Christoph Koller

Christoph is a co-founder and managing partner of Görgen & Köller GmbH (G&K), a science consultancy company based in Germany. He supports research institutions which intend to turn their research into innovation and startups. He has developed and applied innovation evaluation and management methodologies as well as innovation processes which find widespread use by his clients. Christoph conducted various projects in innovation management and knowledge transfer with major research facilities from Fraunhofer Society, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Leibniz Association, and universities. His work is focused on creating innovation and impact of social sciences, humanities and the arts (SSHA) research. Based on that Christoph is frequently invited as an expert or speaker to workshops and symposia for knowledge transfer and innovation from SSHA. He also acts as a director of the ASTP/PraxisAuril-teaching course “Knowledge Exchange in Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts”. Furthermore, he belongs to several pools of experts and evaluators on SSHA knowledge transfer in Europe, including Germany, Austria, Spain and Finland. Christoph is member of ASTP (EUR), AUTM (USA), ISPIM (EUR), TII (EUR), and TransferAllianz (DE). He established and leads a special interest group on social sciences and humanities knowledge at ASTP. Christoph is carrying a Ph.D. in Business Administration and Marketing.