The collaboration with our Academic Advisory Board is crucial to the success of our firm. It allows us to both continuously integrate front-end insights from innovation research into our work, and jointly develop new approaches together with researchers from leading European universities and business schools.

All winovation Academic Advisory Board members are top experts in the field of Open Innovation. They research it from very different angles and thus contribute to our broad competence in open innovation.

Friends & Partners

Our international network of experts frequently contribute fresh perspectives to our work.

Helena Acheson
Germany

Head of Unit at MFG Baden-Württemberg, Public Innovation Agency for ICT and Media

innovation.mfg.de

Pia Areblad
Sweden

Enterprise Manager at Ale kommun

ale.se

Hasan Bakhshi
UK

Director, Creative Economy in Policy & Research at NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)

nesta.org.uk

Wolfie Christl
Austria

Tactical Media Engineer at Data Dealer and Director of Metaflimmer

datadealer.com

Michaela Gutmann
Austria

Managing Director at the Austrian Creative Industries Platform creativ wirtschaft austria

creativwirtschaft.at

Akiko Imai
Japan

Executive Director, Director for Public Communication and Research Fellow, Tokyo Foundation

tokyofoundation.org/en/

Stefan Klestil
Austria

International Professional in Payments and FinTech; Member of the Board of Directors at Holvi

about.holvi.com

Christopher Lindinger
Austria

Director of Research and Innovation at Ars Electronica Futurelab

aec.at/futurelab/de/

Allan Mayo
UK

Head of Services Policy Unit at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, British Government Administration

gov.uk

Martin Nägele
Kyrgyzstan

Country Officer at IFC – International Finance Corporation

ifc.org

April Rinne
USA

Sharing Economy: Cities, Policy, Travel & Tourism, Future of Work

aprilrinne.com

Max Scheichenost
Singapore

Serial Entrepreneur, Founder & MD Alps Ventures | Director Marketing FALCON Agency

alpsventure.com

Carsten Schierenbeck
Belgium

Policy Officer at European Creative Industries Alliance

eciaplatform.eu

Cynthia Smith
US

Curator of Socially Responsible Design at Smithsonian Institution (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum)

cooperhewitt.org

Amrita and Samir Somaiya
India

Trustees of K.J.Somaiya Trust, Founder of Kitab Khana, CEO of Somaiya Group

somaiya.edu

Jorge Soto
USA

Co-founder & CTO at Miroculus, San Francisco Bay Area

miroculus.com

Rasmus W. Tscherning
Denmark

Chairman of the ECIA Policy Learning Platform and Managing Director at the Center for Cultural and Experience Economy

cko.dk/en

Inese Voika
Latvia

Founding partner and leadership consultant at Y-Motions International

y-motions.com

Barbara Wais
Austria

Founder of Drahtzieher Design & Kommunikation

drahtzieher.at

Werner Wutscher
Austria

Founder of New Venture Scouting (NVS), Business Angel, representative of Austrian Angel Investors Association and Austrian Startups

www.nvs.co.at