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Who owns the Broccoli? Colloqium on Intellectual Property Rights (Part Three)
Knut Blind (born 1965) is a German economist. He is active in the fields of innovation economics focusing on regulation and standardization.
Contents
- Who owns the Broccoli Colloqium on Intellectual Property Rights Part Three
- Career
- Publications
- Honors Awards
- References
Career
Knut Blind studied economics, political science and psychology at the University of Freiburg in Germany and Brock University in Canada. He worked as a research assistant in the department of public finance at the University of Freiburg, where he was awarded his doctorate. Blind was promoted to professor at the University of Kassel, Germany. Since 2006, he has worked as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Chair for Innovation Economics. Between 2008 and 2016 he has also been awarded the Endowed Chair in Standardisation at the Rotterdam School of Management by the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Blind founded the new research group, Public Innovation, at the Fraunhofer Institute of Open Communication Systems in April 2010. Knut Blind moved from the Fraunhofer Institute for System and Innovations Research ISI in Karlsruhe to the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communications Systems FOKUS in Berlin in 2010.
In 2012, he founded the German Standardization Panel with the German Society for the Promotion of Research on Standardization e.V. (FNS) and the Berlin Innovations Panel. The latter can already rely on the results of five annual surveys.
Publications
Blind has published his work in several high-ranking international journals, including Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Technology Transfer, Telecommunications Policy and Journal of Productivity Analysis. For his lifetime achievement, he has been credited as one of the leading German economists and has been listed in the Handelsblatt-Management-Ranking since 2009. Furthermore, in 2013, he was listed as one of the most influential German economist by the F.A.Z. Economic Rating. In January 2017, Makronom lists Blind on position 78 of the most influential German-speaking economists on Twitter. Blind was awarded with the F.A. v. Hayek-Prize by the Department of Economics at the University of Freiburg for his dissertation.