Research at HIIG
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) aims to broaden the theoretical and empirical foundation of internet and society research in order to contribute to a better understanding of digital society. Throughout the process of digitalisation, societies are undergoing changes. Our conceptual frame of reference for identifying and assessing these societal changes is the relationship between innovation and governance.
Innovation Governance
Innovation and governance interact in ambiguous ways; they may both mutually stimulate and even enable each other but they may also be constraining. Tensions and synergies emerging from this relationship can be found across all societal fields and organisations including the state, corporations and markets, from the local to the global level.
Analysing the relationship between innovation and governance, HIIG has developed three long-term research programmes, who provide the framework for research activities at HIIG. Further research groups and projects add to and strengthen our programme-oriented research. Research results are presented and discussed through science transfer projects and events.
CONCEPTS, DISCOURSES, MATERIALITIES
The evolving digital society
DATA, ACTORS, INFRASTRUCTURE
The governance of data-driven innovation and cyber security
KNOWLEDGE & SOCIETY
Shifts in knowledge production, organisation and transfer
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- Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Media and data
- Politics and law
- Science and education
- Society and culture
The Third Engagement Report
The Third Engagement Report is a report on civic engagement that focuses on “The Future of Civil…
The Public International Law of the Internet
The rapid development of the Internet and the increasing digitalisation of everyday life is raising new legal questions across the world: Which (state?) law is applicable to which life circumstance? What does a nation’s (digital?) sovereignty mean in the era of a potentially limitless cyberspace?
The Futures of Telemedicine: Knowledge, Policy, Regulation
Digital health card, electronic health record, medical telematics infrastructure – these are the terms dominating the public…
The discursive and political construction of AI
Talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently abundant. Commentators, politicians, start-up founders make us believe that AI…
The Digital Administrative State
Current discussions on the Internet’s impact on public administration and on public institutions in general have centred around the notion of e-government. Our research contributes to this debate by investigating the relationship between the Internet and public institutions as well as their modes of action (public governance).
Task Force: European Platform Economy
The “Task Force European Platform Economy” is a group of HIIG researchers who study the implications of…
Ranking Digital Rights
Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating…
Publication: Internet Policy Review
The Internet Policy Review is an open access, fast track and peer-reviewed journal on Internet regulation.
Platform governance
Platforms have installed themselves as key intermediaries in contemporary societies. They re-organise communication and politics, mobility and…
Pelagios Network: Linking the places of your past
Being able to link one document to another — and move easily between them — is one…
Open!
The meaning of Open Source Innovation for the future firm Open Source Innovation (OSI) is an important…
Learn. Match. Partner.
Digitization trends present different challenges for each business area. There is no single, universal model solution for…
Innovative Open Access in small sciences (InnOAccess)
Academia – especially internet research – strives on a dynamic and diverse publishing ecosystem within which researchers can read…
IMPaQT – Indicators, Measurement and Performance of Quality Assurance: Third-Mission-Activities in the Social Sciences
The research project “IMPaQT” is about making knowledge transfer from research to society measurable through quality criteria…
Goodcoin – Robust Privacy for Loyalty Programmes and Payment Systems
The processing of customer data plays an important role both in traditional business and e-commerce.
Gemeinsam Digital
_Gemeinsam digital (“together digital”), Berlin’s Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum (Competence Centre SME 4.0), is a central point of contact…
Entrepreneurship Research Lab
Our Innovation and Entrepreneurship team is a transdisciplinary group of researchers at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society (HIIG).
DREAM (Digital Research Mining)
As part of the DREAM project, a mobile application is being developed that simplifies the search for…
Demystifying AI in entrepreneurship
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to sustainably change how value is created in all sectors. In…
Defining concepts of the digital society
Algorithmic governance, autonomous systems, platformization, datafication – terms like these seem quite familiar, as they regularly appear…
DECiDe – Digital Identity, European Citizenship and the Future of Democracy
We see an increasing number of citizens dissatisfied with their government organisations, at all political levels. At…
Data Governance
The sharing and re-use of digital data can foster innovation and increase economic and social welfare. However,…
Cybersecurity
With critical infrastructure becoming increasingly networked and the number of networked sensors and other objects of everyday…
Competing and complementing – The relation of Co-determination and new participatory platforms within companies
In our project “Competing and complementing – The relation of co-determination and new participatory platforms within companies”…
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society is currently launching an 18-month study into the tension between innovation and imitation in the Digital Games Industry.
Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Work – Implications, Opportunities And Risks
The research project focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in the intraorganizational workplace of…
ACTiSS: Action for computational social science
With an increasingly turbulent society, the demand for social scientists who are capable of analysing behavioural dynamics…
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- Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Media and data
- Politics and law
- Science and education
- Society and culture