Max Von Zedtwitz

Publications on Research Platform Alexandria

Innovation

China

Incubation

Global R&D

Emerging Market Innovation

Academic:

• 2019: Professor of Innovation and International Business (WSR), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• 2018: Professor of Innovation, Southern Denmark University, Denmark (part-time)
• 2015: Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania (initially full-time, later part-time)
• 2012: Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
• 2009: Visiting Professor of Strategy, Peking University, China
• 2003: Associate Professor of Innovation Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• 2000: Professor of Technology Management, IMD, Switzerland
• 1998: Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, USA

Industry & Consulting:

• 2008: Vice President, PRTM Management Consultants, Shanghai
• 2005: Managing Director, AsiaCompete Int'l Ltd, Hong Kong
• 1993: Research Scientist, Advanced Telecommunications Research Labs, NTT, Japan
• 1992: System Developer, Siemens Stromberg Carlson, Florida

Current projects with PhD students and other academic collaborators:

• Global Value Chains in NPD
• Reverse innovation in Africa
• Frugal innovation in and from Europe
• Geography of Nobel Prize discoveries
• Global R&D in multinational enterprises
• Best practices in corporate incubation
• China's competitive innovation advantages
• AI in process and product NPD
• R&D FDI and country corruption
• Technonationalism and global innovation
• Organization of international R&D in Chinese MNCs
• Journal retractions of management publications
• Twin transitions in the automotive industry

Best Paper in R&D Management, 1998.

Thomas P. Husted Award for Best Paper in Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2015.

KTU Researcher of the year, 2018 & 2022.

Primarily, I am an Area Editor (Associate Editor) for Technovation (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/technovation), a generally considered top-3 TIM (technology & innovation management) journal ranked ABS-3.

I also have been involved in editorial roles with the following journals:

• Global Strategy Journal (editorial board)
• Journal of International Management (editorial board)
• R&D Management (editorial advisory board)
• Creativity and Innovation Management (editorial board),
• Technology Analysis & Strategic Management (editorial board)
• International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (associate editor)
• Thunderbird International Business Review (editorial review board)
• American Journal of Business (editorial advisory board)
• Emerald Emerging Market Case Studies Series (editorial advisory board)
• Journal of Chinese Economics and Foreign Trade Studies (editorial advisory board)