Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling

Head of the Research Group:

High Technology Entrepreneurship

Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling was named to the Professorship for Innovation and Technology Management at the University of Regensburg effective July 1, 1996 and retired from this position in April 2024. Previously he had been an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Georgia, USA.

Prof. Dowling was born in 1958 in New York, USA. He studied at the University of Texas in Austin (Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with High Honors), Harvard University (Master of Science in Management and Public Policy) and University of Texas at Austin (Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration).

Since 2014 he has been the Chairman of the Board of the MÜNCHNER KREIS, a non-profit supra-national association dedicated to the impact of digitalization on business and society. http://www.muenchner-kreis.de/

Prof. Dowling is a member of acatech – the German National Academy of Science and Engineering. His research interests include the strategic management of technology, high technology entrepreneurship, and the relationships between technology, public policy and economic development.