Prof. Dr. Jörn Hendrich Block

Research interests

  • Innovation and technology management, management of intellectual property
  • Sustainability management and decarbonisation
  • (Social) entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education
  • Start-up and innovation financing
  • Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
  • Mittelstand, family firms, and hidden champions

Short Curriculum Vitae

2024–Head, Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Technologie- und IP-Management
2023–Guest Professor, Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO), Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University
2019–Guest Professor, Wittener Institut für Familienunternehmen, Universität Witten/Herdecke
2016–Head, Forschungszentrum Mittelstand, Universität Trier
2020–2024(Vice-) Division Chair of Division "Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship" (TIE) of German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB)
2015–2022(Vice-) President, FGF-Forschungsnetzwerk Entrepreneurship, Innovation und Mittelstand
2012–Professor, Professur für Unternehmensführung (W3), Universität Trier
2011–2022Guest Professor, Erasmus School of Economics and Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus University Rotterdam
2011Professor of Technology Management (W2), TU München
2011–2012PostDoc, Dr. Theo Schöller-Chair for Technology and Innovation Management, TU München
2009–2011PostDoc, Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2005–2009Academic employee and doctoral student, Dr. Theo Schöller-Chair for Technology and Innovation Management, TU München
1999–2005Study of Business Administration, HU Berlin and Université Libre de Bruxelles

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