Dr. Reinhard Willfort

Innovation up close: If you are not part of the renewal, you quickly become part of the standstill

Reinhard Willfort began his career as an apprentice in the IT sector. While working, he later studied telematics and economics and received his doctorate with distinction from Graz University of Technology in 2000. In 2001, he founded the innovation forge isn-innovation service network on the basis of his dissertation. He founded 6 other companies and supports many top companies in strategic innovation management. Willfort is a specialist book author, author of more than 60 publications and lecturer at several universities. He was instrumental in setting up the Master's program in Innovation Management at the Danube University Krems and still supervises it today. As a crowdsourcing pioneer, he founded the first Austrian open innovation platform Neurovation.net in 2009 and the first Austrian crowdinvesting platform 1000x1000 in 2012. He is a founding member and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the European Crowdfunding Network based in Brussels.

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Topics

Successfully turning ideas into innovations

The road from the idea to the solution is rocky and risky. Modern innovation methods and crowdsourcing tools help to shape the future systematically.

From employee to creative co-thinker

An authentic appearance on the subject of innovation creates attraction for committed co-thinkers. The cross-site digital networking provides a large dynamic “innovation brain” in your own company.

If the business model no longer works...

Inventing new products and services is not enough today. Successful companies increasingly differentiate themselves through ingenious revenue mechanisms and thus create new markets.

Open Innovation as an Innovation Strategy

Crowdsourcing – Crowdfunding – Crowdbusiness: New strategies and tools help you to better understand your own customers, integrate them into innovations and reduce innovation risk enormously.

References & Press

Reinhard Willfort regularly writes articles for business media, including for the business magazine Kronen Zeitung (Experten FORUM).

INDUSTRY

ATOMIC
AVL List
Berndorf Gruppe
Iskratel Slovenia
NXP Semiconductors
Philips
SIEMENS
voestalpine
VAMED
Hotel Hochschober
Wiesbauer

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Erste Group Bank AG
Fraunhofer IMW, Innovation Finance Group
International Confederation of Popular Banks (CIBP)
Raiffeisenlandesbank Lower Austria-Vienna
Volksbank Academy

ECONOMIC POLICY

Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economics (bmwfw)
European Commission - DG GROW
Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development
Association of Austrian Industry (Industriellenvereinigung/IV)
Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO)

TRAINING AND RESEARCH

European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO)
Danube University Krems - Economics and Management
University of Kent - Canterbury
Webster University

MEDIA

The Economic Publishing House
Austrian Broadcasting (ORF)
Styria Media Group

Publications

Creativity@Work für Wissensarbeit: Kreative Höchstleistungen am Wissensarbeitsplatz auf Basis neuester Erkenntnisse der Gehirnforschung (Berichte aus der Wirtschaftsinformatik)

ISBN : 3832260285

24.80 €

Wissensmanagement mit Innovationsdienstleistungen . Externe Leistungspotenziale zur Stärkung der Wissensbasis (Techno-ökonomische Forschung und Praxis)

ISBN : 3824406020

54.99 €

Dr. Reinhard Willfort

Innovation up close: If you are not part of the renewal, you quickly become part of the standstill