Sabine Brunswicker


Sabine Brunswicker is a Full Professor for Digital Innovation at Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, and the Founder and Director of Research Center for Open Digital Innovation . She is a computational social scientist with a particular focus on open digital innovation who engages with an interdisciplinary group of researchers to predict individual and collective outcomes in open digital innovation. She has written numerous research papers and books chapters on Open Innovation, and is an internationally recognized authority in the field. She chaired the World Economic Forum workshop for a session titled "Open innovation as a driver of business and economic transformation" in 2014. She is known for pioneering Purdue IronHacks, an iterative hacking initiative that encourages experiential learning at Purdue University.

Education and career

Brunswicker holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Management Sciences from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, a Master of Commerce from University of New South Wales, Australia, a Master of Science in Engineering and Management Sciences from University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, and a Phd in Engineering Sciences with highest honor from University of Stuttgart, Germany. She won an award from the publisher John Wiley & Sons and the International Society for Professional Innovation Management, ISPIM, for the doctoral dissertation from an engineer named the Best Dissertation Award in 2012.
She is currently a full professor and director of Research Center for Open Digital Innovation at Purdue University. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Digital Innovation in the School of Information Systems at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia. Until 2016, she was Visiting Professor for Digital Innovation at ESADE Business School. Prior to joining Purdue she was Head of Open Innovation at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart, Germany.
She has won numerous awards throughout her professional careers, including runner-up emerging scholar award World Open Innovation Conference, ESADE Business School, Spain, John P. Lisack Early-Career Engagement Award from Purdue Polytechnic Institute, top researcher 2012 from Fraunhofer Society due to her accomplishments in the area of open innovation.

Selected publications (book chapters)