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Rajnish Tiwari

Hochschule Fresenius online plus GmbH, Hamburg University of Technology, University of Hamburg

ORCID iD 0000-0002-7510-4010
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Dr. rer. pol. habil. Rajnish Tiwari is Professor for Business Administration and Global Innovation at Hochschule Fresenius - University of Applied Sciences (HSF) at its Hamburg Campus in Germany. Previously, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader at Institute forTechnology and Innovation Management (TIM) of Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

At TIM, he established the research program on "Global Innovation" that includes work on frugal innovations. He is one of the founding members of Center for Frugal Innovation (CFI) and continues to be a member of its Board of Management, thus establishing a cooperation between HSF and TUHH. Additionally, he was a member of the Advisory Circle ("Beraterkereis") of ITA ("Innovations- und Technikanalysen"), a program iniatied by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) between 2014-17.

His research and teaching are both centered in the confluence zone of international business and innovation management. His current research is primarily focused on affordability-driven "frugal innovations" that fulfill high quality standards ("affordable excellence") and are responsible in its usage of resources. In this multi-leveled research, involving firm, sectoral and national perspectives, he looks not only at emerging economies but also beyond them in oder to get a holistic view. For this, his research proactively examines the prospects for such innovations in the industrialized nations. Rajnish has been a visiting fellow at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia: 2013), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan: 2015, 2016), and Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, USA: 2017). He is also an alumni of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

Cross-cultural management is another area of his expertise. Rajnish offers master level courses in Intercultural Management & Communication at TUHH (as a part of the modules International Business and Marketing and Communication).

Employment

  • Hochschule Fresenius online plus GmbH Professor for Business Administration and Global Innovation
    2021 - Present
  • Hamburg University of Technology Senior Research fellow
    2012 - Present
  • Hamburg University of Technology Research Associate
    2006 - 2012

Education

  • Hamburg University of Technology Doctorate
    2006 - 2013
  • University of Hamburg Diplom-Kaufmann
    1999 - 2006

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