Andreas Ninck (www.ninck.ch) is a professor at the Institute for Corporate Development, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland and an adjunct professor at the Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is founder and president of the Heuris Inc. for Service Innovation. Professor Ninck lectures on the subjects of design thinking, creative problem solving, innovation management, service development, collaborative engineering, and educational design. And he is leading a number of national and international R&D projects in these fields. In 2001 and 2008 he was a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning and the Stanford Center for Design Research. Based on his problem based teaching approach he was awarded with the Credit Suisse Award for best Teaching in 2009.