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Profile
Dr. Reinhard Willfort began his career as an apprentice in the IT industry. Part-time he later studied telematics and economics and received his doctorate in 2000 at the TU-Graz with Award. In 2001 he founded the innovation forge on the basis of his dissertation isn-innovation service network. He founded 6 more companies and is responsible for many Top companies in strategic innovation management. Willfort is a specialist book author, Author of more than 60 publications and lecturer at several universities. He was authoritative the establishment of the Master's course in Innovation Management at the Danube University Krems is involved in this project and still looks after it today. As a crowdsourcing pioneer he founded 2009 the first Austrian Open Innovation Platform Neurovation.net and 2012 the first Austrian Crowd Investing Platform 1000x1000. He is a founding member and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the European Crowdfunding Network, based in Brussels.