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Mel Horwitch is Dean and University Professor at Central European University Business School, located in Budapest, Hungary.

Previously, he was Professor of Technology Management, Director of the Institute for Technology and Enterprise, former Chair of the Department of Technology Management, Founding Director of the Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, and faculty director of the CleantechExecs Executive Program at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Professor Horwitch is an acknowledged expert on entrepreneurship and innovation management. He has written extensively on technology strategy, particularly with reference to knowledge-intensive sectors (e.g. services, media, information technology, and telecommunications), global innovation, and the role of networks and cross-boundary and multi-sector endeavors in developing technology. Most recently, Professor Horwitch has focused his research on clean tech and sustainability management, global innovation (especially with regard to emerging economies), global entrepreneurship in both stand-alone and corporate venues and the future configuration of modern innovation. He developed new courses at NYU-Poly on clean tech and renewable energy innovation, services innovation, entrepreneurship, business model innovation, global innovation, managing growing enterprises and society-wide technology policy. He also has extensive executive education experience.