Marc Bovenschulte was born in 1967 and obtained his doctorate in biology at the University of Göttingen. He later became a member of the scientific staff of the German Bundestag, Bonn on the subjects of biotechnology, telecommunications, and general STI policy questions. He then worked as an assistant to the scientific director at the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, and as head of the scientific unit of the Forum for Science and Technology in Göttingen, focusing on the fields of bio-medicine, new media, and public understanding of science.
Since the end of 2000, he has worked at VDI/VDE-IT where he has directed the Department of Demography, Clusters, and Foresight since 2011. Dr. Marc Bovenschulte is also part of the iit-management, acting as one of the directors since 2013. The focal areas of his work are:
• Foresight and trend scouting
• Innovation capability in the context of demographic change
• The future of work, perspectives for value creation and employment
• Reciprocal effects between regional and value-creation structures