Professor for Organisation, Human Resource Management and General Management

Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

TRACK 1

Technologically Based Innovation
in Services

Prof. Christiane Hipp became vice-dean of the faculty in 2007 and full professor for Organisation, Human Resource Management and General Management at the Technical University Cottbus in 2005. She received her diploma in industrial engineering in 1994 and her Ph.D. in economics in 1999. From 1995 until 1999 Christiane Hipp was research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research and from 1999 until 2005 she has been working as a senior technology manager for several companies (e.g., Vodafone) while she has continued her research at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg in the area of innovation management. There she received her "Habilitation" in 2005. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Manchester's Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition. Her areas of interest include demographical change, service innovation, innovation strategies, intellectual property and innovation processes.

Prof. John R. Bryson has held research and teaching posts at the Universities of St Andrews, Cambridge, Wales and most recently at the University of Birmingham (UK) where he is Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, Head of the Society, Economy and Environment research group and Director of the University’s Resilience and Urban Living Initiative. In 2009 he was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests lie in studies of services, innovation, expertise-based competitiveness, knowledge intensive business services, regional economies and service-enabled manufacturing. He has published eight books and over 125 journal articles, research reports, and books chapters. His books include: Service Worlds: People, Organisations and technologies (Routledge, 2004) and The Handbook of Service Industries (Edward Elgar, 2007) and Industrial Design, Competition and Globalization (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). He is the founding editor of the book series on Services, Economy and Innovation published by Edward Elgar and is also European Founding Editor of Regional Science Policy and Practice. He has recently been appointed editor designate of The Service Industries Journal. He is also Vice-President of RESER, the leading international research association on services and expertise-driven economies.