Name
Lettl
First Name
Christopher
Research Institution
Professor Christopher Lettl is Co-Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research areas are user innovation, new organizational forms for innovation, multi-institutional development collaborations, and more generally entrepreneurship, innovation management, organizational design and strategy. The results of his research have been presented on international conferences and published in academic journals like Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, R&D Management, Schmalenbach Business Review. He has been serving as academic advisor for the G8-G5 Heiligendamm Process on Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights, for the UK Minister of Science and Innovation, and for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Resort: Invest in Denmark). He consulted numerous companies in their entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives.
Area of expertise
User innovation, lead user research, user communities, entrepreneurship, new organizational forms for innovation, multi-institutional development collaborations
Students going for a doctors degree
NEWS!
“I have 5 PhD positions to fill here in Vienna – I am right now in the process of recruiting and therefore unable to give specific names /topics.”
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Relevant projects
• The social network position of lead users
• The virtual fingerprint of impactful user designers: An empirical investigation in LEGO user communities
• Web 2.0 based entrepreneurship