Primary Job Title Full Professor, Director Institute of Technology Management Primary Organization University of St. Gallen
Location Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Oliver Gassmann is professor for technology and innovation management at the University of St.Gallen, one of Europe’s leading business schools. He is managing director of the Institute of Technology Management. Until 2002 he worked for Schindler and led its Corporate Research as VP Technology Management.
He is co-founder of the BMI-Lab which
focusses on business model innovation. His research lead to a revolutionary method of how to design new business models: The Business Model Navigator.
Oliver has published over 300 publications and several books on management of innovation. His book ‘The Business Model Navigator’ by Hanser and Financial Times Publishing has been called as a ‘sensation’ by the leading German newspaper F.A.Z. and became rapidly a bestseller. He is one of the most cited innovation researchers, the most published author in R&D Management. In 2014 he has been awarded as a leading researcher by IAMOT in Washington and nominated for the Scholarly Impact Award by the prestigious Journal of Management.
Today he serves as a member in several academic, economic and political boards, such as a member of the international advisory board of the Google Research Institute for Internet & Society. He also co-founded the think tank GLORAD Shanghai-St. Gallen on global innovation as well as the Entrepreneurial BMI Clinic in Berlin which incubates start-up companies in Europe’s hottest start-up scene. As a founding partner of the advisory group BGW he coached several of the world’s leading companies such as 3M, Airbus, BASF, BMW, Daimler, IBM, FLSmidth, Nestlé, Siemens and Toshiba.
Oliver Gassmann, Swiss & German, is married and has three children.
