Dr. John Fahlteich, born 1981, graduated from the University of Leipzig with a diploma in physics in 2005. In 2010, he earned a PhD at the Technical University of Chemnitz with a thesis about thin film coating of permeation barriers. John has now 18 years of experience in Thin-Film and Nanotechnology, in particular Roll-to-Roll Coating on Plastic Web. Until September 2022, John was leader of an 18-people Research Group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP in Dresden, Germany.

In 2022, he started his own business – KETMarket – with the aim to create a Digital Open Innovation Marketplace and Single Entry Point to the European Open Innovation Ecosystems. Being a key partner in multiple Open Innovation Networks, John is well known both in research and in industrial communities shaping the European Open Innovation Ecosystem as Instrument to support SME and industry in realizing their new product and technology development faster.