Innovation Talk “Enablers and Barriers of Corporate-Start-up Collaborations”

The first Innovation Talk in 2020 was held by Dr. T. Kohler (University of Innsbruck, Founder of InnoDays, Co-Founder of InnoSchool). In his talk, Dr. Kohler shared insights on enablers and barriers of corporate-start-up collaborations, thereby presenting collaboration tools (e.g., corporate hackathon, start-up programs and accelerators) and illustrative examples from global start-up ecosystems. He concludes…

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ESTT at the Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) Conference 2020, Online

ESTT member M. Wiener contributed to the Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) Conference 2020 (online) with the paper “Cross-industry collaborations: The role of intermediaries in the team development process”. The abstract is as follows: Collaborations with organizations from other industries are advantageous as “industry-blindness” and “bounded rationality” can be overcome and ideas for breakthrough innovations can…

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Workshop on Digital Strategizing

Together with scholars from LMU Munich and Warwick Business School, ESTT member G. Reischauer organized the workshop “Processes and Practices of Digital Strategizing: Perspectives and Avenues for Future Research” Digital technologies such as platforms, big data analytics, and algorithms are reshaping how firms strategize. They are altering the strategy-making processes by rendering them less exclusive…

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ESTT at the Virtual AOM Meeting 2020

ESTT members contributed to the 2020 Virtual Academy of Management (AOM) Meeting  as follows: The Impact of Outside Partnering Opportunities on Alliance Termination Decisions, W. H. Hoffmann & N. Hampl: Paper. Nascent scholarly work has found support for the negative impact that alternative partnering opportunities exert on the stability of established alliance relationships. Still, little…

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Workshop on Organizing Innovation and Entrepreneurship

ESTT member G. Reischauer co-organized the workshop “Organizing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in and for a Sustainable Society”. The workshop discussed papers from colleauges around the globe on new forms and practices of organizing and their consequences for facilitating innovation and entrepreneurship and ultimately in building a more sustainable society.

Final Presentation of Course Business Project in SIMC Master

In June 2020, selected students from WU’s SIMC master program presented findings to partner executives as part of the business project courses. This semester’s business project focused on developing (digital) strategies for transforming industries. Equipped with several state-of-the-art project management, firm analysis, and industry analysis tools, students analyzed this focus in two phases. In the…

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ESTT at the ISPIM Innovation Conference 2020, Online

ESTT member M. Wiener contributed to the ISPIM Innovation Conference 2020 (online) with the paper “Foresight to foster crisis-driven innovation”. The abstract is as follows: In the current COVID-19 crisis, household names like LEGO, Carlsberg and General Motors and many others proved that they have the agility to turn around (temporarily) their operating business to…

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ESTT at European Geosciences Union General Assembly

ESTT member N. Hampl contributed to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly with the presentation Social acceptance of small-scale hydropower in Austria from 2015 to 2019. Here is the abstract: The research presented here is based on an extensive data set of five distinct nationally representative surveys in Austria sampling an average of 1.008 respondents…

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Paper in Technological Forecasting & Social Change on Success Factors of Collaborative Foresight Processes

ESTT member M. Wiener published a paper on success factors in the early stage of collaborative foresight processes together with a colleague in the journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Here is the abstract: Interorganizational learning and knowledge sharing among different organizations are gaining in importance-also in foresight activities. In this research, an interorganizational form…

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Master Thesis on Go-to-Market Approaches for New Products and Technologies in Capital-Intensive Industries

A student supervised by ESTT staff finished the master thesis “Go-to-Market Approaches for New Products and Technologies in Capital-Intensive Industries”. Here is the abstract: The core product sold by capital-intensive industry companies remained similar over the last decades and only required little changes. Increasingly, these companies see a need to innovate and create new products…

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