contact
Department Management of Technology and Innovation
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone +31-10-4081719 or +31-10-4082006
Fax +31-10-4089014
E-mail : Mrs. C. Meesters-Mirasol
Prof. Dr. Knut Blind studied economics, political science and psychology at Freiburg University. In the course of his studies he spent one year at Brock University (Canada), where he was awarded a BA. Finally, he took his Diploma in economics at Freiburg University.
Then, he was a research fellow at the Institute for Public Finance Freiburg University. His doctoral thesis, an economic analysis of security problems in information and communication networks, was awarded the F. A. v. Hayek Prize of the Economics Faculty of the University of Freiburg.
In 1996, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe as a senior researcher. In parallel, he was lecturing economics at the Economics Faculty of Kassel University and became reader in economics based on his habilitation thesis on the economics of standards in December 2003.
In April 2006 Knut Blind was appointed Professor of Innovation Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Berlin University of Technology and head of the department "Innovation Systems and Policy" of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research. Since March 2008, he is head of the new Competence Center “Regulation and Innovation” located in its office at Berlin University of Technology. In May 2008, Knut Blind has been awarded the Endowed Chair in Standardisation at Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
publications
Monographs:
Blind, Knut/ Cremers, K./ Müller, E.: The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios, forthcoming in Research Policy 2009.
Blind, Knut /Gauch, S.: Research and Standardisation in Nanotechnology: Evidence from Germany, forthcoming in: Journal of Technology Transfer 2009.
Blind, Knut /Gauch, S.: Trends in ICT Standards in European Standardisation Bodies and Stan-dards Consortia, in: Telecommunication Policy 2008, 32 (7), pp. 503-513.
Egyedi, T. und K. Blind (ed.): The Dynamics of Standards, forthcoming Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2008.
Blind, Knut/ Edler, J./ Friedewald, M.: Software Patents: An Empirical Analysis from an Economic Perspective, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2005
Blind, Knut: The Economics of Standards: Theory, Evidence, Policy, Edward Elgar Cheltenham 2004 (Chinese version published in October 2006).
Cuhls, K./Blind, Knut/Grupp, H.: Innovations for our Future, Physica, Heidelberg 2001.
Papers in refereed journals:
Blind, Knut and S. Gauch: Research and Standardisation in Nanotechnology: Evidence from Germany, forthcoming in: Journal of Technology Transfer 2008
Blind, Knut and S. Gauch: Trends in ICT Standards in European Standardisation Bodies and Standards Consortia, forthcoming in: Telecommunication Policy 2008.
Blind, Knut: Regulatory Foresight: Methodologies and Selected Applications, in Technology Forecasting & Social Change 75 (2008), pp. 496-516.
Blind, Knut/ Jungmittag, A.: The Impact of Standards and Patents on Macroeconomic Growth: A Panel Approach Covering Four Countries and Twelve Sectors, in: Journal of Productivity Analysis vol 1 2008, pp. 51-60.
Blind, Knut: Intellectual Property in Software Development: Trends, Strategies and Problems, in: Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2007, vol. 4(1), pp. 15-25.
Blind, Knut. Editorial Chapter, in Special Issue “Innovation and Regulation” of the International Journal of Public Policy 1/2007, pp. 1-4.
Blind, Knut: Factors Influencing the Lifetime of Telecommunication and Information Technology Standards: Results of an Explorative Analysis of the PERINORM database, in: International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research, 5(1), 2007. pp. 1-24.
Blind, Knut: Interoperability of Software, in: Homo Oeconomicus 23(3) 2006, pp. 295-306.
Blind, Knut/ Edler, J./Frietsch, R./Schmoch, U.: Motives to patent: empirical evidence from Germany, Research Policy, 35(5), 2006, pp. 655-672..
