Research

At this year’s R&D Management conference, held at Pablo Olavide University in Seville from 19th to 21st June, Lauren Mackintosh and Hannah Altenburg presented two research papers on behalf of the Chair of Industrial Management. Under the theme of "Responsible and Responsive Innovation for a Bett...

We are very pleased to announce that our study "University Knowledge Inside: How and When University-Industry Collaborations Make New Products More Attractive to Consumers" has now been published in the renowned Journal of Marketing, ranked as A+ Journal. This very comprehensive study was conducted ...

On May 10th, Prof. Voigt attended a high-ranked meeting with Saudi Arabia‘s Deputy Minister for Education for Universities, Research and Innovation, Dr. Mohammed bin Ahmed Al-Sudairi in Berlin. In a personal consultation, Prof. Voigt announced the intention of FAU to strengthen the cooperation with ...

We are pleased to announce that our article has been published in the European Journal of Workplace Innovation on March 31st. The Journal of European Workplace Innovation is an academic journal that publishes research on innovation and workplace development. The authors of this paper, Dr. Oscar P...

On March 28th, Martin Meinel, Tobias Eismann (both Creativity Lab @Siemens AG), Sebastian Fixson (Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs & Innovation @Babson College, USA) and Kai-Ingo Voigt published a chapter on “Design Thinking and the Role of Problem Framing” in the brand new “Res...

We are very pleased to announce that our study "Balancing privacy and communication in activity-based workspaces: a longitudinal study" has been published in the renowned Journal of Corporate Real Estate. This very comprehensive longitudinal study was conducted by the authors Dr. Marc Rücker, Dr....

Prof. Voigt and the Chair of Industrial Management proudly announce the publication of our latest research on Industry 4.0 in the renowned International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications. The article “The transformation of supply chain collaboration and design through Industry 4.0”,...

On December 1st, the BMBF-funded Project BIOTEXFUTURE started into the next period, TransitionLab3. The vision of BIOTEXFUTURE is to transform the entire textile value chain from petroleum-based to bio-based. Within the innovation space, the role of the Chair of Industrial Management at FAU is to ex...

Prof. Voigt and the whole Chair of Industrial Management congratulate Dr. Lukas Maier for receiving this year’s STAEDTLER Stiftung Doctoral Thesis Award. Lukas received the award for his dissertation “A Consumer Perspective on Open Innovation.” In his dissertation, Lukas examined how firms’ open inn...

The industrial sector is an economic organizational form, providing us with products and increasingly with services. In the approximately 250 years since it was founded, the industrial sector has changed constantly. For some time now, "digitalization" and "sustainability" have been important drivers...