Dr. Dominik Domnik

Dr. Dominik Battiste Domnik is the current co-lead and managing director of the LMU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. He studied Business and Economics at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, and received his PhD from St.Gallen and the Stockholm School of Economics. He worked for a Swiss family office when he was asked to lead MyHandicap Foundation as CEO.He was strongly involved setting up the Center for Disability and Integration (CDI-HSG) at the University of St.Gallen which was inaugurated by FPONTUS Bill Clinton.

Later Dominik co-founded the Zurich-based Social Entrepreneurship Initiative & Foundation (seif), a capacity building organization for social ventures. Dominik was social entrepreneur in residence with the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt and sat on the advisory board of the Global Social Entrepreneurship Network (GSEN).

Before joining LMU IEC he was executive director of the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie (SEA), a joint initiative by the four university-based entrepreneurship centres in Munich. Dominik served on numerous juries and boards of entrepreneurship competitions or research committees and is a senior lecturer for social finance, organizational behaviour, and sustainable entrepreneurship.

Curriculum Vitae

LMU Munich, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, since 07/2022 Managing Director

01/2020 – 07/2022 Lead Community & Network

3D Consulting

Since 07/2011 Management Consulting, Impact Entrepreneurship & Foundation Management

Founder & Managing Director
Social Entrepreneurship Akademie (SEA)

Head of Corporate Development / Managing Director

07/2011 – 12/2019

Research Focus

• Impact Entrepreneurship
• Social Finance, Impact Investing & Philan
• Start-Up Creation, Knowledge Transfer & Growth

Selected publications

Spanjol, Jelena; Rosa, Aaron; Schirrmeister, Elna; Dahl, Philipp; Domnik, Dominik; Lindner, Max; De la Cruz, Marcelo & Kuhlmann, Jan-Frederic (2023). The potential of futures literacy for impact-oriented business schools. In: Futures, Bd. 146, 103084

Open Access: The potential of futures literacy for impact-oriented business schools (uni-muenchen.de)

Domnik, Domnik, Werner, Katja, Birlbauer, Michael & Julia Ochsenmeir (2021). München als wachsender Hotspot für Innovationen und Entrepreneurship. Ein Whitepaper zur Betrachtung des Munich Innovation Ecosystems. Hg. Frizzi Engler-Hamm & Matthias Notz, MUC-Summit GmbH.

Dominik, Domnik, Doerner, Anne & Vrany, Anja. (2019). Gemeinsam mehr Wirkung: Fünf Prinzipien erfolgreicher Social-Impact-Kooperationen. (pp 25-37) in: Kraemer A., Edinger-Schons L. (eds) CSR und Social Enterprise. Management-Reihe Corporate Social Responsibility. Springer Gabler · 14. März 2019

Dominik, Domnik (2016). Sozialunternehmen, eine bessere Welt schaffen in "Impact Investing Vermögen wirkungsorientiert anlegen – ein Praxishandbuch".

Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen, Eberhard von Kuenheim Stiftung der BMW AG, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt (Hg.).

Domnik, Dominik (2015). Integriertes Reporting und integrierte Bilanzierung (280-292), in Karl Peter Sprinkart "Nachhaltigkeit messbar machen". Walhalla Fachverlag, Regensburg.

Domnik, Dominik. 10 Fakten zu Social Entrepreneurship. Die Stiftung 2013 (6): 71 · 24.

Domnik, Dominik (2007). Business unit buy-in on cost-cutting. Bamberg, Difo (Diss. Univ. St. Gallen, 2007.

Spoun Sascha & Dominik Domnik (2004). Erfolgreich studieren. Ein Handbuch für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler. Pearson Studium.