Ulrike Tagscherer

Dr. Ulrike Tagscherer studied geography, political sciences and modern Chinese at Heidelberg University. In 1999, she received her doctoral degree and in 2000 she joined Fraunhofer Headquarters as Manager Asia. Dr. Tagscherer was appointed Director International Business Development Asia in 2004. In May 2008, she joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe and in August 2008 Dr. Tagscherer started to work at the Institute of Policy and Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS IPM) in China. In September 2013, she was seconded from Fraunhofer ISI to work in the newly established ‘Joint Center for Innovation Research’ between CAS IPM and Fraunhofer ISI in Beijing. Dr. Tagscherer moved back to Germany in 2015 and has been working as business model development expert at Fraunhofer headquarters in Munich until August 2017. In addition, she founded the consulting company ‘China Innovation Consulting’ in October 2016, where she supports companies in developing their innovation strategies and innovation collaborations in the Sino-German context. Since September 2017 she works as Senior Innovation Manager at KUKA AG.

Courses and Focus

At MBS: Lecturer for "Management in Emerging Markets"

Courses: [MBA GM]

Focus: Innovation, Emerging Markets, Business in China

Publications

Liu, Xielin; Schwaag Serger, Sylvia; Tagscherer, Ulrike; Chang, Amber Y. (2017): Beyond catch-up-can a new innovation policy help China overcome the middle income trap? In: Science and Public Policy, Science and Public Policy, 2017, 1-14.https://academic.oup.com/spp/article/doi/10.1093/scipol/scw092/3058734/Beyond-catch-up-can-a-new-innovation-policy-help

Zanker, Christoph et. al. (2014): Elektromobilität weltweit. Baden-Württemberg im internationalen Vergleich. Hrsg.: e-mobil BW GmbH - Landesagentur für Elektromobilität und Brennstoffzellentechnologie Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart. http://www.emobil-sw.de/files/e-mobil/content/DE/Publikationen/PDF/14425_Studie-Internationales-Benchmarking_RZ_WebPDF.pdf

Tagscherer, Ulrike (2015): Science-Industry-Linkages in China - Motivation, Models and Success Factors for collaborations of MNCs with Chinese Academia. Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis No. 47.http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-wAssets/docs/p/de/diskpap_innosysteme_policyanalyse/discussionpaper_47_2015.pdf

Frietsch, Rainer; Tagscherer, Ulrike (2014): German-Sino collaboration in science, technology and innovation. Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis No. 43.http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-wAssets/docs/p/de/diskpap_innosysteme_policyanalyse/discussionpaper_43_2014.pdf

Tagscherer, Ulrike; Frietsch, Rainer (2014): E-mobility in China - Chances or Daydream? Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis No. 40.http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-wAssets/docs/p/de/diskpap_innosysteme_policyanalyse/discussionpaper_40_2014.pdf

Fu, Junying; Frietsch, Rainer; Tagscherer, Ulrike (2013): Publication activity in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database in the context of Chinese science and technology policy from 1977 to 2012. Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis No. 35.http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-wAssets/docs/p/de/diskpap_innosysteme_policyanalyse/discussionpaper_35_2013.pdf

Tagscherer, Ulrike (2012): Electric mobility in China - A policy review. Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis No. 30.http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-wAssets/docs/p/de/diskpap_innosysteme_policyanalyse/discussionpaper_30_2012.pdf

Tagscherer, Ulrike; Kroll, Henning; Luo Xin (2012): Regional Innovation Systems in China - An Analysis of Industry-Science Linkages in the Bohai Bay Area, p. 16-40. In: Petti, Claudio (ed.): Technological Entrepreneurship in China. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Kroll, Henning; Tagscherer, Ulrike (2009): Chinese Regional Innovation Systems in times of crisis: the case of Guangdong. In: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2009, 17 (2), p. 101-128.

Tagscherer, Ulrike (1999): Mobility and Career in the People´s Republic of China - Chinese managers in the process of transformation. Ph.D. thesis, University of Heidelberg, Faculty for Mathematics and Natural Sciences, in German with English summery).

Tagscherer, Ulrike (1995): The Chinese Education System with special regards to regional disparities in illiteracy and school drop-outs. Master thesis, University of Heidelberg, Department of Geography.