Making sense of our connected world
Startup Law Clinic – Between Innovation and Law
There are various and sometimes surprising legal challenges that startup founders face. Often, founders do not have the specific legal know-how to estimate the importance of those challenges for the…
This is How We Will Be Watching TV in the Future – Challenges for TV in a Convergent Media World.
Thanks to the digitalisation and interconnection between various devices, we watch “TV” in the cloud today. This makes the so-called “multi-room viewing” possible and thus TV content can be accessed…
The other side of innovation platforms
Innovation platforms such as jovoto or atizo are considered to be a source for harvesting innovative ideas among creative and dedicated users. The names for those user groups are manifold…
Startup Clinics: The “Human Resources and Management Clinic”
In human resources everything revolves around the most important and valuable asset any company can have, the employees. Gary Hamel, one of the world’s leading experts on management and business…
Startup Clinics: a new service for founders
The Alexander-von-Humboldt-Institute for Internet and Society team in Berlin, in collaboration with Google for Entrepreneurs and The Factory, has recently started offering a new service for founders: Startup Clinics. What…
Marx, Engels, and 3D Printers
So, you require a spare part, a toy dinosaur for your daughter, or is it the new frame for your glasses? Why don’t you just print it? At your home….
Digital innovation and entrepreneurship
Increasingly, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are investing in digital technologies to respond to the rapid changes that are now affecting almost all sectors of life and work. Many SMEs take this step either to realign their business model, to make their processes more efficient or simply because they are forced to do so by structural change and altering customer needs. But what concrete activities and strategies do SMEs pursue in terms of digital innovation? What are the different approaches? What exactly do successful digitisation projects look like in medium-sized companies? In our dossier we get to the bottom of these and other questions.
Work in the digital age
The future of work is now. We work side by side with intelligent technologies. Does that frighten us or does it give us courage? Automation and AI are changing the world of work. How will we work tomorrow, and who gets a say? No machine can give us the answers. At least for now. The issue in focus “work in the digital age” was created in 2017 during the research project Competing and Complementing – The Relation of Co-determination and new Participatory Platforms within Companies. Among others, the research project Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Work – Implications, Opportunities And Risks currently investigates the future of work.
