Peer Ederer

Prof Dr Ederer is a scientific entrepreneur and an entrepreneurial scientist. As a scientist in strategic management, he researches, publishes and teaches on the links between innovation, human capital and economic growth. As entrepreneur in his company Africa Enablers, his commercial focus is on creating sustainable and cost effective energy solutions for the African continent.

In science, Prof Ederer has researched extensively on strategic choices arising from innovation, human capital formation and economic growth. He has demonstrated these links with business case studies and empirical analyses for individuals, business and regions on all continents. At Innovation & Growth Academy and Zeppelin University he is director of the HUGIN Center, and has conducted research projects and executive teaching assignments on innovation and growth since 1998. From 2012 to 2015 he was project director of the EU-funded LLLight’in’Europe research project, leading a consortium of eight globally leading research universities on Lifelong Learning, Innovation, Growth and Human Capital Tracks. (more at lllightineurope.com) This project follows four widely disseminated policy briefs on human capital and university systems for the Brussels-based think tank Lisbon Council, while he was director for its Human Capital Centre there. Until 2013 he held the post of scientific director for EFAS at Dutch Wageningen University. His analyses are frequently consulted by business leaders and senior policy makers at all levels of government.

Prof Ederer studied business administration at Sophia University in Tokyo and at Harvard Business School in Boston. He completed his PhD at the University of Witten Herdecke in Germany. He began his career as financial trader at Deutsche Bank, followed by four years at McKinsey & Company.