We are very pleased to announced that the Wikipedia page about Ove Granstrand has now been published. Ove has been and continues to be an inspiration to so many students and researchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ove_Granstrand
Prof. Tietze says "Ove has been the inspiration for me to initially consider PhD studies, which I had never thought off before. I well remember attending his office hours after one of his lectures when I was a master's student in the Management of Production programme at Chalmers in 2002. This was when I asked him what might now appear as quite a naive question 'What does it take to do a PhD?'. He appeared slightly surprised by that question, but responded promptly. After a quick reflection he said one word 'curiosity'. I knew that's for me. I had always been accused of being overly curious by friends and parents. The rest is history."
Following the graduation from his master studies, Ove Granstrand recruited Frank as a research assistant on the PEX research project ("Patent and innovations for growth and welfare”) for the Swedish Government. After completion of that project, Frank returned to Hamburg, where he started his PhD studies at Hamburg University of Technology in 2005 supervised by Cornelius Herstatt, but remaining in close contact with Ove. Throughout his PhD studies he visited Gothenburg frequently, even being invited to use Ove's writing retreat, their private summer house on Orust, a beautiful island off the coast north of Gothenburg, where he spent two weeks in the summer of 2009. Prof. Tietze says "I vividly remember the many visits to Gothenburg during that period. Every time I would go for a few days and would be hugely impressed by Ove's immense knowledge. Every evening I went to bed tired by the intense but inspiring discussions we had typically lasting several hours in their home in Moelndahl."
Ove Granstrand and Cornelius Herstatt, who knew each other as both were involved in the European Instituted for Technology and Innovation Management (EITIM), then jointly co-author the foreword for Prof. Tietze's book "Technology Market Transactions", which was published in 2012. Visits to Gothenburg continued over the past 20+ years and Ove Granstrand became a mentor for Prof. Tietze. In 2019, Ove Granstrand was then appointed the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor to the IfM. During the four months he spent in Cambridge throughout two visiting periods (a third visit needed to be cancelled due to the pandemic), Ove engaged with several IfM colleagues, PhD students of the IIPM lab, enriched seminars with thoughtful comments and gave two highly inspiring Leverhulme Trust lectures.
