Prof. Dr. Matthias Baum
Professor and Chair of Business Administration XVI – Entrepreneurship and Digital Business Models, University Bayreuth
Before being appointed to the University of Bayreuth as Professor of Entrepreneurship and Digital Business Models, Prof. Dr. Matthias Baum held the Chair of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Economics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern since 2013.
Prior to that, as part of his postdoctoral work at Justus Liebig University Giessen, he played a key role in promoting start-ups there as the operational manager of the Entrepreneurship Cluster Mittelhessen.
He studied economics at ISC Paris and JLU Giessen.
Building bridges between digital start-ups and the state for a modern, digital state administration (Startups4State)
Startups4State taps into collaboration potential between digital start-ups and public administration by analysing barriers and developing models that advance digital transformation in the public sector.