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On 6th of November 2019, AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA organized the ‘Africa Day’ event in Vienna. The event was funded by go-international, an initiative powered by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs and the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. Africa Day was focused on encoura... Continue

Dipl.-Vw. & Dipl.-Kfm. Carsten Guderian, lecturer at the Chair of Technology Management, was invited to give a lecture at the International Trade Fair for Ideas, Inventions and New Products (iENA).
In addition to his scientific work on patent analysis and patent evaluation at the FAU, Carsten G... Continue

Grino Water Solutions has won the 1st place at the Award of HOCHSPRUNG, the Entrepreneurship Network of Bavarian Universities. The HOCHSPRUNG Award supports the start-up dynamics at Bavarian universities. 36 start-ups from all over Bavaria had applied for the prize, which awarded innovative projects... Continue

This year's annual conference of the innovation association quer.kraft (German only) took place at the beginning of October in the premises of the youth hostel of Nuremberg Castle. A total of 130 participants from 46 different organisations were present to exchange and network on interesting questio... Continue

Dr. Nivedita Agarwal was invited as a guest speaker at the Social Innovation Summit 2019 held at Stuttgart. As a leading conference on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Germany, this two day conference attracted more than 400 attendees from across the globe.
Nivedita presented the concept o... Continue

Alexander Brem has received the Publons Peer Review Award for the third year in a row. Each year, Publons publishes a list of the reviewers who receive the most international recognition in various scientific categories.
Publons aims to make peer review a measurable indicator of researchers' expert... Continue

Issam Attalah, a guest PhD student at the Chair of Technology Management conducted research on open innovation and collective intelligence with his mentor Prof. Brem and his supervisor Dr. Petra Nylund. The research was co-presented at the Poster Day which was organized by The Nuremberg Campus of Te... Continue

We are pleased to invite you to submit to our book on “Frugal Innovation and its Implementation - Leveraging constraints for driving innovations on a global scale”.
We are interested in contributions that examine the following aspects:

Frugal Innovation as a worldwide phenomenon
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We are delighted that our Assistant Professor Peter M. Bican has been selected to support the Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI). Peter Bican will use the funds to advance his research at the interface between intellectual property rights and digitization.
The FAU offers this program with an aim at ... Continue

At the beginning of August a three-day TRIZ course took place at the Chair of technology Management. The workshop leader is Jens Hammer, who is trained as a TRIZ Master and will soon complete his doctorate under the supervision of Professor Brem.
TRIZ is a Russian method that deals with the "theory... Continue