Tobias Kollmann

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Tobias Kollmann (born April 12, 1970 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) is a professor of business administration and business informatics , especially e-business and e-entrepreneurship at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen . From 2013 to 2020 he was the chairman of the Young Digital Economy Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy .

Life

Tobias Kollmann studied economics with a focus on marketing at the Universities of Bonn and Trier . After graduating in 1995 with a degree in economics, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Marketing at the University of Trier. There he received his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on the acceptance of innovative telecommunications and multimedia systems. Since 1996 he has been working scientifically on questions of e-business , e-commerce and the phenomenon of " virtual marketplaces ". Between 1997 and 2001 he worked a. a. for Scout24-Holding in Switzerland and was one of the founding shareholders of AutoScout24 . In October 2001 he accepted a call to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he took over a chair for e-business. Since April 2005 he has held the chair for business administration and business informatics at the University of Duisburg-Essen , Essen campus.

His research focus is " E-Business " and " E-Entrepreneurship ", with questions about business start-ups, management and development in the digital economy . In 2004 he brought the work " E-Venture " (now under the title "E-Entrepreneurship") the first textbook only for business start-ups in the digital economy. The magazine “Mobile Business” describes this textbook as “one of the most important German basic works for digital companies”. His textbook "E-Business" has also been a standard work since 2004 for teaching the basics of electronic business processes and models. "Media.valley" wrote that "the book is required reading for every top manager in order to keep his company in the digital economy alive in the future". In 2005 he also launched the first German-language lexicon for setting up a company .

He is editor and reviewer for national and international magazines in the entrepreneurship and e-business area and was a member of the jury for the German Multimedia Award 2002 and 2003.

He is one of the editors of the "Entrepreneurship" series of publications by Gabler.

He was part of the coaching network for the start-up competition “Start successfully with multimedia” of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), for which he also works as an expert on the advisory board of the EXIST funding program. For the BMWi and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, he also organized the 1st Startup Battle in 2012, a pitching for company founders in the ICT sector as part of the nationwide IT summit in Essen.

During the "Science Year 2014 - The Digital Economy" he was responsible for the "E-Entrepreneurship Flying Circus" (# EEFC14), a nationwide bus tour to universities in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Nuremberg and Stuttgart to promote entrepreneurship for the digital economy.

From 2005 to 2008 he was a member of the executive committee of the “Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung eV (FGF)”, responsible for promoting young researchers. Since 2007 chairman for the next generation of academics in the context of the Marketing Commission in the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration

In 2012 he was a founding member of the Federal Association of German Startups eV and was appointed to the association's first advisory board by its board.

In 2013, the then Federal Minister for Economics and Technology, Philipp Rösler , appointed him to the new 24-person advisory board “Young Digital Economy” at the BMWi. This advisory board is intended to advise the Federal Minister of Economics on issues relating to the digital economy. In April 2013 he was elected chairman of this body. In March 2014 he was confirmed as chairman of the advisory board at the first meeting after the 2013 federal election under the leadership of the then Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Sigmar Gabriel , and was re-elected by the members. He was re-elected as chairman on May 16, 2015. The subsequent Federal Minister of Economics, Peter Altmaier, reappointed him in 2018, which unanimously re-elected him as chairman on August 30, 2018. On June 4, 2020, he officially announced that after seven years in office he will not run for the chair again, whereupon Peter Altmaier thanked him very much for his work and gave him "significant impetus for the future-proof framework of the digital economy in Germany and Europe "certified.

On October 27, 2015, after a speech in the Élysée Palace, he presented the action plan for innovation at the French-German conference on the digital economy together with Benoît Thieulin, chairman of the French “National Council for Digitales” (Conseil national du numérique, CNNum) (API) "Digital Innovation and Digital Transformation in Europe" to Federal Minister of Economics Sigmar Gabriel and Emmanuel Macron, France's Minister for Economic Affairs, Industry and Digital. It contains 15 suggestions for strengthening an internationally competitive European digital economy. Central topics are the training and promotion of digital skills, the development of a European ecosystem for digital startups, the financing of digital innovations, the establishment of a digital single market and the digital transformation of the European economy.

On December 13, 2016, he and the new chairman of the French CNNum presented the joint action paper "Digitization is a fundamental question for Europe!" to Federal Minister of Economics Sigmar Gabriel and his French counterpart Michel Sapin in Berlin as part of the second German-French Digital conference. The catalog of measures contains six concrete proposals for the common digital single market in Europe on the topics of European standards for data security, uniform regulations for data use, support for the internationalization of start-ups, establishment of European hubs for Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things, research and funding in this area Artificial intelligence and harmonization of European tax systems for digital companies.

In March 2014, Garrelt Duin , the Minister for Economic Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , appointed him as the representative for the digital economy in NRW. In this role, as a direct contact person, he is supposed to bridge the gap between founders, science, capital and industry and develop a strategy for the digital economy as a cross-sectional sector from the internet economy, information and communication economy in or for NRW. On June 19, 2015, he and the North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of Economic Affairs presented this strategy under the title “Heads, capital and cooperation from and for startups, medium-sized companies and industry for digital business processes and models” with the associated package of measures amounting to 42 million euros for the digital economy in NRW. As a result, a study by the Institute for the German Economy in Cologne, which was presented on April 3, 2017, showed that this strategy and the associated measures had already produced over 1,000 new startups for the digital economy in North Rhine-Westphalia after just three years, the degree of digitization in the NRW Mittelstand was above the national average and industrial companies from NRW were able to position themselves in the digitization index ahead of their competitors from the rest of Germany.

In 2004, as the initiator and project manager, together with T-Mobile and Motorola , he realized the first mobile app in the form of the first UMTS event portal in Germany for the Kieler Woche .

Since 2001, Kollmann has been managing director of netSTART Venture GmbH (formerly eBusiness network group GmbH) in Cologne, a consulting and investment company for companies, start-ups, business angels and a provider of venture capital within the net economy. In 2005 he was included in the “BAND Heaven of Fame” by the Business Angels Network Germany eV and in 2012 was elected Business Angel of the Year and awarded the “Golden Nose”. In 2015 he successfully sold his associated investment company netSTART Venture GmbH as part of an exit to Mountain Partners Holding from Switzerland. Since 2018 he has been the managing partner of netSTART GmbH, through which he not only offers lectures, seminars and workshops as a sought-after speaker, but also runs the netSTART Academy, an extra-occupational training and further education system for the digital economy with distance learning courses for certified e-business Manager (Digital Management) and E-Business Leader (Digital Leadership).

According to Business Punk magazine (02/2014 issue), he is one of the 50 most important figures on the startup scene in Germany. The editors of politik & kommunikation (issue 117/2016) consider him one of the most important players in digitization in political Berlin. According to the FAZ, he has been one of the 100 most influential economists in Germany since 2018 and has "weight in media, research and politics".

In September 2016 he published together with Dr. Holger Schmidt , chief internet correspondent for FOCUS magazine and blog author of Netzökonom, wrote the bestseller “Germany 4.0”. This book shows how the digital transformation for society, economy and politics can succeed for our country. In October 2018 he published the book "Digital Opinion Making: 60 Advice to Founders, Entrepreneurs and Politics for Digital Transformation", which is a collection of his columns at manager-magazin and the Huffington Post from 2002 to 2018 as a journey through time on the digital topics of the new Millennium presented over time.

Football official

During the 2009/10 season he was president of the regional soccer division Bonner SC , but resigned from office after nine months in April 2010. He justified this with the insufficient financial resources of the association for a successful cooperation.

From 2010 to 2012 Kollmann was President of FC Viktoria Köln . During this tenure, he modernized the structures and the branding and led the club to the championship in the NRW League in 2012 and thus to promotion to the Regionalliga West.

From 2013 to 2014 he was a member of the supervisory board of 1. FC Köln GmbH & Co. KGaA, the gaming company of 1. FC Köln . In this context, he accompanied the club's championship in the 2nd Bundesliga and the associated return to the 1st Bundesliga in the 2013/2014 season.

Publications

author

  • 2020: Digital Leadership - Fundamentals of Corporate Management in the Digital Economy, Wiesbaden 2020.
  • 2019: E-Business - Basics of Electronic Business Processes in the Digital Economy, 7th edition, Wiesbaden 2019.
  • 2019: E-Business compact - Basics of electronic business processes in the digital economy with over 70 case studies, Wiesbaden 2019.
  • 2019: E-Entrepreneurship - Foundations of Entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy, 7th edition, Wiesbaden 2019.
  • 2019: Digital Marketing - Basics of Sales Policy in the Digital Economy, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 2019.
  • 2018: Digital opinion making: 60 pieces of advice to founders, entrepreneurs and politicians for the digital transformation, Cologne / Essen 2018.
  • 2016: Germany 4.0: How the digital transformation succeeds, Wiesbaden 2016.

editor

  • 2015: Entrepreneurial Marketing - Special features, tasks and solution approaches for start-up companies, Freiling, J. & Kollmann, T. (Ed.), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2015.
  • 2009: Gabler compact encyclopedia company foundation - look up, understand, apply 2,000 terms, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2009.
  • 2007: Web 2.0 - Trends and Technologies in the Context of the Net Economy (together with Matthias Häsel), Wiesbaden 2007.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Jarzombek: “Maintaining the current digitization push”. BMWI, June 4, 2020, accessed on August 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 5 manuals for founders | IT market. In: www.it-zoom.de. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ E-business. In: www.mediavalley.de. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Fileee wins startup battle. November 20, 2012, archived from the original on August 28, 2016 ; accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Flying Circus wants to inspire start-up training ( Memento from October 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ E-Entrepreneurship Flying Circus. October 17, 2014, archived from the original on October 17, 2014 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 .
  8. ^ Bundesverband Deutsche Startups eV founded. October 15, 2012, archived from the original on February 8, 2013 ; Retrieved November 27, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Rösler strengthens the young digital economy with its own advisory board. BMWi , January 15, 2013, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Start-up offensive: Rösler introduces the new chairman of the advisory board, Kollmann. BMWi, April 22, 2013, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Gabriel: Further improve growth conditions for young and innovative companies. BMWi, March 5, 2014, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  12. ^ Newly constituted Advisory Board for Young Digital Economy. BMWi, June 17, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Altmaier consults with the advisory board "Junge Digitale Wirtschaft": We want more investments in digital growth companies. BMWi, August 30, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
  14. ^ Advisory boards at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. BMWi, October 27, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Public Relations Department: Advisory Board "Young Digital Economy". In: www.bmwi.de. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Minister of Economic Affairs Duin appoints Prof. Dr. Tobias Kollmann as representative for the digital economy. MWEIMH NRW, March 7, 2014, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Package of measures for the development of the digital economy in NRW presented. MWEIMH NRW, June 19, 2015, archived from the original on August 28, 2016 ; accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  18. ^ Study on the digital economy of North Rhine-Westphalia. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 3, 2017, accessed on April 3, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Bernd Peters: Invented ten years ago: Cologne professor is Papa App. EXPRESS, April 16, 2014, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  20. ↑ "BAND Heaven of Fame" has three new members. November 14, 2005, archived from the original on February 7, 2013 ; Retrieved August 3, 2011 .
  21. ↑ Niklas Wirminghaus: Exit for the startup professor - Tobias Kollmann sells Netstart Venture to Mountain Partners. In: gruenderszene.de. April 13, 2015, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  22. ↑ These are the most important players in digitization . In: Politics & Communication . ( Online [accessed December 21, 2016]).
  23. ↑ Germany's most influential economists. FAZ, December 31, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Tobias Kollmann, Holger Schmidt: Germany 4.0: How the digital transformation succeeds . Springer Gabler, 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-11981-2 .
  25. ↑ Tobias Kollmann: Digital opinion making: 60 pieces of advice to founders, entrepreneurs and politicians for digital transformation . Cologne / Essen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-938338-99-5 .
  26. ↑ Thomas Heinen: After seven months Tobias Kollmann resigns from his position. General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , April 12, 2010, archived from the original on April 17, 2010 ; Retrieved April 13, 2010 .
  27. ↑ Michael Krämer: Viktoria Cologne starts again. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , July 11, 2010, archived from the original on July 16, 2010 ; Retrieved October 7, 2010 .
  28. ↑ Viktoria Köln is a master. Kölner Wochenspiegel , June 5, 2012, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Dustin Paczulla: Viktoria Köln: President Kollmann makes his office available at the end of the season. XN Press xtranews, April 29, 2012, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  30. ^ Press release from 1. FC Köln about the new appointment to the KGaA supervisory board. Retrieved July 3, 2013
  31. ^ Press release from 1. FC Köln about the new appointment to the KGaA supervisory board. Retrieved September 20, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kollmann, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH bad Godesberg