Kathrin Reinsberger
Kathrin is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). She is an economist by training, holding a PhD in Innovation and Technology Management from the University of Graz. After completing her studies, she spent two years working in industry for BMW FIZ in Munich and the Austrian Institute for Economic Research in Vienna.
Prior to joining SSE, Kathrin has been an Assistant Professor (Postdoc) at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. Kathrin has been a visiting scholar at Columbia Business School (2018) the Laboratory of Innovation Science at Harvard (2019) and Stanford University (2022).
Her research interest lies in the intersection of the fields of innovation, technology, and strategy. In this vein, she is driven by the question of how to enable organizations to acquire, assess, and implement external knowledge to create innovation. Ongoing work investigates this by focusing on knowledge management and the subsequent organizational learning, specifically within the context of crowds, contests, and communities.