Susanne Beck

Presentation

Susanne Beck is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and the Open Innovation in Science Research and Competence Center (OIS Center) at Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft.

She has received her PhD in economics from Zeppelin University in Germany and has been a visiting scholar at the Lancaster University Management School’s Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation. During her PhD, Susanne developed and lectured several different international courses in the area of Scientific Research Methods, Consumer Behavior, and Family Business Research on bachelor, master, and executive education level. Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed management and marketing journals such as Journal of Family Business Strategy, International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management and Journal of Family Business Management and her work was awarded with the Best Paper Award from the European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM). Her current research focuses on the organization of scientific knowledge creation and dissemination. Current projects address  for example the definition, measurement, and implications of creating and capturing value from scientific knowledge by applying open innovation approaches.

Primary research areas

-          Organization of scientific knowledge production and dissemination

-          Crowd science

-          Value creation and value capture from scientific knowledge

-          Open innovation in science

-          Sociology of science and knowledge

-          Individual behavior and decision-making processes