Marion Poetz

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mp.si@cbs.dk

Departments

Institut for Strategi og Innovation

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Emner

Innovation Management Organisation Strategi Co-creation

Primary research areas

Organization and Management of Innovation

I study how organizations structure and manage innovation processes, focusing on mechanisms that foster creativity, openness, and collaboration across boundaries in both corporate and academic settings.

Strategy and Leadership for Innovation

My work explores how strategic decision-making and leadership practices influence innovation outcomes, with a particular focus on strategic problem identification, innovation-oriented governance structures, and open innovation leadership.

Organization and Management of Science

I investigate how scientists and research organizations develop, evaluate, and translate scientific discovery to better understand the drivers of scientific productivity and the societal and policy impact of research.

Open and Collaborative Knowledge Production

I examine how and under what conditions open and collaborative approaches to science and innovation change how knowledge is created, shared, and used -especially when addressing complex societal challenges in healthcare and sustainability.

Crowdsourcing and Crowd Science

I analyze how crowds of citizens, users, and other societal stakeholders outside traditional institutions contribute to scientific discovery and innovation through crowdsourcing and community-based approaches.

Inter- and Transdisciplinary Collaboration

My research explores how actors from scientific, corporate, and societal domains collaborate in joint knowledge production - and what structures and organizational designs support successful inter- and transdisciplinary integration.

I help link science, innovation and societal impact

I am an Associate Professor of Innovation Management at the Department of Strategy and Innovation at CBS, where I investigate how science and innovation can be organized to address complex societal challenges in areas such as health and sustainability. My research particularly focuses on the processes, effects, and boundary conditions of open and collaborative knowledge production.

My work has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals such as Management Science, Research Policy, and Harvard Business Review, and has been recognized with multiple awards, including the 2019 TIME Best Paper Award for the most impactful paper published in an INFORMS journal over a five-year period.

I serve as Chair of the Association for Advancing Science and Innovation, which organizes the annual Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference. I also founded the Institute for Innovation Capability Building and created the Lab for Open Innovation in Science (LOIS).

In addition to my academic roles, I act as an advisor, board member, and consultant to organizations across sectors - including companies, research institutions, and policy-making bodies - using research-based approaches to support them in designing innovative strategies, organizational contexts, and processes for transformation.

I hold a PhD from WU Vienna and have been a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management, Bocconi University, and ETH Zurich. I am affiliated with the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID), the Academy of Management (AoM), and the Young Global Leaders community of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Outside activities

2030 Green Academy, 2025–present

Academic director advancing sustainable innovation through open Innovation methods & the use of Artificial Intelligence

https://www.2030green.academy

aws Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, 2024–present

Advisor and consultant enabling community-based innovation to develop sustainable projects and transform food systems.

https://www.gemeinsamgestalten.at

Institute for Innovation Capability Building,, 2018–present

Founder and scientific director, helping organizations design innovation strategies, contexts, and processes.

Einstein Center for Neuroscience (ECN) Berlin, 2018–2023

Program director at ECN LOIS and OIS Award, fostering open, collaborative practices for neuroscience research.

What’s Next Institute, 2018–present

Academic advisor, supporting the development of innovation programs and policy reports.