René Rohrbeck

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René Rohrbeck is Professor and Director of the FIT Chair on Future FITness at EDHEC Business School, where he also directs the Center for Net Positive Business. He holds a UNESCO Chair and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network. His research and practice focus on strategic foresight, corporate future preparedness, and helping organisations institutionalise "organizational future fitness" — building the capabilities to anticipate, prepare for, and shape transformative change.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Professor of Strategy, EDHEC Business School
  • 2011–2023
    Professor of Strategy, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University

Education

  • 2010 
    Technische Universität Berlin, Dr. rer. oec. Technology and Innovation Management (PhD)

Publications

  • 2026
    From theory to therapy: integrating artificial intelligence for transformative healthcare innovation, Health Systems
  • 2026
    Building industry in 2040: An explorative scenario analysis of alternative sustainability pathways, Futures
  • 2024
    Leveraging Podcasts as Academic Resources: A Seven-step Methodological Guide, International Journal of Qualitative Methods
  • 2024
    Artificial intelligence-driven sustainable development: Examining organizational, technical, and processing approaches to achieving global goals, Sustainable Developmen
  • 2023
    Stand-alone or run together: artificial intelligence as an enabler for other technologies, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
  • 2023
    How to anchor design thinking in the future: Empirical evidence on the usage of strategic foresight in design thinking projects, Futures
  • 2023
    Medicine of the future: How and who is going to treat us?, Futures
  • 2023
    Technology entrepreneurship in healthcare: Challenges and opportunities for value creation, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge
  • 2022
    Foresight in Strategy and Innovation Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
  • 2020
    Corporate foresight as a microfoundation of dynamic capabilities, Futures & Foresight Science
  • 2020
    50 Years of corporate and organizational foresight: Looking back and going forward, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • 2019
    Combining scenario planning and business wargaming to better anticipate future competitive dynamics, Futures & Foresight Science
  • 2019
    Forward-looking search during innovation projects: Under which conditions it impacts innovativeness, Technovation
  • 2019
    Five Strategic Foresight Tools to Enhance Business Model Innovation Teaching, Journal of Business Models
  • 2019
    Escaping the ‘ Faster Horses ’ Trap: Bridging Strategic Foresight and Design-Based Innovation, Technology Innovation Management Review
  • 2018
    The role of corporate foresight in exploring new markets – evidence from 3 case studies in the BOP markets, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
  • 2018
    Corporate foresight and its impact on firm performance: A longitudinal analysis, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • 2017
    Scenario-based strategizing: Advancing the applicability in strategists' teams, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • 2017
    Double ambidexterity: How a Telco incumbent used business-model and technology innovations to successfully respond to three major disruptions, Creativity and Innovation Management
  • 2015
    IT tools for foresight: The integrated insight and response system of Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • 2015
    Corporate foresight: An emerging field with a rich tradition, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • 2013
    The value contribution of strategic foresight: Insights from an empirical study of large European companies, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • 2013
    Collaborative business modelling for systemic and sustainability innovations, International Journal of Technology Management
  • 2012
    Exploring value creation from corporate-foresight activities, Futures
  • 2012
    Strategic foresight for collaborative exploration of new business fields, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • 2011
    Corporate foresight: Its three roles in enhancing the innovation capacity of a firm, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • 2010
    Sourcing innovation from your customer: how multinational enterprises use Web platforms for virtual customer integration, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
  • 2010
    Harnessing a network of experts for competitive advantage: technology scouting in the ICT industry, R&D Management
  • 2009
    Creating growth with externalization of R & D results-the spin-along approach, Global Business and Organizational Excellence
  • 2009
    Opening up for competitive advantage - How Deutsche Telekom creates an open innovation ecosystem, R&D Management

Research Areas

  • Business And Management (1503)

Contact René for

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