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Professor Dr. Max von Zedtwitz
Professor Dr. Max von Zedtwitz is President of AsiaCompete Intl Ltd., a research, training and advisory company based in Hong Kong with offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and a professor of technology management at universities in China, Europe, and the US.
Prof. Dr. Max von Zedtwitz holds Ph.D. (Business Administration) and MBA (Technology and Innovation Management) degrees from the University of St. Gallen, and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the ETH Zurich. He was a nucleonics research scientist for ATR in Japan and a software development engineer for Siemens in the US before returning to business school. He spent three years as a project manager and subject expert at the Institute of Technology Management. He then was a visiting fellow at Harvard University for two years. During this time, he initiated the MIT European Career Fair and started an online job platform called myEuro.net.
In 2000, he joined the faculty of IMD where he focused on executive education in technology and innovation management, and he led several consulting teams as part of the MBA curriculum. In 2003, he became a professor at Tsinghua University where he founded the Research Center for Global R&D Management, with offices in Beijing and St. Gallen (Switzerland), as a platform for dozens of visiting scientists on transnational innovation, and resulting in several groundbreaking publications. In 2004, he started his second venture, AsiaCompete Intl Ltd., which is a provider of technology and innovation scouting, R&D and innovation management consulting, and management development for China-based executives and expatriates, now employing 12 people.
Besides being on the faculty of Tsinghua, he is also Visiting Professor of China Business at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Adjunct Professor of Strategy at Rutgers Business School, New Jersey, USA, and a Research Professor at ESC Grenoble, France, teaching in MBA, EMBA, DBA and Ph.D. programs. He has published 12 books and more than 60 papers in academic and practitioner journals.
He is a member of the steering committee of the Swiss Science Consulates, the board of directors of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce, Beijing, the advisory boards of GetAbstract, a web-based book summary provider, and of Squarewise, a Dutch consulting firm.
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