Interdisciplinary researcher and visionary. Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Group for Innovation Research, Director of the Institute for Human Engineering & Empathic Design HEED at the University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim and Professor for Innovation and Interdisciplinarity Research in the Endowed Chair of the Karl Schlecht Foundation. Writes on all aspects of strategic innovation, technology and R&D management, especially on the topics of radical and disruptive innovations, interdisciplinarity and the future of innovation.