Prof. Dr. Boris Alexander Becker
B.A. Media and Event Management
M.A. International Marketing and Media Management
b.becker[at]hmkw.deBackground
Starting with his studies in the field of economics Boris Alexander Becker holds a Bachelor of Business Administration. He proceeded with Master studies in the field of political sciences including elements of macroeconomics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen (Germany). Against this background Boris Alexander Becker continued with a foreign stay at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), where his idea for the dissertation topic in the field of International Political Economy was born. He fulfilled his doctoral studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) with focus on innovation studies about supportive conditions for knowledge transfer between higher education institutions and enterprises. Simultaneously he worked at the Institute of Educational Science and Media Research at the FernUniversität in Hagen for several years. As fixed term professor he gave lectures mainly in the field of quantitative as well as qualitative empirical methods. In addition, Boris Alexander Becker acquired professional experience as Co-Manager in a medium-sized enterprise with main responsibility for the Online-Business and later as a Project Manager at a management consultancy.
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."
(Henry Ford 1863 – 1947, American Businessman)
Curriculum Vitae
Higher Education
2008-2014 | Ruhr-Universität Bochum: graduation as Dr. rer. soc., topic: “Network versus Hierarchy. Strengths and weaknesses of innovation policy in middle-income countries by means of a comparison between Chile and Mexico | |
2003-2007 | Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen: Master of Arts in Comparative Research of Politics | |
1999-2003 | University of Applied Sciences “FH Oekonomie und Management (FOM)”, Essen, in cooperation with Hogeschool Zeeland, “Diplom-Kaufmann (FH)” / Bachelor of Business Administration |
Professional Experience
Professional Experience in the academic sector
2015-2017 | FernUniversität Hagen: Fixed-Term Professor | ||
2011-2013 | FernUniversität Hagen: Research Fellow | ||
2009-2011 | FernUniversität Hagen: Graduate Assistant | ||
2008-2009 | Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Lecturer |
Professional Experience in the private sector
2017-2018 | IFGE Innovation Research and Consultancy, Berlin: Project Manager | ||
2014-2015 | Waffen-Becker, Hagen: Co-Manager | ||
2007-2009 | Waffen-Becker, Hagen: Co-Manager | ||
1999-2000 | Bayer AG, Leverkusen: activities in the departments Marketing, Procurement, Finance and Planning/Controlling within the Apprenticeship as Industrial Manager |
Publications
Publications and Conference Papers
Becker, B. A., & Eube, C. (2018). Open innovation concept: integrating universities and business in digital age
. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 4(1), 12. doi.org/10.1186/s40852-018-0091-6
Becker, B. A. (2017, July).
Open Innovation in the digital age. New options to close the gap between universities and companies? Presented at the OUI Conference (The 15th International Open and User Innovation Conference), Innsbruck (Austria).
Becker, B. A. (2016). The current role of innovation policy for the competitiveness of Chilean enterprises with focus on university-industry collaboration
(pp. 880–889). doi.org/10.21125/inted.2016.1202
Becker, B., & Eube, C. (2015, October).
Network versus Hierarchy. The Governance of Knowledge-transfer within University-Business Collaboration. Presented at the EADTU Conference 2015 Transforming higher education in the 21st century; ‘Innovating pathways to learning and continuous professional education’, Hagen.
Becker, B. A. (2014). Netzwerk versus Hierarchie. Stärken und Schwächen der Innovationspolitik in Schwellenländern anhand eines Ländervergleichs von Chile und Mexiko. Bochum. Retrieved from http://www-brs.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/netahtml/HSS/Diss/BeckerBorisAlexander/