TUM – The Entrepreneurial University
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has been a partner of the YES! – Young Economic Summit since 2021/2022.
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The Technical University of Munich (TUM) ranks among Europe’s most outstanding universities in research and innovation – an achievement powered by its distinctive character as the Entrepreneurial University.
TUM’s unparalleled range of disciplines covers engineering, management and social sciences, natural sciences, life sciences and medicine – a combination found nowhere else in Europe. TUM leverages this enormous potential by intensively and intelligently combining the different subjects. This inspires modern fields of research extending from bioengineering to machine intelligence. At the same time, TUM links technological change more closely with economic, social, and ethical issues than other technical universities.
Its outstanding degree programs are strongly oriented towards research and, at the same time, tightly coupled to practical experience. Managers regularly choose TUM as one of the best universities worldwide for the quality of graduates (Global Employability University Rankings).
No other German university produces more start-up founders – the result of a support infrastructure unrivalled in Europe. TUM also builds long-term research partnerships with the most innovative global players. More and more companies are establishing roots directly on campus.
TUM is an international university with a high proportion of foreign students and researchers as well as more than 150 partner universities around the globe. With the founding of TUM Asia in 2002 in Singapore, it became the first German university to establish an overseas campus. TUM also has offices in Brussels, Mumbai, Beijing, San Francisco, and São Paulo.
TUM was awarded the title of University of Excellence in 2006, 2012, and 2019 in recognition of its innovative, dynamic culture.
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Topics 2022
Climate change and global development: How can the European “Green Deal” make the global economic system sustainable and climate neutral?
by Anja Faße, Sebastian J. Goerg and Andreas Pondorfer
Quanten-Computing als Innovationstreiber? Wie können die Potentiale der Quantentechnologie realisiert werden?
by Hanna Hottenrott and David Angenendt
Sharing the Future – Growing Sustainable Communities: How can Local Networks help Exchange Information and Support Sustainable Living
by Svetlana Ikonnikova
Participating Researchers
David Angenendt
Dr David Angenendt is a research associate at the School of Management of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) with research interests in innovation economics, intellectual property and industrial economics. His work includes contributions to patent policy, corporate strategy and knowledge sharing. Before coming to TUM, he was a research fellow at the Center for Business Research at the University of Cambridge and at the Department of Economics at the University of Bologna, where he also received his PhD in Economics. David holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham and a Diploma in Business Administration from Philipps University Marburg.
Anja Faße
Prof. Dr. Anja Faße heads the Chair of Environmental and Development Economics at the TUMCS for Biotechnology and Sustainability at the Technical University of Munich. In 2013, she completed her doctorate on the topic of bioenergy and value chains in Tanzania at the Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade at the Faculty of Economics of Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Sebastian J. Goerg
Prof. Dr. Sebastian J. Goerg heads the Chair of Economics at the TUMCS for Biotechnology and Sustainability at the Technical University of Munich. Professor Goerg conducts research in the fields of behavioural and experimental economics. He studies the effects of incentives, information and (legal) institutions on human behaviour. Professor Goerg received his PhD in economics from the University of Bonn in 2010.
Hanna Hottenrott
Prof. Dr. Hottenrott’s research and teaching focus on questions of innovation and science economics as well as technological change.
After studying economics at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, she worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium from 2006 to 2013. In 2013, she accepted a call to a junior professorship in industrial economics at the Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf before joining the School of Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in May 2016.
Svetlana Ikonnikova
Svetlana Ikonnikova is the Associate Professor for Resource Economics at the TUM School of Management and a Research Director at the Center for Energy Markets. Her interests include, but not limited to, the energy markets and the energy transition, new technologies for the economically affordable and environmentally sustainable future. Prof. Ikonnikova is also affiliated with the Center for Energy Economics, the University of Texas at Austin, working on the questions of global energy supply and international energy trade.
Prof. Ikonnikova holds PhD in Economics and Management from the Humboldt University of Berlin, and MS in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. With nearly 20 years of professional experience, Prof. Ikonnikova has numerous publications presenting complex economic models integrating resource characterization and engineering solutions. She works closely with non-economic disciplines to develop a comprehensive understanding of national and international supply networks and energy markets.
Andreas Pondorfer
Prof. Dr Andreas Pondorfer heads the Sustainable Economic Policy Professorship at the TUMCS for Biotechnology and Sustainability at the Technical University of Munich. Professor Pondorfer conducts research in the field of behavioural economics and integrates insights from biology, anthropology and psychology into economics. He received his PhD in economics from Kiel University in 2016.
