Topic: Digitalization Meets Innovation Management: Drivers and Effects of Digital Innovation Management Systems in New Product Development. Professor. Dr. Stefan Hüsig outlines some more recent thoughts and findings on digital innovation management, especially how innovation management software is influencing new product development performance and what factors drive innovation management software adoption or usage.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hüsig
Professor at Technische Universität Chemnitz
Professor. Dr. Stefan Hüsig is holder of the chair for Innovation Research and Technology Management at the Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany. Before he had several positions in academia such as Interim Professor at the Chair of Innovation Research and Sustainable Resource Management at the TU Chemnitz, as an Associate Professor at the Department of Innovation and Technology Management at the University of Regensburg, Germany or as Deputy Director and founder of a new Institute for Innovation and Technology Management at the University of Economics in Prague (Czech Republic).
Moreover, he had visiting positions at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado (USA), Aston Business School, Aston University in Birmingham (UK), the Clermont Graduate School of Management, Clermont-Ferrand (France) and the Fudan University in Shanghai (China). His teaching portfolio includes EMBA and in-house courses plus teaching experiences in eight countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. In addition to his academic activities Professor. Dr. Hüsig was active in research and consulting projects in collaboration with Mannesmann, Vodafone, Continental or the Fraunhofer Institute.
He holds a Habilitation in Business Administration, a PhD in Innovation Management and a Diploma in Business Administration from University of Regensburg.
Topic: “Our vision for sustainable business growth in an uncertain world.”
Mr Kevin Ramkaloan
CEO of Business Mauritius, the apex organization of the business community on public-private sector dialogue and industrial relations
Kevin is the CEO of Business Mauritius, the apex organization of the business community on public-private sector dialogue and industrial relations. He was the former Director of the MTPA, the national tourism promotion agency of Mauritius and Director of New Business Development at the Board of Investment, the national investment promotion agency.
Kevin has over 20 years of executive experience in Mauritius and internationally, spanning diverse sectors including public policy, business consulting, hospitality, financial services and the ocean economy among others.
Awarded both the State Scholarship of Mauritius and a US Fulbright, he holds post-graduate degrees in economics and policy from Cambridge University, UK and University of Maine, US respectively.