Associate Professor Jochen Schweitzer
Jochen Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation and Director of Entrepreneurship at the UTS Business School. He also serves as the Faculty Director of UTS’s Executive MBA and the Bachelor of Entrepreneurship (Honours).
Trained as both an engineer and a social scientist, his work focuses on issues of strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation with a special interest in design thinking, emerging technologies and the future of work. Jochen was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) School of Design Thinking at Potsdam University. He has taught at the UTS schools of Design and Architecture, Macquarie University, Shanghai University and Sydney School of Entrepreneurship.
Prior to becoming an academic, Jochen was a Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Strategy practice. As an expert advisor, he provides insights into emerging trends, alternate perspectives and fresh ideas to a number of private and government organisations. Recent advisory roles included growing corporate innovation capabilities, developing strategic innovation performance, crowdsourcing ideas for climate adaptation in public transport, evaluating on-demand transport solutions, developing social entrepreneurship policy, and developing future of work skills and capabilities.
Profile: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Jochen.Schweitzer