Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer

Areas of Expertise

• Transformation from product manufacturers to service providers
• Digital business models for capital goods manufacturers
• Service innovation
• Business model innovation in developing countries
• International and strategic management

Professional Development

Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer has been working at Fraunhofer IMW since March, 2018. First a student of business administration at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Gebauer received his doctorate from the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen between in 2004.

Subsequently, Prof. Dr. Gebauer was awarded a professorship at the University of St. Gallen with a research focus on the transformation from producer to manufacturing service provider and was appointed as a private lecturer there in 2010. Since 2011, he has lead a research group from the ETH Network in Zurich and since 2016, has been a visiting professor for international and strategic management at the University of Linköping in Sweden.

In numerous industrial companies Prof. Dr. Gebauer gained the experience, which he puts to use while addressing the topic of innovation in developing countries. In this capacity, he is working on various projects, specifically those dealing with access to clean drinking water, improved sanitation and reliable energy supplies.

2019

• Gebauer, H. (2019). Kick-off of the project “Data Mining and Value Creation“. Fraunhofer IMW, Leipzig. 5.11.2019.
• Gebauer, H. (2019). Zukunft der Wertschöpfung in Sachsen. Talk at Studium universale. Leipzig University. 30.10.2019.
• Gebauer, H. (2019). Wie wird KI zur Kernkompetenz in meinem Unternehmen mit/trotz Ethik? Innovation Table KI & Ethik. Forum für digitale Ethik, Deutsche Telekom AG, Berlin. 17.10.2019.
• Gebauer, H. (2019). Impuls: Zukunft der (digitalen) Wertschöpfung in Sachsen. Symposium “Digitale Transformation und Innovation“. SMWA, SMWK, Dresden. 7.10.2019.
• Gebauer, H. (2019). Meeting of the adversory board. Sächsischer Beirat für Digitale Wertschöpfung, Leipzig. 16.5.2019.