RED 2020 keynote speaker is Prof. Dr. Klaus Sailer, professor for Entrepreneurship at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and CEO of the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE). He´s a co-founder and in board at Social Entrepreneurship Academia and also in board at Munich Network.

Klaus Sailer holds a Ph.D. in physics. He studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and did his Ph.D. at the Research Center for Environment and Health. At Infineon AG Klaus Sailer was responsible for the project management and marketing of new semiconductor technologies. In 2000 Klaus Sailer co-founded a company with partners in the area of communication technologies and as its chairman was able to successfully establish it in the market and realised with further start up teams his innovative ideas.

His main issues are in innovation process, business modelling, networking, co-creation and societal innovations.

The topic of the keynote speech is: “The role of Universities to build an entrepreneurial eco-system – Munich case study”