From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship

Erik E. Lehmann is a Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Augsburg (Germany) and Director of the CisAlpino Institute of Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE), a joint venture of the University of Augsburg (Germany) and the University of Bergamo (Italy). He serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Bergamo, an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University in Bloomington (USA), co-director of the Augsburg Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE), and a board member of the Bavarian America Academy (BAA) in Munich, Germany. Many of his publications on entrepreneurship have received a high amount of citations in the field. Max Keilbach is a renowned economic researcher in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation. Formally a senior researcher at both the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group) and the Department of Industrial Economics at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), he has published extensively on topics relating to regional clusters, knowledge spillovers and the impact of public policy on economic growth, among others. He has lectured in various institutions throughout the world and has also served as the chairman of a textile company in southwest Germany. In addition to these pursuits, he is also a critically acclaimed vocal musician and has toured in Europe and North America. He has started-up several firms in the entertainment industry in Berlin.