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Patrick Lehner
Patrick Lehner is expert on research and innovation strategies, research funding mechanisms and research and impact assessment. Patrick serves as co-director at the Open Innovation in Science Centers of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society. Before, he was Director of Administration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and headed the Research Service Center at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In his early days as a researcher he worked on national and regional innovation systems as well as on knowledge transfer between academia and economy.