Sauermann, Henry
Henry Sauermann is Professor of Strategy at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin. He earned his PhD at Duke University and previously served as associate professor and PhD Coordinator at the Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
One stream of Henry’s research explores the role of human capital in science, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Among others, he studies how scientists’ motives and incentives relate to important outcomes such as innovative performance in firms, patenting in academia, or career choices and entrepreneurial interests. In a second stream, Henry studies non-traditional innovative institutions such as crowdsourcing and citizen science. Among others, he investigates how crowd involvement in science can help advance research productivity and broader societal impacts, and what roles artificial intelligence can play in crowd science projects.
Henry was appointed as a research associate at the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research and is a visiting scholar at the Lab for Innovation Science at Harvard. His work has been funded by, among others, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation. He has published in a wide range of academic journals including Management Science, Organization Science, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Henry has also been invited to serve in various editorial positions, on a National Academies committee, and on scientific advisory boards.