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Master's thesis: Case studies on digitalization in conformity assessment
Digitalization also affects the quality infrastructure. Conformity assessment bodies (i.e. testing laboratories, certification bodies, inspection bodies, etc.) are on the one hand faced with new test objects that are becoming...
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Local Content Requirements in the Renewable Energy Sector: Using Economic Complexity to assess the fit of LCRs to the productive capacities in developing and emerging economies
This project aims to assess to which extent Local Content Requirements (LCR), a industrial policy that increasingly is being employed by governments in developing and emerging economies to create local manufacturing capacities,...
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Technological sovereignty, strategic autonomy and further related concepts: Investigating the links to innovation
Following various changes in the global geopolitical landscape, there is an increasing call for securing technological, but also digital sovereignty. Edler et al. (2020) define technology sovereignty as "the ability of a...
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Empirical analysis of compliance with the trade rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
With increasing geopolitical uncertainties and changing policy patterns, the occurrence of trade conflicts must be expected to increase. For Germany and the EU, this means that trade relations with other countries must...
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Innovation and distribution issues / inequality
Innovation is mostly seen as something positive for economic and also societal development. It is conceived as worthy of support, meaning policy makers have been enthusiastically promoting innovative activities. However,...
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Research on innovation-based start-ups
Start-ups are an important driver in successful innovation systems. We are looking for new approaches and data sources in getting access to statistical analyses of start-ups at the regional, national and global level....
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How peer communities advance sustainable innovations
How peer communities advance sustainable innovations Innovation studies have traditionally focused on firm activities. However, enabled by digital technologies, peer collaboration has become an essential element of innovation...
Further theses of Faculty VII can be found here.