Research

In research and teaching, the department focuses on the design of corporate innovation processes and systems. With the help of different empirical methods, organizational theoretical and marketing related influences on innovation activities are investigated. Essential fields of research of the department lie in the following four areas.

Innovative and complex project landscapes

  • What are the challenges in managing complex project landscapes?
  • How are innovation strategies implemented through portfolio management?
  • How do companies control dynamics in project portfolios?
  • What influences the degree of innovation in project portfolios?

Radical innovations

  • What are the special challenges in managing radical innovations?
  • How must operational innovation systems (strategy, structures, processes, culture) be designed for highly innovative projects?
  • What influence does the degree of innovation of development projects have on their success?

Corporate Innovation Systems

  • How does the interaction of formal and informal organizational levers influence the early innovation phases?
  • What influences the innovativeness of employees in the early innovation phases?

Open Innovation

  • What effects do cooperations with universities and research institutions have on the success of a company?
  • Which management activities influence the success of cooperations?
  • How is knowledge generated in communities?

Current and past research projects

Multiprojectmanagement

In a series of projects, various strategic aspects are investigated in complex project landscapes.

Reallabor Delta

Exploring a diverse stakeholder landscape and business models for energy transformation in urban areas

MPM Government

We analyze the landscape of multiple projects in the governmental sector

University-Industry Collaboration

In this project, success mechanisms of cooperation between companies and universities (UIC) will be examined in more detail and the performance of cooperation projects will be assessed.

Corporate Incubators

Analysis of drivers of corporate incubators on the culture, structure, processes and behavior within companies

Design Thinking

Design thinking in large organizations

Publications

Research contributions of the department are published on various topics in the fields of innovation management and multi-project management in leading journals, conferences and books.

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Cooperation

The Department of Technology and Innovation Management is in constant scientific exchange and regularly cooperates with leading research groups and renowned companies in joint projects.

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Research pillar Innovation & Growth

The research pillar Innovation & Growth of the Faculty of Law and Economics was founded in 2010. Since 2017, Prof. Dr. Alexander Kock has been the spokesman of the research pillar. The Innovation & Growth research pillar sees itself as a platform for the cross-departmental bundling of competencies.

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Research pillar Digital Transformation

Since 2015, the Digital Transformation research pillar of the Faculty of Law and Economics has been bundling the faculty's competencies in the various sub-themes of digitization.

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