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Prof. Dr. Sascha Friesike

Member of the Board & Director, Principal Investigator
Sascha Friesike

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Sascha Friesike is Professor of Digital Innovation Design at the Berlin University of the Arts and Member of the Board & Director (UdK) of the Weizenbaum Institute e.V. He is also an associate researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Friesike is an industrial engineer and holds a doctorate in innovation management from the University of St.Gallen. He spent a year of his doctorate in Stanford, USA. He then helped to establish the Humboldt Institute in Berlin, where he was Head of Research until 2016.

He was Professor of Business Administration at the University of Würzburg from 2014 to 2016 and Assistant Professor of Digital Innovation at the VU University in Amsterdam from 2017 to 2019. His research focuses on the role digital plays when something new is created. He examines the role of digitalization in academic research or looks at how creative people remix existing concepts to create something new.

Positions at Weizenbaum Institut

Member of the Board & Director, Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator (PI) since 15 September 2022

Research Group: Reorganisation of Knowledge Practices

 

Principal Investigator (PI) until 14 September 2022

Research Group: Reorganisation of Knowledge Practices

Committees and functions

  • Professor for Designing Digital Innovation at the Berlin University of the Arts
  • Head of the Leadership in Digital Innovation program at the Berlin University of the Arts
  • Affiliated Professor at the KIN Center for Digital Innovation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
  • Delegated representative of the German Research Foundation in the Working Group on Science Practice of the Alliance Initiative Digital Information

Publications

Here you'll find an overview of the research publications.

Contact

E-Mail
sascha.friesike@weizenbaum-institut.de
Organisation
Weizenbaum-Institut e.V.
Phone
+49 30 700141-050

Publications

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