Prof. Dr. Rafaela Kraus
Professor of Leadership and Corporate Management
University of the Bundeswehr Munich
biography
Prof. Dr. Rafaela Kraus is Professor of Leadership and Corporate Management at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology transfer.
She is also actively engaged in fostering entrepreneurship in practice and has contributed to building an ecosystem in Munich that supports technology transfer in Dual-Use, DefTech, and SpaceTech start-ups across Europe.
Among other initiatives, she founded founders@unibw, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship at UniBw M, as well as the SpaceFounders Accelerator.
Prof. Kraus sees herself as a bridge-builder between academia, the public sector, and industry. She chairs the Working Group on Defense Industry and Innovation at the Munich Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) and serves as advisory board member of the Defense Incubator NRW.