Carolin Haeussler

Carolin Häussler has held the Chair of Organization, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau since 2011. Since then, she has also headed the International Center for Economics and Business Studies, which she founded. In recent years, her teaching is intensively dedicated to the development of interdisciplinary study programmes in the field of Digital Technology and Entrepreneurship. Since 1 May 2019, Prof. Dr. Carolin Häussler has been a member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation, appointed by the German Federal Government. Professor Häussler studied Business Administration at the LMU Munich and as Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also worked as a student and later as a lecturer at the Center for Digital Technology and Entrepreneurship (CDTM) at TU and LMU Munich. She earned her doctorate at the LMU Munich and received the prize of the University Society of the LMU Munich for an outstanding dissertation in 2006. There she also habilitated with a thesis on Incentives, Preferences and Opportunities in Innovation Processes. Guest research stays also took her to Stanford University. Her research focuses on innovation research and entrepreneurship. She is mainly concerned with cooperation strategies of individuals, teams and organizations as well as with fluid forms of organization and the framework conditions for effective and efficient knowledge exchange, production, and recombination. Her work has been published in numerous renowned journals and awarded prizes. As a scientific consultant she works for public and private organizations and as a mentor for start-ups.