Prof. Dr. Jan Kratzer - TU Berlin
Prof. Dr Jan Kratzer is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management and Academic Director / Founder of the Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He is Pro-Dean for Internationalisation in the Faculty of Business and Management, member of the Academic Senate and the commission of scientific misconduct at Technische Universität Berlin. Prof. Dr Jan Kratzer established and heads the MSc "Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability" ("IMES") dual degree programme in 2010. He is in the Editorial Board of "Creativity and Innovation Management" (CIM), "Journal of Product Innovation Management" (J-PIM), "Sustainability" and "Highlights of Sustainability".
His research is focussed on factors that accelerate sustainable entrepreneurship. In the context of his research are social sustainability, individual behaviour, social networks and research methodology. His research has been published in among others Journal of Cleaner Production, Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Economy and Society, Journal of Consumer Research, Industry & Innovation, Research Policy, Heath Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Technology Transfer, Research-Technology Management, Journal of Creativity, Technovation, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management and Journal of Entrepreneurship Education.
Publications
Artikel
Peer-Reviewed Publications only publication with Impact Factor IF > 4.00 (Journal Citation Reports® Clarivate Analytics, 2023)
J.Kratzer, R.Th.A.J. Leenders, J.M.L. van Engelen, (2006) ‘Managing creative team performance in virtual environments: An empirical study in 44 R&D teams’, Technovation, 26, pp. 42-49.
R.Th.A.J. Leenders, J.M.L. van Engelen, J. Kratzer (2007) ‘Systematic Design Methods and the Creative Performance of New Product Teams: Do They Contradict or Compliment each other', Journal of Product Innovation Management , 24, pp. 166-179.
J. Kratzer, H.G. Gemuenden, CH. Lettl, (2008) ‘Balancing creativity and time efficiency in multi-team R&D projects: The alignment of formal and informal networks’, R&D Management, pp. 538-549.
J. Kratzer, H.G. Gemuenden, CH. Lettl (2008) ‘Revealing dynamics and consequences of fit and misfit between formal and informal networks in multi-institutional product development collaborations', Research Policy, pp. 1356-1370.
J. Kratzer, Ch. Lettl, (2009) ‘The distinctive role of lead users and opinion leaders in the social networks of schoolchildren', Journal of Consumer Research, 36, 646-659.
J.Kratzer, R.Th.A.J. Leenders, J.M.L. van Engelen, (2010) `The social network among engineering design teams and their creativity: A case study among teams in two product development programs`, International Journal of Project Management, 28, 428-436.
J. Kratzer, H.G. Gemuenden, CH. Lettl, (2011) 'The organizational design of large R&D collaborations and its effect on time and budget efficiency: The contrast between blueprint and reality, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2, pp. 295-306.
I. Michelfelder, J. Kratzer (2013) ‘Why and How Combining Strong and Weak Ties within a Single Interorganizational R&D Collaboration Outperforms Other Collaboration Structures’, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 30, pp. 1159-1177.
J. Kratzer, Ch. Lettl, B. Franke, P. Gloor (2016) ‘The social network position of lead user’, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 33 (2), pp. 201-216.
J. Kratzer, D. Meissner, V. Roud (2017) `Open innovation and company culture: internal openness makes the difference`, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 119, pp. 128-138.
J. Horne, M. Recker, I. Michelfelder, J. Kratzer, J. Jay (2020) `Exploring entrepreneurship related to the sustainable development goals – mapping new venture activities with semi-automated content analysis, Journal of Cleaner Production, 242, 118052.
L. Rashid, K. Alzafari, J. Kratzer (2020) `Founder Personalities, Behaviors and New Venture Success in Sub-Saharan Africa`, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 151, 119766.
J. Kratzer (2020) `Starting up in the Age of Sustainability`, Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 21, pp. 89-92.
T. Lammers, L., Rashid, J. Kratzer, A. Voinov (2022) An analysis of the sustainability goals of digital technology start-ups in Berlin, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185, 122096.
M. Karahan, L. Rashid, J. Kratzer (2022) Gearing-up for purpose: The relationship between entrepreneurs’ usage of incubation support services and sustainable impacts, Journal of Cleaner Production, 377, 134315.
Meissner, D., Harms, R., Kratzer, J., Zhou, J. (2024) The dead end of classical innovation management and unsustainable innovation, Technovation, 129, 102916.
