Prof. Günter Faltin
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UNIVERSITY BACKGROUND
Born in 1944, studied economics in St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Tübingen from 1964 to 1968. In 1972, he received his doctorate from the University of Constance.
In 1977, he was appointed professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he established the Entrepreneurship Department. He was appointed to several years of DAAD visiting professorships in Asia, held academic lecture series and workshops in more than 20 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, India, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan.
Since 2013, he has taught as a guest professor at Chiang Mai University.
PROJECT WORKSHOP, TEEKAMPAGNE
In 1985 he initiated the company Projektwerkstatt GmbH with the idea of the "tea campaign". This company has been the largest importer of Darjeeling tea in the world since 1995, according to the Tea Board of India. Faltin is initiator (since 1992) and sponsor of the reforestation project S.E.R.V.E, which is organized locally by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for Darjeeling/India.
LABORATORY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
In 1999, he founded the Laboratory for Entrepreneurship at Freie Universität Berlin, which was adapted by the Innovation Campus Wolfsburg in 2000. He was an expert in the project Entrepreneurship in Education and Training in Russia, Ukraine of the European Training Foundation (an institution of the EU) from 2000 to 2003. He is a business angel and coach of various start-ups, including ebuero AG (since 2001).
FOUNDATION, GERMAN FOUNDER PRIZE
In 2001, he established the Entrepreneurship Foundation, which organizes the annual Entrepreneurship Summit. In 2009, he accepted the "German Founders Award" for the Tea Campaign.
PIONEER OF THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IDEA
In 2010, the German President awarded him the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as a pioneer of the entrepreneurship idea in Germany.
Tbilisi State University awarded him an honorary doctorate on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP TEACHING
Central to Faltin's teaching is the idea that entrepreneurship is now universally accessible. In contrast to business administration, entrepreneurship is a creative act. In the knowledge society, a well thought-out concept of ideas (entrepreneurial design) is more decisive for the success of a business start-up than the availability of large amounts of capital. Moreover, a start-up could be based on completed components. By the world-wide standardization of qualities and achievements in the form of components the Entrepreneur could play even in the concert of large enterprises. It is often sufficient to combine already existing components in a new way.
FOUNDING SUCCESSFULLY
Watch the keynote (only in German) „Gesucht ist der Citoyen als Entrepreneur und Künstler: Citizen Entrepreneurship” by Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin at the Entrepreneurship Summit 2017.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
GERALD HÜTHER
„Dignity: What makes us strong - as individuals and as a society”
We all want to die with dignity, but shouldn't we first live with dignity?
In his new book, brain researcher Gerald Hüther shows that dignity is not just an ethically and philosophically based human right, but a neurobiologically based inner compass that enables us not to lose ourselves in the variety of external demands and pressures in the highly complex world. It is all the more important that we learn to strengthen the perception of our own dignity. Because: Those who are aware of their dignity are not seducible.
PATRICK STÄHLER
„Starting the Right Thing. Toolkit for Entrepreneurs”
The life of an entrepreneur is about founding the right thing. The right thing is something meaningful to the customer. For example, with the help of a toolbox that can be used to build a good business model. Because Germany needs more entrepreneurs who start creative and successful companies with extraordinary ideas.
The book provides the tools so that you can develop a viable business from an idea. The book helps entrepreneurs start the right thing. The right thing is what customers love. In the right thing, the entrepreneur makes money himself and a great spirit blows through the company. Includes poster and business model card.