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New Junior Professor for Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at HHL

The Leipzig Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer sponsors the Schumpeter Junior Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer

On March 1, 2012, Dr. Vivek K. Velamuri (32) will become the new Schumpeter Junior Professor for Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at HHL. This Junior Professorship is kindly being sponsored by the Leipzig Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Dr. Velamuri’s research focus is on hybrid value creation, i.e. the process of generating value added by combining products and services to well-adjusted offers. This is the topic on which he completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Chair of Professor Kathrin M. Möslein) with a summa cum laude. Working at Professor Möslein’s Chair, which focuses on innovation and value creation, Dr. Verlamuri gained significant experience in research carried out in cooperation with industry. Additionally, the new Junior Professor, who also holds an MBA from HHL, has a solid background in teaching. His constant interaction with entrepreneurs motivated him to design a course for students to write cases on entrepreneurial firms.
 
New Junior Professorship strengthens HHL's profile as an entrepreneurial business school
 
HHL Dean Prof. Andreas Pinkwart says: "We are glad Dr. Velamuri has assumed the Leipziger Stiftung für Innovation und Technologietransfer Schumpeter Junior Professorship ‘Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer‘ post. His appointment will strengthen our profile as an international business school and incubator for new business ideas and start-ups in the Leipzig innovation region. The knowledge and innovation transfer in this region is of particular concern for the Leipzig-based foundation as well. Together with the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, the new Junior Professorship opens up further profiling opportunities, which will increase our performance and penetration in a strategic field for the future in the Leipzig region." Further information: www.hhl.de
 
Leipzig Foundation for Innovation and Technology transfer
The Leipzig Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer was established in 2000 and sees its core task in the improvement of the framework conditions for innovations and new technologies in the economy. The foundation promotes the economic application of research results for Leipzig-based companies in and for Leipzig. Further information: www.leipziger-stiftung.de
 
HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management
HHL is a university-level institution and ranks amongst the leading international business schools. The goal of the most traditional business school in German-speaking Europe is to educate effective, responsible and entrepreneurially minded leaders. In addition to HHL’s international focus the combination of theory and practice plays a key role. HHL stands out for its excellent teaching, its clear research focus, its effective knowledge transfer into practice as well as its outstanding student services.
With over 120 start-ups by HHL alumni over the past fourteen years, Germany's top address for young managers has also developed into an incubator for company foundations. Well-known examples are in addition to Gollmann Kommissioniersysteme the winners of the 2008 Founder's Prize awarded by WirtschaftsWoche magazine SunCoal Industries or Leipzig-based companies Spreadshirt and billigflieger.de. The founders' entrepreneurial commitment has created more than 2,500 jobs already, over 1,100 of which are located in the Leipzig region alone. Further information: www.hhl.de