Ep.107: Design thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset, with guest, Dr Jochen Schweitzer

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Dr Jochen Schweitzer on design thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset.

In episode 107, The Occupational Philosophers chat with the highly curious Dr Jochen Schweitzer, a strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship researcher and education leader at UTS, Director of the Executive MBA, advisor, and author. His research, teaching and consulting focus on issues of strategy, collaboration, entrepreneurship and innovation with a special interest in design thinking, emerging technologies and open innovation. Jochen was a visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) School of Design Thinking at Potsdam University. Before joining the UTS Business School, he taught at the UTS schools of Design and Architecture and Macquarie University. Jochen is a passionate educator who has taught at universities in the UK, Japan, China, the US, Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand and won numerous awards, too many to mention. He was a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a production engineer at Volkswagen and a program manager at the Goethe Institute. Jochen is also the founder of U.lab, an interdisciplinary think tank and platform for innovation projects. Apart from his academic pursuits, Jochen is an active member of the entrepreneurship…

People in this episode

Host: The Occupational Philosophers

Guest: Dr Jochen Schweitzer

Topics covered

• design thinking
• entrepreneurial mindset
• innovation
• strategy
• education
• collaboration

Keywords

• design thinking
• entrepreneurship
• innovation
• strategy
• education
• collaboration
• UTS
• Hasso Plattner Institute
• startups

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UTS, Stanford University, Hasso Plattner Institute, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Volkswagen, Goethe Institute, U.lab

Places: UK, Japan, China, US, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand

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