Dr. Mathias Beck

Dr.  Mathias Beck

Dr. Mathias Beck

Lecturer at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics

ETH Zürich

KOF FB Innovationsökonomik

LEE F 113

Leonhardstrasse 21

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

Informations supplémentaires

Domaine de recherche

Empirical Innovation Economics; Strategic Innovation Management; Innovation Policy; Digital transformation; Sustainability; Knowledge and Technology Transfer.

Mathias has joined the KOF Swiss Economic Institute in 2017. Among other projects he currently leads the project about "Digital transformation: how it changes organizations, performance, and markets" as the Principal Investigator for the National Research Programme on Digital Transformation (NRP 77). He received a PhD in Management and Economics from University of Zurich, and a Master of Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. From his educational background, he studied Industrial Engineering and Management at the Karlsuhe Institute of Technology and at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. Before joining the innovation economics research division at KOF Swiss Economic Institute, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Entrepreneurship (Prof. Ulrich Kaiser), Technology and Innovation Management (Prof. Anja Schulze) and Performance Management (Prof. Andrea Schenker-Wicki) at the University of Zurich. His research mainly focuses on empirical studies about firms' challenges in a knowledge-based economy and includes topics such as digitalization, Knowledge and technology transfer, R&D alliances, collaborative innovation, sustainability and R&D funding. In addition to academic research, he has been involved in scientific policy advice for the Swiss and Danish governments in various projects on matters of innovation policy, and to several companies on matters of innovation strategy.

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Honneurs

Année Distinction
2023 Best Reviewer Award 2023 Industry and Innovation
2022 Best Paper Award Nomination and “honorably mentioned” RandD Management Conference Trento 2022
2022 Best Paper Award RandD Management Conference Trento 2022
2020 Best Paper Prize Nomination; Finalist SMS Corporate Strategy IG Best Paper Award Strategic Management Society SMS
2019 Finalist Kaja Rangus Best Emerging Scholar Paper Award from the University of California at Berkeley, 6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

Plus d'informations

  • Ph.D. in Management & Economics, University of Zurich (Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics)
  • Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, Management & Economics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Department of Economics and Management)
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