Bio: I am a tenured Professor of Innovation & Digitalization at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), School of Management, Campus Heilbronn.

I am a researcher in the field of information systems. My research interests cover the economics of information systems, especially competition in digital markets, measuring digital transformation progress, and estimating the value created by digital technologies. As part of this, I am interested in data analytics, particularly scraping massive web data and using state-of-the-art econometric methods for causal inference.

My research has been published in leading scientific journals, including Management Science, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Operations Management. It is funded by several organizations, including the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) and the German Research Foundation (DFG), and has received several awards, including the INFORMS Information Systems Research Best Paper of the Year Award. I regularly serve as reviewer for leading scientific journals as well as organizations, including Management Science, the German Research Foundation (DFG) or the German-American Fulbright Commission, as Associate Editor for Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE), and as expert for the media and organizations, including Handelsblatt, ZEIT and acatech.

My career started at the University of Mannheim, where I studied Wirtschaftsinformatik / Information Systems (B.Sc. 2011, M.Sc. 2013). I continued for a PhD at the University of Mannheim, first by completing the graduate program at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) and then working as a research assistant at the Chair of General Management and Information Systems (Prof. Armin Heinzl) as well as the software company SAP. I graduated in 2017 with a Dr. rer. pol. (business), and stayed for two more years at the University of Mannheim as Habilitand. In 2019, I joined the Technical University of Munich as a Tenure-Track Professor, and I received tenure in 2023. As of 2023, I am also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute.

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Jens Förderer

Professur für Innovation & Digitalisierung

Technische Universität München

Bildungscampus 9

74076 Heilbronn

Germany

Email: jens.foerderer [at] tum.de