Daniel Ehls

Daniel Ehls is a Full Professor of General Business Administration at the Business School, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, where he leads the 'International Business & Management' B.Sc. program and the Fulda Centre for Business Management and Entrepreneurship (FU³). He is a founding coach for startups and a former Affiliated Researcher at Harvard Business School.

• Education:
  • PhD in Economics and Social Sciences (2013), Hamburg University of Technology
  • M.Sc. in Technology Management (2008), University of Stuttgart
  • Study in Manufacturing Engineering and Management (2007), University of Nottingham
• Research Interests:
  • Corporate management and business models with distributed users
  • Innovation management in the digital economy and AI applications
  • Open innovation, crowdsourcing, and open-source dynamics
  • Quantitative/qualitative empirical methods (experiments)
• Scientific Awards:
  • Teaching Innovation Award (2016, 2018) with three-month employee funding
  • Best Paper Nomination (Academy of Management, TIM Division 2020)
  • DAAD Postdoctoral Scholarships (2015-2016)
• Projects:
  • Partner in EU-funded LEAPXR project (2025-2027)
  • Founding member of E³UDRES² Research Centre of Excellence (2024-2028)
  • Initiator of 'Problem Formulation' symposium at Academy of Management
  • Leader of 'Open Foresight' project (2015-2017, €921,802 funding)