Michael Dowling (born 1958,

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) is an American scholar, and Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at the University of Regensburg, in Germany.

Background

Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling was named to the Professorship for Innovation and Technology Management at the

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effective July 1, 1996. Previously he had been an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with tenure at the

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, USA. Prof. Dowling was born in 1958 in

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, USA. He is the younger brother of physicist

Jonathan Dowling Jonathan P. Dowling (3 April 1955 – 5 June 2020) was an Irish-American researcher and professor in theoretical physics, known for his work on quantum technology, particularly for exploiting quantum entanglement (in the form of a NOON state) f ...

. He graduated from Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas as Salutatorian of the Class of 1976. He then studied at the

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(Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with High Honors), Harvard University (Master of Science in Management and Public Policy) and University of Texas at Austin (Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration). As an exchange student he also spent two years at the University of München. He has worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria and for

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in Düsseldorf Germany. He is the Founder and Director of the “Honors” Elite master's degrees Program in Business, Economics and Information Systems in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the

, which is a member of the Elite Network of Bavaria. He was Co-Director of the Exist-High Technology Entrepreneurship Post Graduate Program funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research from 2000-2006. He was also on the Advisory Board of the Hans Lindner Institute, a private foundation that supports small business and entrepreneurship activities in Eastern Bavaria. He has a published over 50 academic articles in Die Betriebswirtschaft,

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, Management Science, California Management Review, Research Policy, Business Horizons, Columbia Journal of World Business, and Telecommunications Policy. His has also written several chapters and edited the book on Entrepreneurship In 2009, he was ranked 62 in the German business newspaper Handelsblatt’s ranking of the Top 200 (from a total of 2000) Professors of Business Administration in Germany, Austria and Switzerland based on research productivity His research interests include the strategic management of technology, high technology entrepreneurship, and the relationships between technology, public policy, and economic development. Since 2014, he is the Chairman of the Board of the MÜNCHNER KREIS, an international non-profit association dedicated to the digital transformation. He became a full member of acatech, the German Academy of Technology in Fall 2015.

Honors

2009 Handelsblatt Ranking of the Top 200 Business Professors in – Lifetime Rank 62 1998 State of Bavaria Teaching Award 1993 Sarah Moss Fellowship, University of Georgia 1990 SEL Foundation Fellowship, Munich, Germany 1990 Sarah Moss Fellowship, University of Georgia 1989 Lilly Fellowship, University of Georgia 1985 University of Texas Graduate Fellowship 1980 German American Club an
Fulbright Scholarships
to the University of Munich 1980 Phi Beta Kappa 1978 Rotary International Foundation Fellowship to the University of Munich

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dowling, Michael Harvard University alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni McCombs School of Business alumni 1958 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Regensburg