As a partner in Boston Denmark Partnerships, Arne Hessenbruch catalyzes the international growth of business operations, especially for companies in the life sciences and in cleantech. He is deeply integrated in the nerve of innovation in Boston and has rare insight in the successful innovation environment.
His ability to deal with complex issues has provided many companies a dynamic perspective and helped them to formulate innovative strategies, create new business models and ensure successful transformations for continued growth and profitability. His vast Boston network in business, politics and academia can locate a source of relevant expertise whether it be sales channels, marketing, liability, or investment.
Arne has a background in analyzing the development of new technologies. He has written on capricious market changes over years and decades, as successive stakeholders become involved, as rival products wax and wane, as companies grow and merge, and as opportunities come and go. He has compared and contrasted technologies in different countries and examined the role of national and local cultures. With this in mind, he has followed the Boston startup scene up close for a decade and a half. He has helped teach a Masters level course on commercialization of research at MIT, helping students think about the manifold challenges a startup faces.
He holds a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (UK), and an M.Sc. in Physics from Freiburg University (Germany). He has been a research fellow at both MIT and Harvard, and has more than 100 publications to his name. Arne speaks English, Danish and German as a native, and can get by in French and Mandarin.
To contact Arne, you can email him at arne@bostondenmark.com or call him at +1 781 354 4796.
