Education
Blind studied economics, political science and psychology at the University of Freiburg and at Brock University in Canada.
economist university professor
Blind studied economics, political science and psychology at the University of Freiburg and at Brock University in Canada.
He is active in the fields of innovation economics and standardization. He was research assistant at the public finance department at the University of Freiburg, where he was awarded a doctorate. Blind was promoted to professor at the University of Kassel.
Since 2006 he is professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Chair for Innovation Economics.
He was also awarded the Endowed Chair in Standardisation at the Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Blind is heading the new research group Public Innovation at the Fraunhofer Institute of Open Communication Systems since April 2010.