IST Institute

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido Baltes is Director of the IST Innovation Institute in Constance, visiting professor at UIBE University in Beijing and the Rady School of Management at the University of California in San Diego.

As an expert in strategic transformation and innovation, he combines corporate and entrepreneurial experience with internationally renowned research. He was responsible for strategy & marketing in the management of a top 3 IT service company in Germany and, as a (co)founder, successfully built up several start-ups - including Coliquio, the largest medical community in German-speaking countries. He regularly supports start-ups at the University of Konstanz and the Startup Bootcamp of the Entrepreneurship Center of the University of California Berkeley.

Since 2009 he has focused his research on design issues in the context of strategic innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. Against this background, he regularly supports companies in the implementation of innovation-oriented growth strategies and their digital transformation. He is a multiple author of refereed journal and book articles. Together with Antje Freyth, he has recently published the standard work "Veränderungsintelligenz" at Springer/Gabler.

After interdisciplinary studies with a focus on economics and systems science on the one hand and natural sciences and engineering on the other (degree: University of Karlsruhe), Thomas Göllinger worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Organization and Environmental Economics at the University of Siegen and received his doctorate with a thesis on "Strategies for a Sustainable Energy Economy", Dr. rer. pol.

He then worked for many years as a board member and project manager at the Institute for Ecological Business Administration (IöB) at the University of Siegen. The focus was on application-oriented research and consulting, especially strategic environmental and innovation management in the fields of energy / mobility / industry / building management / services etc. This also included the initiation and support of energy efficiency networks and climate protection initiatives as well as organisational development in companies and public administrations.

At the same time, he was habilitated (Dr. rer. pol. habil.) at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Siegen on the topic of "Systemic evolutionary innovation and sustainability management". With the award of the Venia legendi for the subject "Business Administration", Thomas Göllinger continues to be a private lecturer at the University of Siegen and is entitled to supervise doctoral students including the acceptance of doctoral examinations.The preparation and consolidation of four theoretical-conceptual building blocks (evolutionary economics, ecological economics, system-oriented management, industrial environmental economics) along the most important lines of development of modern and future-oriented economics and management sciences into a universal problem-solving methodology in the context of innovation and sustainability as well as their application to a number of equally current and future-relevant subject areas continue to be at the centre of his work.

Since 2012 Thomas Göllinger has been professor at the HTWG Konstanz, especially in the field of "Energy Economics". Teaching in industrial engineering subjects (sustainable energy management, sustainable mobility, planning and organisation, innovation and transformation management as well as general business administration):

Career

Christina Ungerer completed her International Business (B.Sc.) studies at Pforzheim University with a bachelor thesis in a start-up company. During the subsequent two years of work experience in a management consultancy, she continued to work part-time in the start-up sector. She also studied International Management (M.Sc.) at Northeastern University, Boston (USA) and at ESB Reutlingen, where she dealt with the topic of innovation and researched the acceptance behaviour of potential customers of a new technological product. After another year in the automotive industry and strategy development, she joined the IST Institute in July 2015 as a research fellow. Christina Ungerer is doing her doctorate in cooperation with the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Working and Research Focuses

In the context of her dissertation project Christina Ungerer researches success indicators of technology-based start-ups. A business plan analysis on the basis of transaction relationships will be carried out. This includes an algorithm for automatic text recognition.