Marion Poetz

Marion Poetz is Associate Professor of Innovation Management at the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and Scientific Director of the Open Innovation in Science Research and Competence Center (OIS Center). She gained her PhD from WU Vienna and has been a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management, Bocconi University and ETH Zurich. Inspired by phenomena linked to open innovation, crowdsourcing and similar topics, her research is concerned with strategy, leadership, organizational learning and problem solving in new forms of innovation practices that are characterized by being more open, distributed, collaborative, and democratized than traditional models. Marion’s work has been published in leading international journals such as Management Science or the Journal of Product Innovation Management, featured in media such as Harvard Business Review or Inc. Magazine, and received numerous awards. Marion engages as a coordinator and teacher in different international master, PhD and executive teaching programs in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. She is the academic head of the new Graduate Diploma Program in Innovation Management at CBS and co-initiator of the Danish SME Crowdsourcing Lab. Marion has been an academic advisor and consultant to organizations from various industries including national and international firms and policy-making institutions. She has been involved in developing the Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Initiative of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft and acts as the academic director of the Lab for Open Innovation in Science (LOIS). Marion is affiliated with the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID), the Academy of Management (AOM) and has been selected as a member of the Young Global Leaders (YGLs) of the World Economic Forum (WEF).   

Primary research areas

• Management of innovation and technology
• Organizational learning and search
• Strategy and leadership for innovation
• Open/Distributed innovation
• Crowdsourcing and community-based innovation
• (Lead) user innovation
• New product development

Courses

Cand. merc. MIB:
- Innovation & Knowledge (I&K)

PhD School in Economics and Management:
- Developing Research Questions and Proposals
- Management of Innovation

Graduate Diploma (HD) in Innovation Management 
- Management, Organization and Marketing of Innovation

Supervision

Marion Poetz supervises students writing their theses in the fields of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, specifically focusing on Open and Distributed Innovation.