Innovation and Product Management, 2015 A Holistic and Practical Approach to Uncertainty Reduction Springer Texts in Business and Economics Series

Kurt Gaubinger is a Professor of Innovation Management & Industrial Marketing at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. He is Head of the Master´s Degree Programme Mechatronics and Business Management and Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering & Environmental Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in social and economic science from the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. After teaching at the Universities of Applied Sciences Burgenland and Salzburg, Kurt Gaubinger became a full-time professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in 2005 and was named Head of Department for Innovation, Design and Industrial Marketing in 2009. In 2013 he developed the Master´s Degree Programme Mechatronics and Business Management. Prior to his career in academia he worked as a medical engineer for Siemens AG Austria and afterwards for an Austrian IT service provider as business unit manager. He presented his research at numerous conferences and has published several books and articles. His research interests include strategic innovation and product management, front end of innovation, commercialization of innovations as well as IT based innovation management.

Michael Rabl is Professor of Sensor Technology and Mechatronics at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. He is Head of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme Innovation Engineering and Management and the international Master’s Degree Programme Innovation and Product Management. He is acting as an independent expert for the European Commission for Research and Technological Development. As a senior researcher he was part of an international research group at the University of California Los Angeles working on the development of methods to cultivate algae as a feedstock for biofuels. In 2002 Michael Rabl became a full-time professor of Sensor Technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Wels, Upper Austria, and was named Head of Study of Innovation andProduct Manageme