Professional development
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Growitsch joined the leadership of the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy (IMW) in Leipzig in May 2021. As institute director, the habilitated economist brings his experience and networks to the market-oriented refinement of the institute’s portfolio and establishes the new research area of “Technology Economics and Management.” Prior to this role, he was the Director of “Industrial Solutions” in the board department of “Technology Marketing and Business Models” at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Munich. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Deputy Institute Director at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (IMWS) in Halle (Saale) and during that time, he led the Center for Economics of Materials (CEM), which he transferred to Fraunhofer IMW at the beginning of 2020, now serving as an external branch of the Fraunhofer IMW in Saxony-Anhalt.
He has been teaching economics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2017 and studied business administration, as well as economics and social sciences in Hamburg and Lüneburg. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Growitsch earned his doctorate at the University of Lüneburg and the University of Cambridge. He obtained his habilitation at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2010 and, during his time as the Director of Applied Research at the Institute of Energy Economics (EWI), he transferred his habilitation to the University of Cologne in 2012. Before joining the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Christian Growitsch was director and spokesman for the management board of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). He is a member of the board of directors of the Fraunhofer Research Association for Innovation Research, a member of the Innovation Advisory Council of the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), a member of the advisory board of the Foundation for Work and Environment of the IGBCE, a research fellow of the Energy Policy Group at the University of Cambridge, and an elected member of the “Regulation” working group of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft. Christian Growitsch serves as a member of the supervisory board of a Hamburg-based circular economy startup.
Expertise
- Economics of Technology
- Industrial Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Energy Economics