Deputy Head of Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and Foresight

Coordinator of Business Unit Strategies for Material Technologies

Coordinator of Business Unit Management of Innovations and Technologies

Studies of civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart. 1999-2004 researcher at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Leipzig. From 2000 until 2004 he was a lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe and had a teaching assignment for “building costs estimation”. His main research focus was in the area of construction project management, in which he was awarded his doctorate in 2004. In 2005 Ralph Seitz founded a private company limited by shares whose CEO he remained until 2008. The company´s main activities have been in the area of construction project management with renewable energy systems and real estate consulting.

Since 2008 project manager in the Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and Foresight. Since 2010 Coordinator of the Business Unit Strategies for Material. Since 2012 Deputy Head of Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and Foresight. Since 2013 Coordinator of the Business Unit Management of Innovations and Technologies

• Innovation System Analyses, strategic and policy recommendations regarding material technologies
• Foresight
• Innovation and Technology Management

Molecular Sorting – Szenarien für die Welt von Übermorgen, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 2012. Kompetentbroschüre-Molecular Sorting

Seitz, R., Isenmann, R., Thielmann, A., Gausepohl, R. (2009): Synchrotron - Studie zur Kostenbetrachtung von Photonenquellen und deren Beitrag zum Innovationsprozess. Förderkennzeichen 05E08AKA; Abschlussbericht an das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF).

Seitz, R. (2004): Entwicklung eines Referenzvorgehensmodells zur Erstellung eines Bewertungssystems für die Planung von Rechenzentren, Universität Leipzig

Seitz, R., Gehbauer, F., Weinmann, M. (2004): Analysis of energy costs impact on bid estimation, Institute for technology and management in construction, University Karlsruhe

Seitz, R., Gehbauer, F., Börkircher, M. (2001): Evaluation model on real estate investments and implementation in a stakeholder value concept, Institute for technology and management in construction, University Karlsruhe

Seitz R., Gehbauer, F. (2000): Technology and Management in civil engineering part I: business economics, building construction, turn key projects; Institute for technology and management in construction, University Karlsruhe

Seitz, R., Gehbauer, F. (2000): Technology and Management in civil engineering part II: civil and underground engineering; Institute for technology and management in construction, University Karlsruhe

Seitz R. (1999): Gebäudemanagement fasst Fuß bei Produktionsunternehmen, erschienen im Leipziger Annual Civil Engeneering Report (LACER) Nr.4, Hrsg.: Institut für Massivbau und Baustofftechnologie, Universität Leipzig.

Seitz, R. (1998): Gebäudemanagement im verarbeitenden Gewerbe, Institut für Baubetriebswesen der Universität Stuttgart.