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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

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