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

MPM-Benchmarking-Study 2022

Good project portfolio management must be able to cope with constant change in the economy, society, and the environment. In the 10th Multi-Project Management Study, we therefore examine how companies can increase their economic, ecological, and social success through effective project portfolio management.

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Delta real laboratory

The Darmstadt Energy Laboratory for Technologies in Application (DELTA) acts as a showcase for the urban energy transition to demonstrate interacting energy-optimized urban quarters.

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MPM-Benchmarking-Study Government

Despite the high importance of projects in the public sector, project management and ,even more so, project portfolio management in public organizations receives little scientific attention compared to the private sector. The TIM department is therefore conducting a study on the success factors of multi-project management in the public sector in cooperation with the Kompetenzzentrum (Groß-) Projectmanagement (CC GroßPM) of the Federal Office of Administration (Bundesverwaltungsamt, BVA).

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Cooperation

In various projects we work closely with our cooperation partners on joint research projects, seminars, guest lectures and theses.

If your company is interested in joint projects with exciting topics and questions in the field of innovation management, technology management and multi-project management, you are welcome to contact Prof. Dr. Kock directly.

Some cooperation partners:.

  • Bayer
  • Bosch Rexroth
  • Campana & Schott
  • DB Schenker
  • Merck
  • Siemens

Innovation Incubation Study

The Innovation Incubation Study is conducted by the Department of Technology & Innovation Management at TU Darmstadt. It examines the effectiveness of innovation support programmes – also known as accelerators, incubators, innovation centers or labs. The study addresses funding programmes of established companies from Europe, America and Asia. Learn more

Corporate foresight is the active examination of future technical, social and market-related developments of companies. Both opportunities and risks can be identified at an early stage and taken into account for strategic planning.

In these seminars, practical partners present technologies or markets that are of interest for them. The students analyze the current situation, identify factors that are determining for future developments and create different scenarios. The goal is to create a diverse vision of the future that challenges the current corporate culture and shows room for action.

Involved practitioners:

  • Airbus
  • Entega
  • Evonik
  • Heag Mobilo
  • Merck
  • Riese & Müller
  • Schenker

Sometimes there is an idea for which the future development is not known. This can be both a technology, an unmet customer need, or a challenge that promises solved market potential.

Companies present such a challenge to the students. In teams, the students deal with the idea and elaborate it into business models.

Involved practitioners:

  • Airbus
  • Continental
  • HYPE
  • Merck
  • Sony

The department has been developing its expertise in the analysis and optimization of multi-project management for years. In seminars, different approaches are analyzed theoretically and evaluated practically.

  • Decision-making culture in cooperation with Campana & Schott
  • Risk management with Campana & Schott, Hermes, Merz, Sanofi, and SBB
  • Interview- and data-based evaluation of digitalization and agility at corporate partners with Miles & More, KfW, DZ Bank, DAW, TenneT, and Symrise

In cooperation with Merck, the IT-driven ideation process was analyzed on the basis of interviews. Both internal and external stakeholders were therefore interviewed individually in order to evaluate existing structures and identify potential for improvement.

In this seminar, students explore how agile practices (such as sprints, daily scrums, time-boxing, etc.) can be implemented in organizations in a way that smoothly supports development processes while reducing unnecessary workloads for employees.

In addition to practical seminars, there is the possibility of theoretical approaches to topics. Here, students receive a selection of scientific papers, discuss them and derive a research question based on them. In this way, literature-based implications for practice can be generated. This format is very well suited to approach for example processes of innovation management.

Previous topics:

  • How should Incubators be designed?
  • Business Model Innovation in interactive innovation forms (e.g. crowdsourcing, open innovation)
  • Design Thinking
  • Influences of Green Innovation
  • Dealing with radical innovation
  • Influences of gamification on innovation management
  • Management of collaborations and project portfolios

A network consists of two nodes that are connected by a common attribute. Depending on the data basis, social networks or knowledge networks are emerging, which have a strong influence on innovative behaviour. In research and teaching, the Department of Technology and Innovation Management deals with the analysis of different complex networks.

In this seminar, students learn theoretical basics about network analysis and then apply methods to identify trends on real data sets. This will give them a first impression into the preparation of data with Python and sharpen their scientific skills.