Technische Universität Berlin
Chair of Economics
Secr. H 47
Room H 4137 A
Straße des 17. Juni 135
D-10623 Berlin

Consulting times: by arrangement

• Since 10/2015: Senior Consultant at IBM Germany in different areas: Watson AI and Data Platforms (currently); Big Data, Strategy and Analytics
• 01/2012–09/2015: Working student at IBM Germany, Sales and Distribution Insurance
• 06/2012–06/2013: Research assistant  at the Chair of Microeconomics from Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner, University of Jena.
  

• Since 01/2017 PhD candidate and research fellow at the chair of Innovation Economics at TU Berlin
• M.Sc. in Economics, Specialization: "Innovation and change", University of Jena, Germany, 2015
  Masterthesis: "Mobile Telecommunications and Economic Development: Evidence from mHealth in Sub-Saharan Africa“.
  
• Visiting student at the Universidad de la Frontera in Chile, 2015
• B.A. in Romance Studies (Spanish), University of Jena, Germany, 2012–2013
  
• B.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics, University of Jena, Germany, 2013
  "The efficiency of Demand Pull and Technology Push policies penetrating the German photovoltaic industry: A patent data analysis from 1978–2010".
  
• Visiting student at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, 2011

• (Digital) Innovation and ICTs in developing regions, Leapfrogging
• Technology policies in the sphere of renewable energies and digitization
• The Economics of Digitization: Shareeconomy, Internet of Things, Blockchain, Cloud Computing and platform-based innovation and its influence on economy, society and innovation system.

For Master-/Bachelortheses click here [2].

• Digital Innovation (SS  2017, WS 2017/18, SS 2018, SS 2019)
• Sustainable Innovation (WS 2018/19)
• Seminar: Data-Driven Business Opportunities (WS 2017/18)

• Preikschat K, Böhmecke-Schwafert M, Buchwald J-P, Stickel C. Trusted systems of records based on Blockchain technology - a prototype for mileage storing in the automotive industry. [3] Concurrency Computat Pract Exper. 2020;e5630. doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5630 [4]
• Böhmecke-Schwafert, M., Niebel, C. (2018): The General Data Protection's (GDPR) impact on data-driven business models: The case of the right to data portability and Facebook [5], ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, Vol. 1, Issue 2.
• Wurster, S., Böhmecke-Schwafert, M., Hofmann, F., Blind, K. (2018): Born Global Market Dominators and Implications for the Blockchain [6]Avantgarde [7], In: Corporate and Global Standardization Initiatives in Contemporary Society, 2018,
  IGI Global.
  
• Hofmann, F., Wurster, S., Ron, E., Böhmecke-Schwafert, M. (2017): The Immutability Concept of Blockchains and Benefits of Early Standardization In: ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a data-driven society (ITU WT), 2017, pp. 185-192. https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/opb/proc/T-PROC-KALEI-2017-PDF-E.pdf [8]