Sustainable Innovation

Possible Topics: 1. Indicators for User Innovation 2. User Innovation in collaborative online communities 3. The relevance of user innovation for companies

The project aims to examine the relationship between the procurement officer and the gender of the CEO of a firm that wins a public contract. The International Trade Center (ITC) estimated that currently women-owned businesses...

The project aims to examine quantitatively the connection between firms’ participation in public procurement and their innovation activity. Thus far, the literature has established a conceptual link between public procurement and...

Contact: Rainer Quitzow. Energy transitions take shape within unique techno-economic, political and social settings. Systematic analyses of such processes at the country-level can help further our understanding of the drivers...

Contact: Rainer Quitzow. The deployment of wind and solar energy varies significantly in scope and speed within countries. In some cases, this may be related to resource availability, but in most cases other techno-economic,...

Contact: Knut Blind. The concept of the sharing economy contributes certainly to sustainability. However, we are looking for works which analyse both the conceptual and empirical linkages between the various types of the sharing...

Contact: Knut Blind. We understand resilience as the capacity of complex socio-economic or socio-ecological systems to continually change and adapt, but remain within critical thresholds. Consequently, resilience is closely...