He worked as a research assistant in the department of public finance at the University of Freiburg, where he was awarded his doctorate.
[1] Between 2010 and 2019 Knut Blind moved to the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communications Systems FOKUS in Berlin.
[5] For his lifetime achievement, he has been credited as one of the leading German economists and has been listed in the Handelsblatt-Management-Ranking since 2009, which was adopted by Wirtschaftswoche in 2018.
[6][7][8][9] In the ranking of Research.com from February 2022, he was listed under the Top 10 of the German managements scholar on basis of the Hirsch-Index.
[11] In January 2017, Makronom lists Blind on position 78 of the most influential German-speaking economists on Twitter.