Prof. Dr. Moritz Göldner is an assistant professor for data-driven innovation at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). In his research Moritz aims to explore the intersection of innovation management, healthcare and engineering with a focus on data-driven innovation. One of his focus topics are digital health applications (DiGA) and their impact on the digital health care system in the future. Furthermore, he is studying the interactions of sustainability and healthcare and the data streams that connect the two. Lastly, he aims at further exploring how big dataset might help to design user-centric innovation in the future.
Prior to his position at TUHH, Moritz was an innovation consultant for user-centric innovation in healthcare and a co-founder of Innovatinghealth.care . He is a biomedical engineer and innovation scholar with significant experience in developing digital and non-digital projects in the healthcare sector. His passion on this topic is rooted in his PhD-related research on patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals as user innovators with respect to their own unmet medical needs.

Peer reviewed journal publications

• Goeldner, M. and Gehder, S. (2024), Digital Health Applications (DiGAs) on a Fast Track: Insights From a Data-Driven Analysis of Prescribable Digital Therapeutics in Germany From 2020 to Mid-2024. Journal of Medical Internet Research 26:e59013.
• Kruse, D.J., Goeldner, M., Eling, K. and Herstatt, C. (2019), Looking for a Needle in a Haystack: How to Search for Bottom‐up Social Innovations that Solve Complex Humanitarian Problems. Journal of Product Innovation Management 36(6), 671–694.
• Perisic,T., Zhang, Z., Foehr, P., Hopfner, U., Klutz, K., Burgkart, R.H., Slobodianski, A., Goeldner, M., Machens, H., Schilling, A.F., (2017) Biodegradable poly lactic acid-co-glycolic acid scaffolds as carriers for genetically-modified fibroblasts. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0174860.
• Goeldner, M., Herstatt, C., & Tietze, F., (2015) The emergence of care robotics—A patent and publication analysis. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 92, 115-131.

Books and book chapters

• Goeldner, M. (2021). Patients and Caregivers as Developers of Medical Devices - An Empirical Study on User Innovation in the Healthcare Sector. Springer Wiesbaden.
• Barth, T., Goeldner, M., and Spitzenberger, F. (2021). Einfluss von regulatorischen Anforderungen auf Innovationen in der Medizintechnik am Beispiel der europäischen Medical Device Regulation „MDR “ und des nationalen Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetzes „DVG “. In Zukunftsfähigkeit durch Innovation, Digitalisierung und Technologien 223-252. Springer Gabler, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Conference papers

• Baum, A., Goeldner, M. and Reinecke P.C. (2024). Inequality in women´s health: How entrepreneurs are organizing the tilt at windmills, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Milan, Italy.
• Goeldner, M. and Baum, A. (2024) Innovating by Design in Healthcare - How Healing Architecture and Digital Innovation Shape Patient Experiences Innovation & Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC), Dublin, Ireland
• Baum, A., Goeldner, M., Freyer, F., and Reinecke, P. C. (2024) Femtech Entrepreneurs Pioneering Solutions to Women´s Health: Navigating Paradox Knots at Multiple Levels Innovation & Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC), Dublin, Ireland
• Goeldner, M. (2023) How to identify and scale user innovation in healthcare? Evidence on innovative patients from a large-scale study in Germany Innovation & Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC), Lecco, Italy
• Goeldner, M. (2023) How to identify & evaluate Lead User innovation online (fast)? 20th International Open and User Innovation Conference, Hamburg, Germany
• Goeldner, M. (2023) Sustainability in Healthcare – Mission Impossible or the Next Big Thing? A Systematic Review on Single-use vs Reusable Medical Devices in the Hospital Sector 24th International CINet Conference, Linz, Austria
• Goeldner, M. and Hagen, J. (2022), How to identify and support innovative patients? Evidence on user innovation in healthcare from a large-scale study in Germany, 19th International Open and User Innovation Conference, Zürich, Switzerland
• Goeldner, M. and Kruse, D. J., (2018), One Size Does Not Fit All – An Empirical Study on Identifying Social User Innovation Using the Lead User Method, JPIM Research Forum, Chicago, USA
• Goeldner, M., Kruse, D. J., Buse, S. and Herstatt, C. (2017), Identifying social innovation using the Lead User method – An explorative case study in Indonesia, Innovation & Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC), Reykjavik, Iceland
• Goeldner, M. and Herstatt, C. (2017), The impact of user innovation on patients’ health-related quality of life – An explorative case study on medical app developers, 15th International Open and User Innovation Conference, Innsbruck, Austria
• Kruse, D. J., Goeldner, M. and Herstatt, C. (2017), Lead User method vs. Innovation contest – An empirical comparison of two open innovation methodologies for identifying social innovation for flood resilience in Indonesia, 15th International Open and User Innovation Conference, Innsbruck, Austria
• Kruse, D. J., Goeldner, M., Cooper, N., Hazeldine, S., Ferrario, G. and Herstatt, C. (2017), Linking user innovation and social innovation - An explorative case study on Lead User identification in the humanitarian sector, The 9th International Social Innovation Research Conference, Melbourne, Australia
• Goeldner, M., Herstatt, C., Canhão, H. and Oliveira, P. (2016) With a Little Help from My Friends – How Patients and Caregivers Become User Entrepreneurs in the Medical Device Sector 14th International Open and User Innovation Conference, Boston, USA
• Goeldner, M., Herstatt, C., Canhão, H. and Oliveira, P. (2016) Patients and Caregivers as User Entrepreneurs – A Case Study Analysis in the Healthcare Sector, R&D Management Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Goeldner, M. and Herstatt, C. (2015), Patients and relatives as user entrepreneurs ? A case study analysis in the healthcare sector, 13th International Open and User Innovation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
• Goeldner, M., Kaufmann, A., Paton, V. and Herstatt, C. (2014), Patients as user innovators -The case of medical smartphone applications, 12th International Open and User Innovation Conference, Boston, USA
• Goeldner, M., Kaufmann, A., Paton, V. and Herstatt, C. (2014), Are Patients a valuable Source of Innovation for R&D of Medical Devices? The Case of Medical Smartphone Applications, R&D Management Conference, Stuttgart, Germany
• Goeldner, M., Kaufmann, A. and Herstatt, C. (2013), User innovation in healthcare – what about innovative patients?, 11th International Open and User Innovation Workshop, Brighton, United Kingdom
• Goeldner M, Danner S, Rapoport D.H, Petschnik A.E, Kruse C, 2012: Translation from research to GMP-compliant manufacturing: constructing a business model for a new stem cell source. 3rd TERMIS World Congress 2012, Vienna, Austria
• Goeldner M, Herstatt C, Trzewik J, 2012: A reason why cell‐based therapies are still not commercially successful. 3rd International Conference "Strategies in Tissue Engineering", Würzburg, Germany

Further publications (without peer-review)

• Franiel, T., Reimers-Kipping, S. and Goeldner, M. (2020). Prostatakarzinom: Mit KI den Krebs früher und besser erkennen. kma-Klinik Management aktuell, 25(07/08), 84-85.
• Hagen, J. and Goeldner, M. (2020) Patientenbedürfnisse neu denken Tagesspiegel Background