Thomas Fundneider is founder and director of the boutique firm tf consulting and the innovation agency theLivingCore. He gratuated from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna. For his thesis, he spent one year in South Africa to investigate the relationship between Agenda 21 principles ("sustainability") and Urban Design. Thereafter, he studied a general MBA at the Open University Business School focusing on issues of innovation, strategy, change and creativity.
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\r\nAfter several years working in the multimedia industry, Thomas Fundneider headed a private research and development lab that developed software for the Internet and for telecommunication companies. In 2005, he started the innovation consultancy tf consulting. His focus of work is on collaborative innovation processes (open innovation, crowdsourcing, realisation of developer/designer challenges), radical innovation, design thinking, support of start-ups and the conceptualisation and realisation of innovation hubs and Enabling Spaces.
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\r\nThomas Fundneider teaches at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz and at the Upper Austria University of Applied Science in Hagenberg. He is also actively involved in several start-up activities as well as regularly evaluating ICT-projects for the European Commission. Thomas Fundneider has published various articles in international journals and books and speaks regularly at conferences.
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\r\nLink: http://tfc.at/en/About/principal.html