Knut Blind

Knut Blind (born 1965) is a German economist. He is active in the fields of innovation economics focusing on regulation and standardization.

Career

Knut Blind studied economics, political science and psychology at the University of Freiburg in Germany and Brock University in Canada. He worked as a research assistant in the department of public finance at the University of Freiburg, where he was awarded his doctorate. Blind was promoted to professor at the University of Kassel, Germany.[1] Since 2006, he has worked as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Chair for Innovation Economics. Between 2008 and 2016 he has also been awarded the Endowed Chair in Standardisation at the Rotterdam School of Management by the Erasmus University Rotterdam.[1] Blind founded the new research group, Public Innovation, at the Fraunhofer Institute of Open Communication Systems in April 2010. Between 2010 and 2019 Knut Blind moved to the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communications Systems FOKUS in Berlin. Since October 2019 Knut Blind is Head of the Business Unit Regulation and Innovation at the Fraunhofer Institute for System and Innovations Research ISI in Karlsruhe.[1]

In 2012, he founded the German Standardization Panel with the German Society for the Promotion of Research on Standardization e.V. (FNS) and the Berlin Innovations Panel.[2][3] Both panels can already rely on the results of seven annual surveys.

Publications

Blind has published his work in several high-ranking international journals, including Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Technology Transfer, Telecommunications Policy and Journal of Productivity Analysis.[4] For his lifetime achievement, he has been credited as one of the leading German economists and has been listed in the Handelsblatt-Management-Ranking since 2009, which was adopted by Wirtschaftswoche in 2018.[5][6][7][8] Furthermore, in 2013, he was listed as one of the most influential German economist by the F.A.Z. Economic Rating.[9] In January 2017, Makronom lists Blind on position 78 of the most influential German-speaking economists on Twitter.[10] Blind was awarded with the F.A. v. Hayek-Prize by the Department of Economics at the University of Freiburg for his dissertation.[1]

Honors and awards
  • 2017: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)[11]
  • 2016: ISPIM Knut Holt Best Paper Award for "To Standardize or to Patent? Development of a Decision Making Tool and Recommendations for Young Companies" co-authored with Nizar Abdelkafi, Sergiy Makhotin, Marina Thuns and Anna Pohle from Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy[12]
  • 2015: Second best paper award for the paper "Regulation and Standardization of Data Protection in Cloud Computing" coauthored by Martin Löhe (Technical University Berlin, Germany) at the ITU Kaleidoscope 2015 Conference "Trust in the Information Society"[13]
  • 2013: WISU Prof-Homepage of the month October 2013
  • 2012: IEC-IEEE 2nd Prize awarded for the paper "The benefits of standards and standardization in the German electric and electronic industry" together with Dr. Axel Mangelsdorf[14]

References
  1. "FG Innovationsökonomie: Prof. Dr. rer. pol". www.inno.tu-berlin.de.
  2. "ZEW-Pressemitteilung: Innovationsbericht Berlin 2013 – Berliner Wirtschaft sehr innovationsorientiert". zew.de.
  3. "Innovationsstudie: Warum Start-ups spezielle Nachbarn brauchen – WiWo Gründer", WiWo Gründer (in German), 2017-01-17, retrieved 2017-01-18
  4. "FG Innovationsökonomie: Papers". www.inno.tu-berlin.de.
  5. "Handelsblatt Ranking Betriebswirtschaftslehre 2009 – Handelsblatt Online". tool.handelsblatt.com.
  6. "Handelsblatt-Ranking Betriebswirtschaftslehre 2012 – Handelsblatt Online". tool.handelsblatt.com.
  7. "Handelsblatt BWL-Ranking 2014 – Lebenswerk – Handelsblatt Online". tool.handelsblatt.com.
  8. "Forschungsmonitoring". www.forschungsmonitoring.org. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
  9. http://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/medieninformationen/2013/oktober_2013/medieninformation_nr_2122013/.
  10. "Twitter-Ranking – Makronom", Makronom (in German), retrieved 2017-01-26
  11. acatech. "News Detail". Archived from the original on 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  12. "ISPIM Awards", ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management (in German), archived from the original on 2016-11-25, retrieved 2016-11-28
  13. "Trust in the Information Society". ITU (in German). Retrieved 2016-11-28.
  14. "IEEE-SA – IEC-IEEE Challenge: First Prize Awarded to University of Colorado for Academic Publication on Cloud Computing Standardization". Standards.IEEE.org (in German). Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
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