Lars Bo Jeppesen

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Lars Bo Jeppesen is a professor at Copenhagen Business School where he holds a position in Management of Innovation at the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics. Lars is currently a visiting scholar at NASA Tournament Lab, Harvard University.

Lars is an expert on innovation as it relates to co-development with users, crowd sourcing, crowd funding, and technology platforms. He has collaborated with various leading companies on innovation strategy and advised governments in Europe and Asia on innovation policy development.

Lars’s research focuses on innovation management and strategy in the digital economy with a specific interest in firms’ ability of accessing and leveraging “external” innovators’ potential and its impact on innovation and firm performance.

Together with professor Eric von Hippel (MIT) Lars co-founded Danish User-Centered Innovation Lab in which he led an initiative on best practice innovation by bringing together academic researchers and leading edge companies (such as Lego. Novo Nordisk, and Coloplast) in projects to develop, test and assess new methods and tools for capturing “distributed” innovations.

Lars holds a master from University of Copenhagen and received his PhD from Copenhagen Business School. He has previously been an associate professor at Bocconi University, and a visiting scholar to universities such as Stanford University and MIT.

His work has been featured in media ranging from Financial Times and Fast Company to Nature and Science. His research has been published in a variety of management journals.