Marc Philipp Schulze

Consultant

Kontor: Tyskland

E-post: marc.schulze@technopolis-group.com

Dr Marc Schulze works as a Consultant in the Technopolis Berlin office. During his professional career, he has acquired extensive expertise as analyst, advisor and manager in education and skill development, research and innovation as well as urban and regional transformations. He has developed a broad set of methodological skills (qualitative and quantitative methods, case studies) and is familiar with working in international contexts (UK, Poland, Malaysia and Singapore).

Before joining Technopolis, Marc worked as the personal advisor and officer of the president of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he took a practical dive into daily university and science management as well as higher education policies and politics. When working at a Leibniz Institute and several German universities (Freiburg, Munich, Hamburg), Marc taught courses and successfully published in highly ranked academic journals as well as contributed to transfer events and reports of, e.g., the MENA Higher Education Leadership Forum, the British Council or the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Prior to this, he gained experience in a regional and urban development agency and in the management of academic mobility programmes. Marc is a trained geographer and political scientist (University of Freiburg, Strasbourg, Sheffield) and holds a PhD in economic geography (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Currently, Marc is part of the ‘DATIpilot 360° Monitoring’ team, analysing and helping tackle obstacles in the transfer of knowledge and innovation. The Technopolis team monitor the implementation and effects of the experimental funding lines of DATIpilot, a programme by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research that prepares the founding of the German Agency for Transfer and Innovation (DATI). Furthermore, Marc is the project manager of the Technopolis evaluation of the Carl Zeiss Foundation’s (CZF) funding programmes ‘CZS Transfer’ and ‘CZS Breakthroughs’. The aim of the project is to assess the results and impacts of the grants and funded research, which mostly comes from STEM disciplines. Here, Marc brings in his own interdisciplinary background and his work on regulation and embeddedness of research ecosystems, consequently contributing to a higher effectiveness and impact of research and funding.