Professor Dr Andreas Pinkwart
Professor of Innovation and Technology Management | TU Dresden
About:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, born in 1960, holds the professorship for Innovation and Technology Management at the Faculty of Business and Economics and is the Director of the Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Dresden.
In the spring of 2011, he took up the position of Rector at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. At the same time, he accepted the call to the Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at HHL.
Pinkwart was Minister for Science (2005-2010), Minister for Innovation (2005-2010 and 2017-2022), Minister for Economy, Digitalisation and Energy (2017-2022) and, from 2005 to 2010, Deputy Minister-President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
