We have been able to secure university professors as well as nationally and internationally active experts from the respective fields as lecturers, who will pass on their first-hand knowledge. The lecturers mentioned below represent an excerpt from the faculty. We reserve the right to make changes.

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[Translate to English:] Foto Doris Agneter

Doris Agneter has been CEO at 'N.vest Unternehmensfinanzierungen des Landes NÖ GmbH' for 15 years. She received her doctorate in technical sciences in 1990 and previously graduated from the TU Wien with a degree in engineering. Doris Agneter is also CEO of Tecnet Equity and NÖBEG and Advisory Board of EIT Manufacturing. In 2018, she won the Female Investor Award as Fund Manager of the Year.

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[Translate to English:] Prof.Dr. Jörg Freiling

Jörg Freiling is Full Professor at the University of Bremen, Faculty for Business Studies and Economics, LEMEX Chair in Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He graduated in Business & Economics at Bochum University and holds a PhD in Business & Economics as well as a second doctorate (habilitation) from Bochum University. His research focuses transnational entrepreneurship, immigrant entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial support systems, competence-based management, and business model innovations.

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Heimo Hammer

Heimo Hammer is founder and managing director of kraftwerk, an agency for communication and co-founder of Next One GmbH.
Previously, he worked in marketing at Siemens, among others, and maintains numerous speaking engagements at the WU Vienna, the WIFI Institute and the Fast Forward Forum, among others. From 2018 to 2020, he was a board member of the Content Marketing Forum.

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[Translate to English:] Dr. Renate Kratochvil

Renate Kratochvil is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at BI Norwegian Business School, in Oslo. She conducts research on strategy formulation, strategic change and received her PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from WU Vienna in 2018. Renate Kratochvil taught at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and previously at WU Vienna from 2014-2017. She is the winner of numerous awards, such as the Best PhD Proposal 2016 award from the European International Business Academy.

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Stefan Kreppel has been Head of Open Innovation at P21st at Palfinger AG since 2018. He is a lecturer at TU Vienna and TU Graz (Innovation, Design Thinking, Business Model, Finance), start-up mentor and coach, speaker, inventor in innovation fields. In 2014, he was nominated as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

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[Translate to English:] Foto Stefan Piëch

Dr. Stefan Piëch is CEO and main shareholder of the listed media company Your Family Entertainment AG. After studying film and media studies, business administration and Japanese studies in Scotland and California, he earned his doctorate at the University of Klagenfurt. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed training courses in entrepreneurship, digital transformation and innovation leadership. Dr. Piëch is a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG Austria, SEAT S.A. and TTTech Computertechnik AG, Vienna.

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[Translate to English:] Foto Philipp Smole

Philipp Smole has been Vice President Corporate Incubator P21st at Palfinger AG since 2018.
He studied Technical Physics at the TU Wien and consequently received his PhD in Solid State Physics in 2004. Prior to his position at Palfinger AG, he worked as Technical Lead New Value Spaces at Philips. Philipp Smole holds numerous patents and has various lecturing activities in connection with his fields of activity.

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[Translate to English:] Porträt Raluca Ionescu

Raluca Ionescu PhD is a lawyer and expert negotiator. She has 22 years of experience working at and with multinational banks during which she led numerous negotiations with international business partners from different industries and various cultures.

  

[Translate to English:] Porträt Dragos-Cristian Vasilescu

IM Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dragos-Cristian Vasilescu is a consultant, trainer, lecturer and program coordinator in the fields of negotiation, management and innovation. He is the founder of Vasilescu.pro Solutions, a consulting company focused on increasing the efficiency of organizations by reducing conflicts and enabling them to reach better and more sustainable agreements. For more than 10 years he has been teaching at the Vienna University of Technology, the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the FH Wien of WKW and several other universities.

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The above faculty represent a selection of our lecturers.