Max von Zedtwitz

Max von Zedtwitz is an Associate Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, and Director of the Research Center for Global R&D Management with locations in Beijing and St. Gallen, Switzerland. He teaches technology management, strategy, innovation and technology-based entrepreneurship in MBA, Ph.D., and executive education programs.
Max von Zedtwitz's research interests focus on R&D management, in particular transnational R&D organization and technology-based entrepreneurship. In his most recent research he investigates innovation and R&D in China, transfer capacity in R&D, communication and coordination in virtual R&D teams, and incubator business models. He has published five books and more than forty articles in leading practitioner and academic journals in English, German, French, Japanese and Chinese. In 1998, he won the RADMA prize for best paper with focus on practicality in the R&D Management Journal, and the ABB Best Paper Award at the IAMOT 2001 conference. He currently serves on the editorial boards of R&D Management, Journal of International Management, Technological Analysis and Strategic Management, and three other international journals.
Max has a Master's degree in Computer Science form ETH-Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of St. Gallen. He worked in software R&D in Florida and Switzerland and in nucleon simulation research in Japan. He was a research associate at the Institute for Technology Management in St. Gallen, where he also worked as a consultant and coach for technology-intensive multinationals. Between 1998 and 2000, he was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then joined IMD-International in Lausanne as a Professor of Technology Management (2000 and 2003).
Max is an executive director at AsiaCompete, a training and consulting company based in Hong Kong, and an executive director of IAMOT, the International Association for Management of Technology. Max is also on the advisory boards of GetAbstract, an Internet-based book summary provider, and of INSEAD InnovAsia, an information services company in Singapore. He is also a former director of BEAM (Boston Economic Advancement Messengers), a Swiss Think-Tank for Entrepreneurship in Boston, Mass., and a co-founder of the Pan-European StartUp-Summit conventions at MIT, Cambridge. In Boston, he co-founded myEuro.Net, an Internet platform focussing on transatlantic relocation and job search services. In consulting, he concentrates on entrepreneurship, R&D and innovation strategy, and start-up incubation