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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hof university and 10th anniversary of the Bavarian Indian Center (BayIND), a long night of Science was organized on June 15, 2019 in Hof. Nivedita Agarwal, from the Chair of Technology Management was invited as a guest speaker to give a talk on ‘Frugal Innovatio... Continue

In his role as International Advisory Board member of the Research Center for Technological Innovation  Alexander Brem participated at the international innovation conference from the journal Industrial and Corporate Change (ICC), which is published by Oxford University Press.
The conference was ho... Continue

Companies have long used various approaches for organizing their employees' time for creative and routine tasks in order to improve innovative performance. Alexander Brem and Verena Utikal (Junior Professor for Behavioral Economics) examined how work schedule autonomy affects individuals' creative a... Continue

Cambridge, Imperial College London, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne: FAU has come out in front of all these prestigious universities in the Reuter’s ranking of the most innovative European universities 2019, climbing from fifth to second place. The list is topped by the Belgian university K... Continue

On April 9th, 2019, Christine Wimschneider gave an invited talk on Frugal Innovation and especially frugal product development as part of the XTalk Innovation Platform of Kathrein in Rosenheim.
With more than 660 technicians, engineers and scientists, approximately 1,500 actively used patents, pate... Continue

The team around the EcoWa project has developed an innovative solution for solar-based water desalination and treatment. The green solution enables access to clean water independent of location and grid-network, which is more efficient and cheaper than existing products. Josef Schütz and Farzaneh Ah... Continue

By invitation of the Centres for Frugal Innovation in Africa, Christine Wimschneider participated at a one-week workshop on Frugal Innovation at the Lorentz Center for Lorentz Center for Scientific Workshops in All Disciplines in Leiden.
Together with international researchers in the area of Frugal... Continue

A strategic project of the Chair of Technology Management is to initiate a digital transformation of teaching and learning activities. Therefore, all activities in this area were evaluated to find where digital technologies can help in such a transformation. The aim is to internationalize and increa... Continue

What do Indian horns, senior mobile phones and modular electric cars have in common? They are products developed specifically for a clientele and the respective context of use - frugal solutions that are sustainable, affordable and yet technologically mature.
The forum "Opportunities for New Market... Continue

Wirtschaftswoche (WiWo), a leading German business magazine, has recently published a ranking of business and management researchers. This ranking was composed in collaboration with the ETH Zurich and the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics. It is based on business administration scientis... Continue