Michael Schefczyk (industrial engineer)

Michael Schefczyk (born March 31, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German economist , industrial engineer and holder of the chair for entrepreneurship and innovation at the Technical University of Dresden .

Career

Schefczyk studied industrial engineering at the University of Hamburg from 1986 to 1989 . In 1989 he moved as a Fulbright - scholarship at the Georgia Institute of Technology and acquired in 1990 the master -degree.

After his return to Germany, he worked for the management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton in the telecommunications sector between April 1991 and April 1999 , and from October 1, 1997 as a member of the management team. During this time his doctorate he in May 1994 to Dr. rer. pole. at RWTH Aachen on the topic of critical success factors in shrinking industries, illustrated using the example of the foundry industry . In December 1997 he completed his habilitation at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg with an empirical study on the success strategies of German venture capital companies .

In May 1999 he was appointed to the newly founded chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Technical University of Dresden, which was established by an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology with a grant from SAP AG . His teaching activities there focus on business start-ups and technology and innovation management . He also heads the dresden | exists initiative , which is dedicated to the establishment of a company by students, graduates and employees of Dresden universities.

Since March 2005 he has been working part-time as a tax advisor , and since September 2009 as a specialist advisor for international tax law .

Michael Schefczyk is married and a father.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Schefczyk in the catalog of the German National Library

• Chair at TU Dresden with employee profile
• Tax advisor Schefczyk
• Up initiative Dresden | exists
• Private homepage