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Dietmar Harhoff is professor of Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich. He ist the director of the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (INNO-tec) and a co-director of the LMU Entrepreneurship Center. After graduating with a Diploma degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dortmund, Dietmar Harhoff began his professional career as a research engineer in Great Britain and Germany. From 1985 to 1987, he was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard University and graduated with an M.P.A. degree in 1987. He concluded his Ph.D. studies at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1991 with a dissertation on research incentives and voluntary information revelation. Then he joined the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and became the Associate Scientific Director of ZEW in 1995. He concluded his habilitation in Economics in 1996 at the University of Mannheim. In 1998 he joined the Munich School of Management at LMU in his current position. Dietmar Harhoff’s research focuses on issues in innovation and entrepreneurship research, industrial economics, and technology management. He is the Chairman of the Expert Commission on Research and Innovation (www.e-fi.de) which serves as an independent advisory body on innovation policy to the German Federal Government and serves as an advisor to a number of public and private organizations.

Rebecca Ermecke completed the Technology Management program at CDTM herself and received a diploma degree in Business Administration from the Munich School of Management, LMU. During her studies she specialized in innovation management and organizational theory with particular focus on TIME industries.

Rebecca has been an exchange student at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo, Spain and a visiting scholar at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

In the past, she gathered relevant work experience in internships with EADS Military Aircraft, Siemens Corporate Strategies, Solon Management Consulting and Infosys Technologies in Bangalore.

Rebecca is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the LMU Munich, working with Prof. Picot. Her research focuses on strategic implications for telecommunication companies brought about by shifts in network technology. Rebecca joined CDTM in 2008.

Fabian Dany studied Business Administration at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich and the University of Economics Prague. Additionally he graduated in Technology Management at CDTM.

Besides his studies he gathered work experience at companies such as Siemens and Axel Springer Verlag. After his graduation he co-founded a company that is providing innovative information and communication services.

Moreover Fabian holds a Master of Applied Informatics from the TU Munich and is now working on his Ph.D. thesis in computer science at the TU Munich. He joined the CDTM management team in 2009.

After her intensive studies of Mathematics and Physics, Ms. Tarrade entered the Institut National des Télécommunications (INT Management), one of France’s elite “Grande Ecole”, where she earned her “Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures de Gestion” (Master of IT Management). She then completed her MBA from the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, VA, USA (2003) with a concentration in Information Systems and Technology. During her studies, Ms. Tarrade worked for several high-tech and media start-ups in France, Germany and the US. Between 2003 and 2007, Ms. Tarrade was a project manager at a Germany and Switzerland-based start-up specializing in cryptography solutions and IT security consulting for international defense organizations and governmental bodies. Ms. Tarrade joined the LMU Entrepreneurship Center in May 2007 and is in now charge of the Center’s development activities. As a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at the LMU Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (INNO-tec, Prof. Harhoff, Ph.D.), she concentrates her research on the international strategy of venture capital firms.