Prof. Dr. Leo Brecht

Technology and Innovation

Person hält digitale Weltkugel mit globalen Wirtschaftssymbolen vor Laptop.

We provide pioneering insights and practice-oriented solutions that equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills, while supporting companies in enhancing their innovative capacity and effectively harnessing technological advances. Our goal is to bridge academic excellence and industrial application to jointly shape a sustainable and successful future.

The team led by Prof. Dr. Leo Brecht combines academic expertise with entrepreneurial spirit. Covering key focus areas of the Liechtenstein Business School, the Professorship for Technology and Innovation engages in current research projects ranging from data-driven technology foresight, the study of process and resource efficiency in relation to business performance, and the quantification of entrepreneurial resilience, to personal (co-)founding experience in the Lake Constance and Rhine Valley region. Not only in teaching but also through daily exchanges with students, research partners and practitioners, we are committed to discussing and proactively advancing technology and innovation topics of today, tomorrow and beyond.

TEXT

Data-Driven Foresight: How can technology forecasts be made using alternative data sources?
Emerging Technologies: How can big data algorithms be used to identify emerging technologies?
Innovative Capability and Business Performance: How can innovative capability be enhanced, what practices do innovative companies implement, and what is the relationship to growth and profitability?
Innovation and Sustainability: How can sustainability be implemented through innovation?
Innovation and Productivity: How can productivity be measured in the areas of assets, processes, resources and resilience, and what effect do productivity leaps have on the performance of companies?

Data-Driven Foresight: in collaboration with a leading company in the automotive industry
Data Mining in Innovation Management: a practical guide commissioned by the Swiss Association of Plant Engineering
Quantitative Identification of Innovation Leaders: a model for stock selection for a Swiss asset manager
Technological Due Diligence: for a major Swiss private equity firm
Innovation Field Analysis in Energy Solutions: for an internationally operating company from Liechtenstein
Supervision of numerous practice-oriented MBA theses in innovation, technology and product management, representing the local industry

Professional Education

Ein Mann und eine Frau betrachten gemeinsam eine große Glaswand, die mit Notizen und Diagrammen beschrieben ist. Beide wirken nachdenklich und konzentriert, während sie an einer komplexen Aufgabe arbeiten.

For more than seven years, we have successfully conducted the MBA in Technology and Innovation. The MBA in Technology and Innovation focuses on the creative development and entrepreneurial implementation of innovations to ensure the sustainable competitiveness of technology-oriented companies in the region.

MBA in Technology and Innovation

Degree Programmes

In teaching, the professorship offers a broad portfolio covering current topics in innovation, technology and product management. We align our content with the lifecycle stages of a company, from idea to start-up, and from growth to established enterprise. Our instruction is theory-based, practice-oriented and enriched with numerous real-world examples and case studies. Opportunities for theses, primarily motivated by practical relevance, complete the teaching profile.

Bachelor in Business Administration

Studierende des Bachelorstudiums Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Liechtenstein beteiligen sich aktiv an einer Vorlesung mit Fragerunde in moderner Hörsaalatmosphäre.

Master in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership

Masterstudierende im Studiengang Entrepreneurship und Management der Universität Liechtenstein arbeiten gemeinsam an einem Projekt am Laptop in moderner Lernumgebung.

Doctoral Programme in Business Economics

PhD Studierende der Universität Liechtenstein arbeiten mit Virtual Reality Technologie im Forschungslabor für Information Systems.

Success in Research and Professional Education

Since July 2024, the professorship has been conducting a joint research project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Scientific-Technical Trend Analysis on the topic of data-driven foresight.
Together with a Liechtenstein asset management firm, we are carrying out an Innosuisse project until mid-2028 entitled “Process Innovation as an Alternative Model to Factor Investing.” This project not only bridges innovation and finance but also implements the findings with our practice partner in new investment products and portfolio optimisations.

Publications

Baskerville, R., vom Brocke, J., Mathiassen, L., & Scheepers, H. (2023). Clinical research from information systems practice. European Journal of Information Systems, 32(1).
More

Schneider, J. (2024, June 11). Governance of Generative AI for Companies.
More

Research Projects

German Dialects: Document, Preserve and Learn (with the help of AI)

Erasmus

September 2025 until August 2027

The project is being realised in collaboration with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and the University of Liechtenstein. The ... More

GenAI-Natives - Educating (the next generation of) teachers on usage of generative artificial intelligence

FFF-Funding Project

September 2025 until June 2027

Objectives: What do you want to achieve by implementing the project? The project aims to enhance the understanding and effective integration of generative AI primarily in secondary education by ... More

Experimental Determination of Nonverbal Charismatic Leader Signalling via Prerecorded Stimuli: The Effect of Medium and Virtuality

FFF-Funding Project

November 2023 until December 2025 (Completed)

Charismatic leadership has emerged as a highly effective form of organizational coordination, in both the private and public sectors. The novel "signalling-approach" to charisma (Antonakis, ... More

Banking Crisis Prediction using Objective Crisis Measures and AI Methods

FFF-Funding Project

November 2023 until December 2024 (Completed)

In the past decades, a number of financial crises originated in the banking sector. Examples include the Savings and Loan Crisis in the U.S. in the 1980s/90s, the Financial Crisis of 2007/08, or the ... More

Cover mit bunten Quadraten und schwarzer Schrift

New Whitepaper on Digital Environmental Product Declarations Published

Piotr Piotrowski, doctoral candidate at the Liechtenstein School of Architecture in the Built Heritage & Upcycling Unit, has contributed to a recent whitepaper by «Bauen digital Schweiz / buildingSMART Switzerland».

27. March 2026 Architecture

Gruppe von Menschen in einem Dorf mit Holzhäusern

One Week on Site: Excursions in Architectural Education

For one week, the students worked on site in different European contexts outside the campus.

26. March 2026 University Architecture

Drei junge Menschen bauen eine Konstruktion aus Holz

Architecture students develop temporary shelters

As part of the Erasmus+ project SocioEcoHoods , 48 students and 5 instructors from the Liechtenstein School of Architecture worked together with the Bergen School of Architecture on questions of housing and housing insecurity, including in affluent contexts. In a one-week workshop, they collaborated in international teams at the intersection of design, construction and social issues.