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)









