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In recent years, India and Germany have emphasized innovation as a central focus of their cooperation, with universities playing a key role for research, transfer, and development.
This KIWi Policy Talk "Innovation in Indo-German Academic Exchange took place within the framework of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2025, on November 7, 13.00 – 13.50.
It invited participants to discuss the German Indian academic exchange activities with a focus on innovation with experts from Germany and India in order to develop a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges of future cooperation and to identify common ways of how academic cooperation between India and Germany can be expanded in the field of innovation.
Recent examples for academic cooperation between India and Germany can be found in the present DAAD Perspective Paper [pdf-file], which highlights the potentials of scientific cooperation with the emerging knowledge and innovation nation India and provides concrete recommendations for German higher education institutions.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Zaby works as an innovation manager at the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) in Leipzig, Germany. Prior to that he served two terms as the President of the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), one of Germany’s large public universities of applied sciences. He initially worked as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company in Munich and Zurich. Subsequently, he was Chief Financial Officer of a biopharmaceutical company with operations in Germany and the USA. He teaches International Management, Innovation and Technology Management as well as Entrepreneurial Finance. After studying business administration in Bayreuth and San Diego, he earned his doctorate at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Suman Chakraborty is Director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and a renowned researcher in microfluidics and biomedical engineering. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and has received multiple national innovation awards.
Prof. Dr. Tessa Flatten is Professor of Technology Management at TU Dortmund. Her research focuses on innovation management, entrepreneurship, and international management, with a particular interest in how organizations foster creativity and knowledge transfer across borders.
Dr. Katja Lasch is Head of Division Transregional Scholarship Programmes at the DAAD. Until this year, she was the Director DAAD Regional Office New Delhi, India, promoting innovation-oriented partnerships between higher education institutions.
Dr. Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz is Head of Division Technological sovereignty and innovation at Germany’s Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and has extensive experience in science management and strategic research policy.
