Making sense of our connected world
MOOC Voting “How to build a startup”
It’s been about 18 months since a new learning format has inspired academic communities around the world: the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). After years of only mildly successful e-learning…
Impressions from the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (#icis2013)
The internet is not only being increasingly used by a broader mass of people but it is also increasingly being studied. There is a growing number of research institutions dedicated to studying the internet. The field of internet science is getting denser.
European Commission publishes report on internet of things
by Uta Meier-Hahn What does politics have to take into account when ever more objects are connect to the internet? In the end of February the European Commission published its expert…
Attention, please! – A commentary to the Onlife Manifesto and Onlife Initiative of the EU
by Theresa Züger On Febuary 8th the European Commission invited to discuss the latest outcome of the so-called “Onlife Initiative”. This interdisciplinary working group of scientists, consisting among others of…
The internet and open innovation for small and medium-sized companies
by Stefan Stumpp According to the EU, open innovation requires new policies and thinking: An easy access to capital, an effective protection of intellectual property and the promotion of networks…
Strategic approaches towards open innovation in small- and medium-sized companies
by Stefan Stumpp In this article I will try to show some strategic ways for opening up boundaries of small- and medium-sized companies (SME). The given strategies – by no…
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.
