B.A. Media and Event Management
Background
Starting with his studies in the field of economics Boris Alexander Becker holds a Bachelor of Business Administration. He proceeded with Master studies in the field of political sciences including elements of macroeconomics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen (Germany). Against this background Boris Alexander Becker continued with a foreign stay at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), where his idea for the dissertation topic in the field of International Political Economy was born. He fulfilled his doctoral studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) with focus on innovation studies about supportive conditions for knowledge transfer between higher education institutions and enterprises. Simultaneously he worked at the Institute of Educational Science and Media Research at the FernUniversität in Hagen for several years. As fixed term professor he gave lectures mainly in the field of quantitative as well as qualitative empirical methods. In addition, Boris Alexander Becker acquired professional experience as Co-Manager in a medium-sized enterprise with main responsibility for the Online-Business and later as a Project Manager at a management consultancy.
Teaching
- Digital Transformation
- Media Management
- Event Economics
Research and teaching focus
- Media supported learning and knowledge-transfer processes
- Research and collaboration processes between higher education institutions and enterprises
- Digital platform economics and knowledge platforms
- Open Innovation
Curriculum Vitae
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Higher Education
2008-2014 Ruhr-Universität Bochum: graduation as Dr. rer. soc., topic: “Network versus Hierarchy. Strengths and weaknesses of innovation policy in middle-income countries by means of a comparison between Chile and Mexico
2003-2007 Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen: Master of Arts in Comparative Research of Politics
1999-2003 University of Applied Sciences “FH Oekonomie und Management (FOM)”, Essen, in cooperation with Hogeschool Zeeland, “Diplom-Kaufmann (FH)” / Bachelor of Business Administration
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Professional Experience in the academic sector
since 11/2018 Media University of Applied Sciences, Cologne: Professor in the Department of Economics
2015-2017 FernUniversität Hagen: Fixed-Term Professor
2011-2013 FernUniversität Hagen: Research Fellow
2009-2011 FernUniversität Hagen: Graduate Assistant
2008-2009 Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Lecturer
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Professional Experience in the private sector
2017-2018 IFGE Innovation Research and Consultancy, Berlin: Project Manager
2014-2015 Waffen-Becker, Hagen: Co-Manager
2007-2009 Waffen-Becker, Hagen: Co-Manager
1999-2000 Bayer AG, Leverkusen: activities in the departments Marketing, Procurement, Finance and Planning/Controlling within the Apprenticeship as Industrial Manager
Publications
Publications and Conference Papers
Becker, B. A., & Eube, C. (2018). Open innovation concept: integrating universities and business in digital age
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 4(1), 12. doi.org/10.1186/s40852-018-0091-6
Becker, B. A. (2017, July).
Open Innovation in the digital age. New options to close the gap between universities and companies? Presented at the OUI Conference (The 15th International Open and User Innovation Conference), Innsbruck (Austria).
Becker, B. A. (2016). The current role of innovation policy for the competitiveness of Chilean enterprises with focus on university-industry collaboration
(pp. 880–889). doi.org/10.21125/inted.2016.1202
Becker, B., & Eube, C. (2015, October).
Network versus Hierarchy. The Governance of Knowledge-transfer within University-Business Collaboration. Presented at the EADTU Conference 2015 Transforming higher education in the 21st century; ‘Innovating pathways to learning and continuous professional education’, Hagen.
Becker, B. A. (2014). Netzwerk versus Hierarchie. Stärken und Schwächen der Innovationspolitik in Schwellenländern anhand eines Ländervergleichs von Chile und Mexiko. Bochum. Retrieved from http://www-brs.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/netahtml/HSS/Diss/BeckerBorisAlexander/
Memberships
2016/2017: Member Scientific Advisory Board (9th + 10th annual International
Conference of Education, Research and Innovation)