Hendrik Send, Prof. Dr.

Dr. Hendrik Send is project leader in the research area “Internet-enabled Innovation” at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Also, he is professor at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and organiser of the master program ‘online communication’. Prior to this he studied physics, holds a diploma in Electronic Business at the UdK Berlin and did his PhD at the Universität St. Gallen about Innovation-Communities and idea generation.

Hendrik Send has two own externally funded research projects currently. In the DFG-funded project Open! he explores platforms for collaborative design of open source objects together with colleagues from the Technical University of Berlin and from the Université de Grenoble. The innogy Foundation is providing funding for the project Smart Energy User Innovation where we study opportunities of user innovation for the energy transition in Germany together with Matti Große of TU Berlin.