Guido Baltes is a tenured professor at Constance University of Applied Sciences heading the IST Institute for Strategic Innovation & Technology Management. He teaches strategic management & innovation and entrepreneurial leadership. For postgraduate education he is faculty member of the NiTiM PhD school on Networks, IT & Innovation Management. His research deals with technology strategy, strategic innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. Currently, he focuses on entrepreneurial new business development teams as a means of ambidexterity as well as identifying success factors in entrepreneurial leadership.
Guido Baltes acts as founder and co-founder of several startup companies. Before joining the university, he was responsible for strategy and marketing in the management board of one of Germany’s top three IT services companies. He holds a MSc in Aerospace Engineering (Federal University Munich), an MBA in Strategy and Organisation (University Hagen), and a PhD in Management of Technology (Federal University Munich).