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Christian Zagel
Teaching and research areas
- Innovation techniques and methods
- Innovation management
- Human-machine interaction
- Consumer Experience Management
- Digital transformation
- Usability & User Experience
- Service management
- Gamification
- Self-service systems
- Human Enhancement/Human Augmentation
- Rapid prototyping
Functions
At the university
- Head of the Science and Culture Center
- Program Director Master ZukunftsDesign – Innovation.Entrepreneurship.Design.
- Professor of Innovation Techniques and Methods in the Master’s program Future Design
- Research officer for the Master’s program in Future Design
- Representatives of the professors on the Wiku Council
Short vita
- since 2023: Professor of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Digital Future Technologies
- 2017 until 2023: Professor of Innovation Techniques and Theories at Coburg University of Applied Sciences
- 2011 to 2020: Senior Manager IT Innovation & Technology at the adidas Group
- since 2001: Founder and owner of Technix Trading Company
- 2009 to 2016: Research assistant at the Chair of Information Systems, esp.
in the service sector at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg - 2015: Doctorate at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
He has received several awards for his research and practical projects:
- 2016: Fürth Ludwig Erhard Prize: Audience Award
- 2016: Landmark in the Land of Ideas
- 2016: Industry Award BEST OF 2016, Research & Development category
- 2015: AHFE/HSSE Best Paper Award
- 2015: Landmark in the Land of Ideas
- 2015: Science Award of the EHI Retail Institute, GS1 and the Academic Partnership ECR Germany
- 2014: APEX Award Gold, Retail category
- 2013: Cannes Lions, 1x Gold, 1x Silver, 3x Bronze
- 2013: CeBIT Innovation Award, 3rd place
