Wirtschaftswoche in 2018. He was also listed in the 2013 FAZ economists ranking of the most influential German economists. Blind's dissertation was awarded the FA v. Hayek Prize awarded by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Freiburg.

In 2012 he initiated the German Standardization Panel together with DIN eV, the German Institute for Standardization and the Berlin Innovation Panel by commissioning the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). Both panels can already fall back on eight annual surveys.

Honourings and prices

• 2017: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
• 2016: ISPIM Knut Holt Best Paper Award for "To Standardize or to Patent? Development of a Decision Making Tool and Recommendations for Young Companies" together with Nizar Abdelkafi, Sergiy Makhotin, Marina Thuns and Anna Pohle from the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy
• 2015: Award for the second best paper "Regulation and Standardization of Data Protection in Cloud Computing" together with Martin Löhe (Technical University Berlin, Germany) at the ITU Kaleidoscope 2015 conference "Trust in the Information Society"
• 2013: WISU Prof homepage of the month October 2013
• 2012: IEC - IEEE 2nd prize for the paper "The benefits of standards and standardization in the German electric and electronic industry" together with Dr. Axel Mangelsdorf

Web links

• Department of Innovation Economics, Technical University of Berlin
• Chair of Standardization, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Presentation of the academic career of the Faculty of Business & Management at the TU Berlin [1] (accessed on February 21, 2020)
2. ↑ http://www.inno.tu-berlin.de/menue/publikationen/
3. ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking Business Administration 2009 , Top 200 Life Achievement Researchers (accessed on December 3, 2012)
4. ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking Business Administration 2012 , Top 100 researchers currently (accessed on December 3, 2012)
5. ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking Business Administration 2014 , Top 250 Life Achievement Researchers (accessed on May 12, 2015)
6. ↑ Research monitoring . Retrieved January 28, 2019 . 
7. ^ Press release from TU Berlin, October 14, 2013 .
8. ↑ Article ZEW - Innovation Report Berlin 2013 - Berlin economy very innovation-oriented. In: zew.de. Retrieved May 23, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Innovation study: Why start-ups need special neighbors - WiWo founder . In: WiWo founder . January 17, 2017 ( wiwo.de [accessed January 18, 2017]).
10. ↑ acatech: News Detail. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 16, 2017 ; accessed on January 31, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ ISPIM Awards . In: ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management . ( ispim.org [accessed November 28, 2016]). ISPIM Awards ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ^ Trust in the Information Society. In: ITU. Retrieved November 28, 2016 . 
13. ^ IEEE-SA - IEC-IEEE Challenge: First Prize Awarded to University of Colorado for Academic Publication on Cloud Computing Standardization. In: standards.ieee.org. Retrieved November 28, 2016 .