Education
Braukmann has studied economics (including educational theory of economics), sport and social sciences at the Universität zu Köln, the Sporthochschule Köln as well as the London School of Economics and Political Science.
economist university professor
Braukmann has studied economics (including educational theory of economics), sport and social sciences at the Universität zu Köln, the Sporthochschule Köln as well as the London School of Economics and Political Science.
At the Schumpeter School, he is the head of the Institut für Gründungsund Innovationsforschung and at the same time the chair holder of the Faculty of Educational Theory of Economics, Gründungspädagogik und Gründungsdidaktik. He obtained his doctorate at the faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Universität zu Köln and habilitated in 1997 under Peter F. East. Sloane at the Faculty of Economics of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena. Upon receiving four appointments to the economic departments of the universities of Wuppertal, Stuttgart-Hohenheim and Leipzig, he took over the recently created Professorship of Educational Theory of Economics, Gründungspädagogik und Gründungsdidaktik at the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
Together with the principal of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Lambert T. Koch, he established the Institut für Gründungsund Innovationsforschung (IGIF) (jointly headed by both professors).
The current focus of work and research lies in the field of integrative promotion of start-ups and innovations. However, other areas of interest are: entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial career development, management development, as well as the development of entrepreneurial personalities and organizations.