Christina Raasch is Professor of Digital Economy at Kühne Logistics University. She holds a joint appointment with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), where she is part of the Research Center focusing on Innovation and International Competition.
Professor Raasch studied economics at the Universities of St. Gallen and Oxford and holds a doctorate in management from Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. During her habilitation studies, which she completed at TU Hamburg-Harburg, she spent 1.5 years as a visiting researcher at MIT Sloan School of Management. Before joining the KLU faculty in March 2017, she was an Associate Professor of Technology Management at Technische Universität München.
Before becoming an academic, Professor Raasch worked as a consultant at ZS Associates, advising large clients in the pharmaceutical industry. Today many of her research projects are conducted together with companies in the automotive and high tech industries and the digital economy.
In her research, Professor Raasch investigates how digitalization changes innovation processes and outcomes inside and outside established companies. Her current research projects focus on, e.g., effective idea creation and evaluation, additive manufacturing, enterprise crowd-funding, and disruptive innovation by and with customers. In her view, the digital age offers huge opportunities for co-creating value and innovation together with customers.
Christina Raasch published her research in Management Science, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Sloan Management Review. She is a Fellow of the Open and User Innovation (OUI) Society and will host the OUI Conference at KLU in July 2023.
