Research

Stephen is the director of the Energy Business Innovations focus area at Stanford Graduate School of Business, techno-economic and policy lead for the Bits & Watts and the StorageX Initiative within Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy, and a senior fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. His work examines the organization of innovation and how technology and policy coevolve to influence the economic attractiveness of advanced energy and environmental solutions. He advises academic, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations on strategies for clean technology deployment. Within his current portfolio, he explores policy, solution diffusion, and business model innovation regarding carbon emission reduction and removal technologies in the energy and industrial sectors. Stephen holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a PhD Minor in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

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Ann-Kristin is Associate Professor of Management at the Institute for Strategy and Management at the University of St. Gallen. Her research focuses on how firms transform from a traditionally closed innovation model to a model of open innovation and how firms can apply open innovation to accelerate their ‘net-zero’ strategies. This new model of open innovation is particularly relevant in the energy sector, in which innovation is becoming increasingly distributed and requires a collective effort from different actors in an innovation ecosystem. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University. Prior to her appointment at the University of St.Gallen, she held a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Business Innovation within the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior researcher position at the Group for Sustainability and Technology at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich.

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Lukas Falcke is a Research Associate and doctoral student at the Institute for Strategy and Management at the University of St. Gallen. In his research, he combines insights from information systems management (e.g., digital technology architectures, digital platforms) and collaborative innovation (e.g., innovation ecosystems, platform ecosystems) to investigate how firms co-create digital and low-carbon innovations. Prior to his work at the University of St. Gallen, he has been a research assistant at the group for sustainability and technology at ETH Zurich, a visiting researcher at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has gained practical experience in digital strategy as a consultant and data scientist at McKinsey and UBS Switzerland.

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