Knut Blind
Dr. Knut Blind is Deputy Head of the “Technology Analysis and Innovation
Strategies” Department of Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research
and Head of the "Innovation and Regulation" Taskforce.
Mr. Blind has studied Economics, Political Science and Psychology at Freiburg
University and spent one year at Brock University (Canada), where he acquired a BA
in Economics. After receiving his diploma in Economics from the University of
Freiburg, Dr. Blind was a research fellow at the Institute for Public Finance at
Freiburg University, where he received his doctoral degree. Meanwhile, he is a reader
at the Faculty of Economics at Kassel University. His research and work areas focus
on Innovation and Regulation, especially on Standardization and Technical Change,
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Innovations in the Service Sector, Technology
Foresight and on Science and Technology Indicators.
He is also member of the "Industrial Economics" Committee of the Verein f?r
Socialpolitik, member of the Editorial Review Board in "The International Journal of
IT Standards & Standardization Research" and he participates in a network of
academic institutions in the field of standardisation.