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Prof. Dr. Tim G. Schweisfurth

Tim G. Schweisfurth is a Full Professor in Organizational Design and Collaboration Engineering.  Before joining TUHH, he was an Associate Professor in High-Tech Business at the University of Twente and Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Southern Denmark. He received his venia legendi from TUM and his Phd from TUHH. His research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship, specifically 1) digital and technology-driven innovation and entrepreneurship, 2) (venture) idea generation and evaluation, and 3) distributed and collaborative innovation. He is Associate Editor at Creativity and Innovation Management and Advisory Editor at Research Policy. In research and consulting he has worked with companies such as Siemens, Osram, Audi, EWE, Mammut, Panasonic, Tempowerk, and others. His research is published in Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, R&D Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, and other outlets.

Curriculum Vitae

01/2023 – today
Full Professor in Organizational Design and Collaboration Engineering, School of Management Sciences and Technology, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
01/2021 – 12/2022
Associate Professor in High-Tech Business, University of Twente, Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences, Enschede, The Netherlands
02/2018 – 12/2020
Associate Professor in Technology and Innovation Management, University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Engineering, Sønderborg, Denmark
09/2020 – 12/2020
Parental leave
04/2019 – 06/2019
Parental leave
05/2013 – 01/2018
PostDoc at Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Management, München, Germany
08/2017 – 12/2017
Visiting scholar at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany
10/2015 – 12/2015
Visiting scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
10/2012 – 12/2012
Visiting scholar at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
09/2009–10/2009
Visiting scholar at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
09/2008 – 04/2013
Research assistant and PhD student at Hamburg University of Technology Hamburg, Germany

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Media

Not all interruptions are bad: how surprise breaks can unleash creativity at work (theconversation.com)

Podcast-Folge 93. Technik für die Menschen (2): Wie ein Start-up wachsen kann – und dabei innovativ bleibt – Business & People – Das Wirtschaftsmagazin aus den Metropolregionen Hamburg, Bremen und Bremerhaven (business-people-magazin.de)

Jetzt wird geforscht! – Business & People – Das Wirtschaftsmagazin aus den Metropolregionen Hamburg, Bremen und Bremerhaven (business-people-magazin.de)

Will AI ever rival human creativity? (fastcompany.com)

From the pyramids to Apollo 11 – can AI ever rival human creativity? (theconversation.com)

Meet the cobots: the robots who will be your colleagues not your replacements (theconversation.com)

Most innovation originates from customers, not companies (theconversation.com)

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