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NameProf. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, born in 1960, married, two adult children, is since March 2023 the new holder of the professorship for Innovation and Technology Management at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics and has been appointed as Director of the new Excellence Center for Excellence for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship (TUD|excite) at TUD Dresden University of Technology. After training as a banker at Dresdner Bank AG in Cologne and Frankfurt and studying economics and business administration at the Universities of Münster and Bonn, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for SME Research in Bonn and received his doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Bonn in 1991 on the subject of chaos and corporate crisis. This was followed in 1994 and 1997 by appointments to professorships, initially at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration NRW in Düsseldorf and at the University of Siegen. In 2003, the Faculty of Economics at the University of Siegen recognized his research achievements as equivalent to a habilitation. In 2011, Pinkwart was a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C. (USA) and in the same year he took over as Dean of the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management in Leipzig. At the same time, he was appointed to the Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the same university business school. He held both positions until June 2017. On January 1, 2023, he was appointed to the W3 Chair of Digital Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Siegen. Andreas Pinkwart served at government level as Minister of Science (2005-2010), Minister of Innovation (2005-2010 and 2017-2022), Minister of Economic Affairs, Digital and Energy (2017-2022) and from 2005 to 2010 as Deputy Minister-President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
He is responsible for the first Freedom of Higher Education Act in Germany and has many years of experience of involvement in scientific institutions, such as the German Rectors' Conference, the DAAD, the German Council of Science and Humanities, the Conference of Education Ministers and the Joint Science Conference, and in committees of non-university research institutions, such as currently as a trustee of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Leipzig and Chairman of the Data Space Culture and Creative Industries Advisory Board of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He was a member of the board of the Association of University Professors of Business Administration (VHB) and a member of the executive committee of the Association for the Promotion of Start-up Research (FGF) in Germany. He was also an elected representative in the German Bundestag (2002-2005), a member of the Bundesrat (2005-2010 and 2017-2022) and the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament (2010 and 2022). Andreas Pinkwart was state chairman (2002-2010) and deputy federal chairman of the FDP (2003-2011). He has a wide range of experience in supervisory bodies of companies and foundations, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors of NRW-Bank, as a member of the Supervisory Board of Evotec AG, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the RAG Foundation and currently as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bertelsmann Foundation. He has received the German Elite SME Award, the German Startup Award from the Bundesverband Deutscher Startups e.V. and the Innovation in Academia Award for Science and Business from the British University of Kent, among others.