Dr. Roland A. Stuerz is head of Think Tank at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation. The Think Tank collects data and conducts analyses with regard to the digital transformation for political, scientific and societal stakeholders. Its aim is to inform objectively about the digital transformation and to provide a solid base for evidence based political decision-making. Research of the Think Tank is planned to deal with all aspects of the digital transformation.
Roland Stuerz’s personal research focuses on various aspects of the use of copyright-protected creative online content by German consumers. Before joining the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation as department head, he was senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. There he also worked on various other projects dealing with digitization or providing innovation policy advice to political entities. He regularly teaches courses on innovation policy and quantitative empirical methods.
Roland Stuerz studied management with a focus on innovation management and marketing at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and at the Copenhagen Business School. He holds a diploma degree in management, a Master of Business Research and a doctoral degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. In his doctoral thesis he investigated the driving forces of industry evolution and firm survival of newly founded companies using quantitative data on the firm populations of Austrian, German, U.K., U.S. and Australian motorcycle manufacturers as well as German piano producers and their German suppliers.