Dr. Lucas Miehé

Lucas is a senior researcher in the Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec) at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (Download D-MTEC) at ETH Zurich. He joined the group in July 2022.

In his research, Lucas focuses on business opportunities and innovation strategies at the firm level during the energy transition. He studies ecosystem designs and how firms collaborate across traditional industry boundaries. In doing so, Lucas focuses on firm strategy, innovation processes, and enabling technologies. He uses positivist and interpretive qualitative research methods.

Lucas served as guest editor for a special issue of Download Technological Forecasting and Social Change on “Digitization and Business Model Innovation in Retailing and Transport: Implications for Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability”.

Lucas holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Download University of St.Gallen. During his doctoral studies, he spent over one year as visiting researcher at the Download Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) sponsored this research stay with a Download personal research grant. Lucas received his M.Sc. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Social Sciences (focusing on Political Science), both from the Download University of Bern. For his Master’s, he spent one semester at Download Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University.

Between his Master’s and Ph.D., Lucas worked in the insurance industry and was deployed for military peace support operations in the Balkans (three tours). He serves as a non-executive board member of a local energy cooperative dedicated to renewable energies.

Lucas is originally from Basel and now living Lucerne, Switzerland. In his free time, he enjoys running, hiking, cooking, and other things ending with -ing. Learn more about Lucas through his linked profiles on Download Linktree.