Biography
Kathrin Borner (PhD) is Assistant Professor in Innovation Management at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University. She is visiting scholar at MIT Sloan for which she received the KNAW Van der Gaag grant in 2024. Her research has been published among others in the leading journal Research Policy and won the Best Student Paper Award at the World Open Innovation Conference in 2022.
Kathrin is a qualitative researcher interested in how people innovate. She loves going into the field to learn from managers, users or other innovators. For her PhD she conducted four years of fieldwork using ethnographic methods.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Assistant professor | Department of Technology and Operations Management
- borner@rsm.nl
More information
Work
- Kathrin Borner, Hans Berends, Fleur Deken & Frans Feldberg (2023) - Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems - Research Policy, 52 (7) - doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104788 - [link]
- Emiel L. Eijdenberg & Kathrin Borner (2017) - The performance of subsistence entrepreneurs in Tanzania's informal economy - Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 22 (1) - doi: 10.1142/S1084946717500078 - [link]
- Kathrin Borner (2024) - KNAW Van der Gaag Grant
- Kathrin Borner (2022) - Henry Chesbrough Best Student Paper Award
Research Trajectory & Thesis
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BMMTMI1
OLD STYLE - Research Fundamentals Course
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BMRMMI
Strategy of Innovation
- Year Level
- master, IM/CEMS, Exchange, ERIM
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM02MI
