Marion K. Poetz

Marion Poetz is an Associate Professor of Innovation Management at the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). She holds a PhD from WU Vienna and has been a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management, Bocconi University, and ETH Zurich.

Her research focuses on the management and organization of science and innovation, with particular interest in the processes, effects, and boundary conditions of open and collaborative knowledge production. Marion’s work has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals such as Management Science, Research Policy, and Harvard Business Review, featured in various media outlets, and recognized with multiple awards - including the 2019 TIME Best Paper Award for the most impactful paper published in an INFORMS journal over a five-year period.

Marion serves as Chair of the Association for Advancing Science and Innovation, which organizes the annual Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference. She is the founder of the Institute for Innovation Capability Building and the creator of the Lab for Open Innovation in Science (LOIS). In addition to her academic roles, she acts as an advisor, board member, and consultant to organizations across sectors, including companies, research institutions, and policy-making bodies.

She is affiliated with the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID), the Academy of Management (AoM), and the Young Global Leaders community of the World Economic Forum (WEF).