Jan Maier
Description:
Educational Background
- M.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Languages
- German, Swedish, English, French
Work Experience
- CEO and co-founder of Avedas AG.
- 12 years of consulting experience in the public and private sector throughout Europe, with a focus on innovation and competence management.
- Former managing partner of inno AG and CEO of innoveas AG.
- Worked as Advisor to the Swedish Government and the City of Stockholm in their efforts to consolidate Sweden’s and Stockholm’s leading position within the four industry branches: Telecommunications, IT, Media and Entertainment (TIME).
Areas of Expertise
- Strategy and concept development for universities, networks and clusters regarding the management of competences and research information.
- Conception and implementation of tools for Knowledge and Competence Management in large-scale research institutes, and national and international non-profit associations.
- Development of regional innovation strategies based on competence mappings, cluster analyses and foresight processes.
- Implementation of advanced information management solutions for universities and other knowledge intensive organisations.
- Evaluation and design of soft infrastructures and support services with the purpose to increase innovation oriented collaboration on regional, national and European levels.
- Analysis and consulting to support organisational innovation management in order to increase the use and commercialisation of competences and research results.
- Management of complex, large-scale and international projects.
- Moderation of seminars and workshops.
- Elaboration of proposals for third party funding.
Research projects:
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