Jan Kinne
CEO at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Kinne is a scientific entrepreneur and CEO with eight years of experience turning web-scale data into actionable market intelligence through ISTARI.AI, a platform analyzing 40 million organizations for real-time insights. Combining a PhD in Geoinformatics and research roles at ZEW and Harvard, he blends rigorous academic methods with product-focused AI and web intelligence engineering. As co-founder and "data wizard" he has guided the company from research prototypes to a trusted provider for businesses, public decision-makers, and researchers. His work bridges innovation economics and applied data science, pioneering web-based indicators for scouting, competitive intelligence, and innovation tracking. Based in Mannheim, Germany, he remains active in forecasting and expert AI panels, applying foresight methods to anticipate technology and market shifts. Colleagues would note his uncommon mix of deep geospatial expertise and hands-on startup leadership that makes complex web data genuinely usable.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Geography, Visiting Student Geography at Loughborough UniversityCGA Associate Associate at Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) of Harvard University, CGA Associate Associate at Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) of Harvard University at Harvard UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Geography (Geoinformatics), Master of Science (MSc) Geography (Geoinformatics) at Heidelberg UniversityDr. rer. nat. (PhD) Geoinformatics, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Geoinformatics at Universität Salzburg
German, English, French
Github Skills (7)
scrapy10
python10
webscraping10
scrapyd10
crawling10
command-line2
geospatial1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JanKinne/ARGUS
May 2018 - Nov 2020
ARGUS is an easy-to-use web scraping tool. The program is based on the Scrapy Python framework and is able to crawl a broad range of different websites. On the websites, ARGUS is able to perform tasks like scraping texts or collecting hyperlinks between websites. See: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03726-9
Contributions:12 releases, 3 reviews, 126 commits in 2 years 6 months
pythonscrapywebscrapingscrapingcrawling
istariAI/istariAI.github.io
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
🧙 ISTARI.AI Scrollytelling Repo.
Contributions:13 reviews, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
scrollytelling
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