René Mauer holds the Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at ESCP Europe, Berlin campus. He is the academic head of the Executive Master in Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership (EMDIEL), of the MIM specialization in entrepreneurship (Option E) on the Berlin campus, and he also shares the academic lead of U-School, the entrepreneurial leadership certificate programme for executives at ESCP Europe. Prior to joining ESCP Europe he was Assistant Professor at RWTH Aachen, where he worked in the fields of entrepreneurship, start-up and growth management and led the university’s start-up centre. 

His area of expertise is entrepreneurial decision-making in venture and corporate contexts. In practice projects he has been working together with SMEs and larger companies such as BASF, BMW, Deutsche Post DHL or P&G. René has worked for 3M, in start-ups and in management consulting. He co-owns a family business, co-founded a technology-start-up and was involved in a variety of other venture projects, one of which is the expert network Effectuation Intelligence that he is a partner of.

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Media

2023

SECKLER, C., R. MAUER

Die Management-Forschung muss näher an die Praxis

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Media

2023

SECKLER, C., R. MAUER

Letter: Companies are looking to management researchers for answers

Financial Times

Academic Articles

2022

BRAUN, S., R. MAUER

Market of Makers – How to Promote Corporate Entrepreneurship with an Effectuation Intervention

LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Academic Articles

2022

NIESCHKE, S., R. MAUER

Let’s have a chat!”: A Field Study on Relational Governance in the Evolution of New Venture-Accelerator Relationships

VENTURE CAPITAL

Academic Articles

2022

TIGGES, M., C. IPERT, R. MAUER

Leveraging Design Thinking towards the Convergence of AI, IoT and Blockchain: Strategic Drivers and Human-Centered Use Cases

LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Academic Articles

2021

DRAGON JIANG, Y., C. STRAUB , K. KLYVER, R. MAUER

Unfolding refugee entrepreneurs' opportunity-production process — Patterns and embeddedness

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING, Vol. 36, Issue 5

Academic Articles

2021

NIESCHKE, S., R. MAUER, S. SARASVATHY

Gestation in new technology ventures: Causal brakes and effectual pedals

JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Academic Articles

2021

SECKLER, C., R. MAUER, J. VOM BROCKE

Design Science in Entrepreneurship: Conceptual Foundations and Guiding Principles

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING DESIGN, 1 (1-2)

Chapters

2021

MAUER, R., M. FASCHINGBAUER, S. READ

Effectuation-Forschungsergebnisse

In: Effectuation: Wie erfolgreiche Unternehmer denken, entscheiden und handeln, Michael Faschingbauer Schäffer-Poeschel

Academic Articles

2020

SZAMBELAN, S., Y. DRAGON JIANG, R. MAUER

Breaking through innovation barriers: linking effectuation orientation to innovation performance

EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 38(3), 425-434