Professors/Supervisors

Dr. Hans Georg Gemünden is the Technology and Innovation Management Chair at Berlin University of Technology. Prof. Dr. rer. oec. habil., Dr. h. c. rer. oec. et soc., he holds a full-tenured professorship at Berlin University of Technology, where he chairs Technology and Innovation Management. From 1988 to 2000, he served as Director of the Institute for Applied Management Science and Corporate Strategy at the University of Karlsruhe, and as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration from 1990 to 1992.
He obtained his “Diplomkaufmann” (equivalent to an MBA) and his Dr. rer. oec. from the University of Saarbrücken, and completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel. On May 9, 2014, Hans Georg Gemünden received an honorary doctorate (Dr. rerum oeconomicarum et socialum) from the University of Kiel. He was Vice Dean of the Faculty for Management and Economics at Berlin University of Technology from 2003 to 2007, and from 2004 to 2007, he oversaw the Industrial Engineering Program and introduced five new Bachelor’s and nine new Master’s programs. The Industrial Engineering Program is the largest teaching program at TU Berlin, involving six of its seven faculties. Since 2013, he has been a director of the enlarged Academic Senate of TU Berlin.
Gemünden studied business administration and psychology at Saarland University (Saarbrücken) from 1970 to 1973. He worked there from 1973 to 1979 as a research assistant at the bank chair at Jürgen Hauschildt and did his doctorate in 1979 on transaction marketing. From 1979 to 1982, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair for Organization at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, also at Hauschildt. He habilitated in 1986 on the topic of information behavior and efficiency.
He has published in international journals, including Creativity and Innovation Management, the Journal for Controlling & Management, Schmalenbach’s Journal for Business Research, the Journal Leadership Organization, and the International Journal of Project Management. In the Handelsblatt business graduates ranking in 2009, the research output of 2100 economists in Germany and Austria analyzed German-speaking Switzerland in terms of the quality of publications since 2005, and it reached number 63.