Professor Peter Witt
Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at University of Wuppertal
Dr.Peter Witt is a Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Wuppertal as well as an Adjunct Professor at WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Bonn. He received his Ph.D. degree in business administration in 1996 at WHU, and his habilitation degree from Humboldt University in 2002.
Professor Witt’s research interests are entrepreneurship, innovation management, and corporate governance. He has published in refereed academic journals like Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Journal of Business Economics, Management International Review, and R&D Management. Peter is department editor for entrepreneurship and SME at the Journal of Business Economics.
Professor Witt supports large international corporations like 3M,Bayer, Bechtle, DeutscheBahn, DeutscheBörse, Gimborn, Fraport, Lenovo, LondonStockExchange, L’Oréal, RWE, and Vaillant in their corporate venturing activities as well as in their executive education programs. From 2008 to 2015, he was the president of the largest German speaking entrepreneurship association (FGFe.V.).
Peter enjoys teaching. He has won numerous teaching awards, e.g. the WHU Best Teacher Award in 1996, the Kellogg-WHU-EMBA Best Teacher Award in 2003, the Best Teacher Award of the Faculty for Economics at the University of Dortmund in 2008, 2009, 2010, the Best Teacher Award of the University of Wuppertal in 2011 and 2016, the Best Teacher Award of the EMBA Program at the University of Mainz in 2008, the Best Teacher Award in WHU’s Fulltime MBA Program in 2015, the Best Teacher Award in WHU’s Part-time MBA Program in 2023, as well as the Best Teacher Award in the MLB-Program of Bucerius Law School in 2020.