Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Johann L?hn is honorary trustee of the Steinbeis Foundation. Between 1983 and 2004 he acted as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Steinbeis Foundation. Until 2006 he was Government Commissioner for Technology Transfer in the State of Baden-Württemberg. It was L?hn that built up the network of “Transfer Centers” based on a model he developed called “L?hnMethode (L°°)”. Hand-in-hand with this came the concept of transfer entrepreneurship, a cornerstone that created the Steinbeis Foundation as it is today – a global knowledge and technology transfer corporation. L?hn was born near Hamburg in 1936. After completing his physics studies, he obtained a doctoral degree at the University of Hamburg (1969). He was appointed President of the Furtwangen University of Applied Science (the FHF, known today as Furtwangen University) in 1977. In this role he headed up the 1982 Working Party for Technology Transfer under the auspices of the Baden-Württemberg Research Commission. Based on his experience and his exposure to the management of so-called technical consulting services at the FHF, L?hn developed what was to become the first integrated model aimed at transferring technology into business, based on standalone, commercial methods. It was this that led to his 1983 appointment by the Baden-Württemberg Minister-President at the time, Lothar Sp?th, as Baden-Württemberg Government Commissioner for Technology Transfer. As first Chairman of the new Steinbeis F