University of Leipzig
The university of Leipzig was founded in 1409, making it one of the oldest universities in Germany. Now, it consists of 14 faculties with 128 institutes. 35,000 persons research, teach and study at UL. The university offers 136 study programs, and 5,686 doctoral candidates are registered. The university focuses its research expertise in Top-Level Research Areas. On its ambitious path to becoming a European top-level university and internationally recognized seat of research and
learning for young scholars the University draws on an extensive range of subject areas in science and humanities. At UL, students can acquire degrees at various levels in almost all fields of academia. Most study programs are taught in German, with the number of English and foreign-language study programs steadily increasing. Furthermore, UL is involved in many mobility programs of students and researchers. The University of Leipzig is the applicant and coordinator of the project. It participates in this project with two departments: (1) Innovation Management and innovation Economics and (2) the Chair of Management Science and Service Management.
Project Manager
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Posselt
Director, Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe - Professor for Innovation, Management and Economics
Fraunhofer MOEZ
Neumarkt 9-19, 04109 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 23 10 39 100
Fax: +49 341 23 10 39 190
thorsten.posselt@moez.fraunhofer.de
Executive Director for Europe
Dr. Anna Trifilova
Project Coordinator; Researcher, Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe; Researcher for Innovation, Management and Economics, University of Leipzig
University of Leipzig
Grimmaische Straße 12, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: + 49 341 231 039 162
Fax: + 49 341 231 093 20 162
anna.trifilova@uni-leipzig.de
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management / Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC)
HHL, founded in 1889, is the oldest business school in Germany and is today considered one of the leading business schools. The excellence of its programs (MSc, MBA, EMBA) has been proven by several rankings. As a state-recognized university with the right to award doctorates and post-doctoral lecture qualifications, HHL aims for the highest quality. HHL was the first private business school in Germany to be accredited by AACSB International, the prestigious accreditation agency for business schools worldwide. The participating department is the Center of Leading Innovation and Cooperation (CLIC) with a long tradition in innovation management teaching and research. This research has been so far supported by many sources of third-party funds such as the federal ministry of education and research in Germany, research foundations, and local industry. In addition, excellence in research and teaching are facilitated by CLIC’s network of local and international partners.
Project Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Ralf Reichwald
Academic Director, Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC)
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC) Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 9851-860
Mobile: +49 171 33 26 535
Fax: +49 341 9851-867
reichwald@hhl.de
Project Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Möslein
Academic Director, Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC)
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC) Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 9851-860
Mobile: +49 151 24 11 27 79
Fax: +49 341 9851-867
kathrin.moeslein@hhl.de
Project Researcher
Dr. Hagen Habicht
Executive Director, Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC)
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC) Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 9851-860
Mobile: +49 151 404 33 100
Fax: +49 341 9851-867
hagen.habicht@hhl.de
Project Researcher
Dr. Vivek K. Velamuri
Schumpeter Junior Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC) Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 9851 753
Mobile: +49 176 20308086
vivek.velamuri@hhl.de
Project Associate
Katja Trescher
Team Assistant, Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC)
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC) Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 9851 860
Fax: +49 341 9851 867
katja.trescher@hhl.de
Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe
The Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe (MOEZ) is the strategic partner of industry, research, and politics for networking and collaborations with policy makers in Central and Eastern European growth markets. As experts for innovation and network management, strategy development and research marketing, MOEZ develops research-based, holistic solutions – from potential analysis to the conception and realization of customized business models all the way
to knowledge and technology transfer. MOEZ carries out continual analysis of markets and innovation systems worldwide, in particular Central and Eastern Europe, thus creating a reliable basis of information concerning many economic regions.
Project Manager
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Posselt
Director, Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe - Professor for Innovation, Management and Economics
Fraunhofer MOEZ
Neumarkt 9-19, 04109 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 23 10 39 100
Fax: +49 341 23 10 39 190
thorsten.posselt@moez.fraunhofer.de
Project Researcher
Dr. Nizar Abdelkafi
Senior Researcher, Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Fraunhofer MOEZ
Neumarkt 9-19, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 23 10 39 143
Mobile Phone: +49 157 75 33 97 82
Fax: +49 341 23 10 39 20 143
nizar.abdelkafi@moez.fraunhofer.de
Project Researcher
Romy Hilbig
Research Fellow Business Models and Services
Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Neumarkt 9-19, 04109 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 231039-158
Fax: +49 341 23103920-158
romy.hilbig@moez.fraunhofer.de
Project Assistant
Mandy Bollinger
Scientific Assistant to the Project Coordinator
Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Neumarkt 9-19, 04109 Leipzig
Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
The University of Applied Sciences of Weihenstephan-Triesdorf currently consists of 7 scientific departments, including biotechnology, agriculture, forestry and horticulture. Several professors and scientific researchers are dealing with aspects of biogenic renewable resources from an agricultural, technological, processing, economic and social point of view. In this context research is carried out concerning the material and energetic use of renewable resources. Since 2001, HSWT is active in the Straubing Centre of Science. The Chair of Marketing and Management of Biogenic Resources
is located in this Centre. Among others the Chair focuses on the “role of new technologies (e.g. biotechnology, renewable resources)” as well as on “systems of innovation and management of innovations”. For example: The projects “Consumer acceptance of functional bakery products” and “Traditional European Union Food” had a look on the innovations on the food sector.
Project Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Klaus Menrad
Head of the Chair of Marketing and Management of Biogenic Resources
Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, Chair of Marketing and Management of Biogenic Resources
Schulgasse 16, 94315 Straubing
Phone: +49 94 21 – 18 72 00
Fax: +49 94 21 – 18 72 11
k.menrad@wz-straubing.de
Project Researcher
Dr. Thomas Decker
Research Associate of the Chair of Marketing and Management of Biogenic Resources
Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, Chair of Marketing and Management of Biogenic Resources
Schulgasse 16, 94315 Straubing
Phone: +49 94 21 – 18 71 14
Phone: +49 94 21 – 18 71 14
t.decker@wz-straubing.de
University of Exeter
Business has been one of the cornerstones of the University of Exeter since it was founded. 1997 saw the School of Business and Economics at the University of Exeter emerge as an international Business School and in 2008 the School was renamed simply the Business School. The school has grown year on year, both in size and stature – building our international reputation in teaching and research, and attracting some of the world’s leading business minds to teach the courses. Today, it offers a wide range of business programs for undergraduate, postgraduate and executive students and clients from all over the world. With students from 82 countries, and staff from 18, UNEXE provides a truly
international business school experience. The courses are informed by some of the very latest thinking in business research. UNEXE provides outstanding facilities and resources in what is said to be one of the UK’s most attractive campus environments.
Academic Director for Europe
Prof. Dr. John Bessant, PhD
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
University of Exeter Business School
Xfi Centre, Rennes Drive, Exeter UK EX4 4ST
Phone: + 44 1392 723 233
Fax: + 44 1392 722 525
j.bessant@exeter.ac.uk
Project Researcher
Dr. Allen T. Alexander
Senior Lecturer in Innovation
University of Exeter Business School
Xfi Centre, Rennes Drive, Exeter UK EX4 4ST
Phone: + 44 7870 237 232
A.T.Alexander@exeter.ac.uk
MINES ParisTech
MPT is a leading actor in French innovation system, due to high level of industrial research contracts, its investments in educating innovation (MSc. and PhDs) and research program on innovation management. Since 1994, the design and innovation team has initiated a novel education program on Innovative Design that has been applied in several French and foreign Engineering Schools and a research program, that has led to some groundbreaking results: C-K theory, by Hatchuel & Weil, which shows that creative design reasoning results from a rigorous but unexpected rationality. In the chair of Design Theory and Methods for innovation of MPT, it supports today a rigorous teaching of creative design, the development of new methods and organizaton in the industry and it is at the basis of an ambitious research program on creative design activities with two main axis: 1. Formal models of design and experimental approaches; 2. The management of Innovative design and collaborative innovation.
Project Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Pascal Le Masson
Professor at MINES ParisTech, Chair of Design Theory and Methods for Innovation
CGS – MINES ParisTech
60 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75272 PARIS Cedex 06
Phone: +33 1 40 51 92 21
lemasson@ensmp.fr
Project Supervisor
Dr. Marine Agogué
Post-doc at MINES ParisTech, Chair of Design Theory and Methods for Innovation
CGS – MINES ParisTech
60 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75272 PARIS Cedex 06
Phone: +33 6 72 77 01 51
marine.agogue@mines-paristech.fr
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis
ENIT is the leading engineering school in Tunisia. It has 5 departments and offers 7 different engineering curricula’s (Civil, Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, Computers, Telecommunications and Hydraulics and environment). Besides 1300 students enrolled in Engineering, ENIT has 1200 post graduate students in different engineering fields (700 enrolled in Master programs and 500 in PhD programs). ENIT runs also continuous and long life courses. The research activity in the
school covers all fields of engineering; it is led by 17 research units and 4 research laboratories.
ENIT has courses in Entrepreneurship, management of technology, management of innovation and lately a workshop aiming to develop creativity skills and methodology has been introduced.
Project Supervisor
Prof. Chiheb Bouden
Marketing & E-business faculty, Industrial Engineering Department
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: + 216 71 874 700
Mobile: + 216 98 270 905
Fax: + 216 71 872 729
chiheb.bouden@enit.rnu.tn
Academic Director for Tunisia
Prof. Ridha Ben Cheikh
Professor at the Industrial Engineering Departement of ENIT
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: + 216 71 874 700 ext. 517
Fax: + 216 71 872 729
ridha.bencheikh@enit.rnu.tn
Executive Director for Tunisia
Anis Allagui
Marketing & E-business faculty, Industrial Engineering Department
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: + 216 71 871 092
Mobile: + 216 98 33 90 50
Fax: + 216 71 872 729
anis.allagui@enit.rnu.tn
Project Researcher
Aida Besbes
Economic & Management Faculty, Industrial Engineering Department
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: + 216 71 874 700
Mobile: + 216 98 670 429
Fax: + 216 71 872 729
aida_besbes@yahoo.fr
Project Researcher
Wyssal Abbassi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing and Management, Coordinator of the Master of Business Setup & Innovation Management
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: +96 560 950 575
wyssal.abbassi@gmail.com
Project Researcher
Haifa Grira, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: + 216 71 874 700
Mobile: + 216 23 135 621
Fax: + 216 71 872 729
Hayfa.Grira@malix.univ-paris1.fr
Project Researcher
Helmi Ben Rejeb, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in industrial engineering
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: + 216 71 874 700 Extension 551
Fax: + 216 71 872 729
Helmi.BenRejeb@enit.rnu.tn
Project Researcher
Wafa Belkahla Hakimi
Assistante
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: + 216 22 551 971 / + 216 58 337 558
wbelkahlahakimi@yahoo.fr
Project Researcher
Dr. Fatma Siala Guermazi
Associate Professor in Economics
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar
BP 37, Le Belvédère 1002 Tunis
Phone: + 216 71 884 757 / + 216 97 447 362
Fatmasialag@gmail.com
École Sup. des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Tunis
ESSEC, management school, is part of the University of Tunis and offers 8 master programs. The school brings together research teams from the fields of business administration and informatics, while pooling the resources of ESSEC and ISG, a higher education institute of management. Doctoral school of the university of Tunis has three laboratories: (1) Laboratory of Operations research, decision & process control, and (2) Laboratory of Business & Economic statistics modeling (3) Laboratory of interdisciplinary research on mutations economies and firms. In addition, there are 8 units of research with focus on marketing, Finance, quantitative analysis & optimization, communication, economics, international management, sustainable development, and innovation. In addition, the school has almost 400 PhD students working on a plethora of topics. ESSEC still does not offer a master program in innovation management and plans to allocate more resources to this field in the future.
Projekt Supervisor
Zeineb Ben Ammar Mamlouk
Professor at University of Tunis – ESSEC
École Sup. des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Tunis
4, rue Abou Zakaria El Hafsy, 1089 Montfleury
Phone: + 216 71 334 190
Fax: + 216 71 333 518
zeinebbenammar@yahoo.fr
Project Researcher
Dr. Olfa Kammoun
Associate Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
École Sup. des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Tunis
4, rue Abou Zakaria El Hafsy, 1089 Montfleury
Phone: + 216 99 414 666
Fax: + 216 71 333 518
olfakammoun@yahoo.fr
Project Researcher
Amène Khalifa
Assistant Master
École Sup. des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Tunis
4, rue Abou Zakaria El Hafsy, 1089 Montfleury
Phone: + 216 28 374 749
Mobile: + 216 97 928 885
Fax: + 216 71 333 518
amen_kh@yahoo.fr
Project Researcher
Abdelhamid Abidi
Assistant Master
École Sup. des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Tunis
4, rue Abou Zakaria El Hafsy, 1089 Montfleury
Phone: + 216 72 232 210
Mobile: + 216 92 692 674
Fax: + 216 72 232 144
abdelhamidabidi@yahoo.fr
Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Carthage
IHEC is a leading management institute in Tunisia; it is the first Tunisian academic institution for management education and business administration studies; it was founded in 1942. The academic degrees of IHEC are very solicited by the local economy. In addition, the institute could establish a large network of companies and partner universities during the years. IHEC offers four master programs focused on research and seven master programs with a professional orientation.
There are in total six departments at the institute: Management, Economics, Finance, Law, Accounting, and Quantitative Methods. One of the principles of IHEC is to continuously develop its study programs according to the economic requirements, while providing a solid academic education. Innovation management is a field that IHEC wants to develop intensively during the next years. Thus, this project complies with the strategic visions of IHEC.
Project Supervisor
Slim Khalbous
Dean of IHEC Carthage; Docteur en sciences de Gestion, Paris Dauphine
Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Carthage
Carthage Présidence-2016 Tunis
Mobile: + 216 24 248 081
Fax: + 216 71 775 944
slim.khalbous@gnet.tn
Project Researcher
Olfa Zeribi
Professeur ès Sciences de Gestion; Docteur en sciences de Gestion, Rennes
Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Carthage
Carthage Présidence-2016 Tunis
Mobile: + 216 22 582 067
Fax: + 216 71 775 944
zeribi.olfa@gmail.com
Project Researcher
Houda Ghozzi
Maître assistante IHEC Carthage; Docteur en sciences de Gestion, Paris Dauphine
Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Carthage
Carthage Présidence-2016 Tunis
Mobile: + 216 20 554 462
Fax: + 216 71 775 944
houdaghozzi@yahoo.fr
Project Researcher
Mohja Kammoun
Assistante, Département gestion, IHEC Carthage
Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Carthage
Carthage Présidence-2016 Tunis
Mobile: + 216 27 830 308
K_mohja@yahoo.fr
Ministry of Education- l’Agence Nationale de Promotion de la Recherche scientifique
ANPRI is a governmental agency under the authority of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. It aims to bring research the closest to the technological needs of industry and to support the competitiveness of the economy by installing a sustainable innovation process. Promoting research means supporting world class qualified research and introducing partnership-based research leading to needs-driven research. Promoting Innovation means helping companies to install built-in innovation process capabilities and improving permeability between academia and professional worlds by enabling valorization and transfer process and encouraging mobility at both sides. ANPRI has been given a crucial role to interface the key institutional players giving body to the growing National Innovation System. The major key players are working mainly under, on one hand, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and, on the other hand, Ministry of Industry and Technology.
Project Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Bahri Rezig
General Director of National Agency for Research Promotion; National Project Manager of PASRI
Site : 50 AV. Mohamed V. – 1002 Tunis, Tunisia
PO Box : B.P N° 177 Tunis Belvédère 1002
Phone: + 216 71 834 855
Mobile: + 216 97 673 953
Fax: + 216 71 834 855
dg.anpr@anpr.rnu.tn
Project Mananger
Memya Cherif
National Agency for Research Promotion
Site : 50 AV. Mohamed V. – 1002 Tunis, Tunisia | PO Box : B.P N° 177 Tunis Belvédère 1002
Phone: + 216 71 834 855
Mobile: + 216 97 659 934
Fax: + 216 71 834 855
memya.cherif@anpr.rnu.tn
Centre Internernational des Technologies de l’environnement de Tunis
Since its creation in June 1996, CITET, a public institution and part of the Ministry of Environment and sustainable development, has been committed to develop Tunisian qualifications for a better mastery of environmental technologies in order to ensure a sustainable development in Tunisia and in the Arab and Mediterranean region. It plays a fundamental role in environmental upgrading of enterprises to fulfill national and international standards and enhance their competitiveness. Among others, CITE’s core missions are providing technical assistance to enterprises in setting up environmental management systems and streamlining, transfer, and innovation of eco-technologies and promotion of clean technologies.
Project Supervisor
Amel Jrad
Directeur General, Centre International des Technologies de l’environnement de Tunis
Centre Internernational des Technologies de l’environnement de Tunis
Boulvard Yasser Arafat, 1080, charguia, Tunis, Tunisie
Phone: + 216 71 206 632
Fax: + 216 71 206 655
dg@citet.nat.tn
Project Mananger
Fadhel Mhiri
Directeur, Transfert et innovation technologique au Centre International des Technologies de l’environnement de Tunis
Centre Internernational des Technologies de l’environnement de Tunis
Boulvard Yasser Arafat, 1080, charguia, Tunis, Tunisie
Phone: + 216 71 206 482
Fax : +216 71 206 642
recherche@citet.nat.tn
