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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

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

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

By invitation of the German Centre for Research and Innovation India (DWIH), Alexander Brem participated at a two days seminar on Frugal Innovations in Bangalore.
Together with colleagues from the Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH), both days were setup with a combination of research talks, and... Continue

On December 10th, 2018, Alexander Brem gave an invited talk on “Creative Product Development - Introduction to the interdisciplinary Innovation Lab concept” at the Center of Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM) of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore.
The Centre for Product Design... Continue

The Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) has twice as much reason to be happy: Both the Romanist Prof. Dr. Annette Keilhauer, spokeswoman of the Interdisciplinary Centre Gender - Difference - Diversity (IZGDD) and university women's representative, and Prof. Dr. Alexander Brem, he... Continue

Christine Wimschneider was invited to Brazil for joint research projects and teaching within the cooperation between the Chair of Technology Management and the Universidade de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis.
The stay contained visits to innovation parks and start-up incubators, interviews w... Continue

Alexander Brem has been appointed IEEE Senior Member. In receiving this special honor, he is joining a selected few. Less than 10% of all association members worldwide achieve this level of professional recognition.
IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advanc... Continue

The PhD project “Frugal Innovation in Latin America” of Christine Wimschneider, research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Technology Management, will be financially supported. The funding programme INNcentive aims at promoting young academics in the area of interdisciplinary empirical innovati... Continue