Emmanuel Muller - Fraunhofer ISI

Associate Researcher

Emmanuel Muller is economist, who specialises in innovation and knowledge economics, and the coordinator of the French-German research chair evoREG (www.evoREG.eu) at the University of Strasbourg.

He has been exploring evolutionary economics and innovation policies with the help of qualitative and quantitative methods for 25 years. He has been a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI (Karlsruhe, Germany) since 1993 and at the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA, University of Strasbourg, France) since 1992. He has held a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Kehl (Germany) since 2019.

His main research areas deal with national and regional innovation strategies, innovation in SMEs and KIBS (Knowledge-Intensive Business Services) and the evaluation of public research policies.

Emmanuel Muller works regularly for the European Commission, German Federal Ministries, French national and regional leading bodies as well as further international organizations.

In 2013 he won the UAM-Accenture Award for the best paper on innovation in services.

2016 he was involved as a senior advisor to the DG Research for the evaluation of the H2020 NMBP program (Nanotech – Materials – Biotech – Production technologies).
In 2016, he was invited as guest professor by the Tôyô University in Tokyo for a series of lectures on innovation systems and innovation management.

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Work Focus
Regional development and innovation strategies

Innovation processes within SMEs and KIBS

Knowledge economics
Academic Teaching
since 2019 professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Kehl (Germany)

2016: Invited professor at the Tôyô University (Tokyo)

Co-supervision of the French-German Master M2i (International Innovation Management), University of Strasbourg and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Invited Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg

Guest lecturer at the University of Ottawa

Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg, lectures on innovation management and quantitative methods

Guest lecturer, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IPE) Strasbourg
Publications during the ISI activity (selection)
Muller, E./Héraud, Jean-Alain (2018): Eléments de cadrage d’une évaluation ex ante des impacts socio-économiques du projet «Pour un Grenelle des mobilités» (evoREG Research Note No. 40). Karlsruhe, Strasbourg: Fraunhofer ISI, Université de Strasbourg.

Muller, E./Zenker, A./Hufnagl, M./Héraud, J.-E./Schnabl, E./Makkonen, T./Kroll, H. (2017): Smart specialisation strategies and cross-border integration of regional innovation systems: Policy dynamics and challenges for the Upper Rhine, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 35(4), 684-702.

European Commission (2017): Study on frugal innovation and reengineering of traditional techniques. Key Findings from the Final Report. Short Version. Call for Tenders PP-02381-2015. (bearbeitet durch Kroll, H./Gabriel, M./Braun, A./Engasser, F./Meister, M./Muller, E./Nowlan, O./Neuhäusler, P./Saunders, T./Schnabl, E./Zenker, A.). Brüssel: European Commission.

Kroll, H./Muller, E./Zenker, A./Berghäuser, H./Hufnagl, M. (2016): Plural Innovation – Sourcing the Creative Crowd. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer ISI.

Kroll, H./Gabriel, M./Braun, A./Muller, E./Neuhäusler, P./Schnabl, E./Zenker, A. (2016): A conceptual analysis of foundations, trends and relevant potentials in the field of frugal innovation (for Europe). Interim report to the European Commision. Brussels: European Commission, DG Research and Innovation.

Muller, E./Héraud, J.-A./Zenker. A. (2015): Knowledge Angels: Creative Individuals fostering Innovation in KIBS – Observations from Canada, China, France, Germany and Spain, International Management, 19, 201-218.

Kennedy, A./McCarthy, T./Ryan, J./Wafer, B./Muller, E./Zenker, A. (2015): Review of Irish Membership of International Research Organisations (IROs). Study for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Employment (DJEI) Ireland. The CIRCA Group Europe ltd Dublin, Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe, https://www.djei.ie/en/Publications/Review-Irish-Membership-IRO.html.

Zenker, A./Muller E./Hollanders, H. (2015): Service Innovation and Economic Performance (= ESIC European Service Innovation Centre Discussion Paper). Brüssel: European Commission.

Hollander, H./Es-Sadki, N./MacAulay, B./Muller, E./Zenker, A. (2014): European Service Innovation Scoreboard (ESIS) – Key findings. ESIC European Service Innovation Centre Report. Brüssel. European Commission.

Muller, E. (2014): Attractivités métropolitaines comparées: quid de Strasbourg? (= evoREG Research Note #28). Karlsruhe, Straßburg: Fraunhofer ISI, Burau d'économie théorique et appliquée (BETA).

Kroll, H./Muller, E./Schnabl, E./Zenker, A. (2014): From Smart Concept to Challenging Practice – How European Regions Deal with the Commission's Request for Novel Innovation Strategies (= Working Papers Firms and Regions Nr. R2/2014). Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer ISI.
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Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Muller

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