Timo Leimbach

Fraunhofer Institute for
Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Experience

1997-2003: Study of Business Administration and Economic/Modern History at the University of Mannheim

2004-2009: PhD in Modern History and Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Topic of the PhD thesis: Software industry in Germany

Since 2008 Project Manager and Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Reserach ISI. Before he worked at the Department for Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School, the Institute for Information Sciences and New Media at LMU Munich and the Research Institute for the History of Technology and Science of the Deutsches Museum.

Work Focus

  • Innovation and Innovation Systems in the Information and Communication Technologies
  • Economic and Social Impacts of emerging technologies, espacially in the field of ICT
  • Future of ICT industries on regional, national and international level
  • Analysis of economic, social and organisational reciprocations and changes by the application of ICT in organisations (public and private)
  • Economic, industry, innovation and technology policies for emerging technologies and industries

Further Research Areas

  • Future Research especially Technology Foresights and Weak Signals
  • Innovation Systems Analysis
  • Emergence of new technologies and industries

Projects

  • EUC SSBS – The economic and social impact of Software and Software based Services, EU Commission
  • IT-TrendsBW – IT-Trends und neue Technologien, IT Amt Bundeswehr
  • Kurzstudie Softwareindustrie – Die Software und IT-Dienstleistungsbranche in Deutschland
  • PriTUIS – Privacy and Trust in an Ubiquitous Information Society, EU Commission
  • EVITA – E-safety vehicle intrusion protected applications, EU FP7
  • Energiebedarf IKT – Abschätzung des Energiebedarfs der weiteren Entwicklung der Informationsgesellschaft, BMWi