Forschen – Institut für Innovationsmanagement und Unternehmensgründung, AAU Klagenfurt

Im Mittelpunkt unserer Forschungsaktivitäten stehen das Management von Innovationen in Unternehmen sowie die Gründung und Entwicklung von Business Startups. In der Forschung streben wir primär drei Ziele an: hohe Qualität, internationale Sichtbarkeit, Aktualität. So finden die Digitalisierung und nachhaltige Entwicklung (sowohl im sozialen wie auch ökologischen Bereich) bei den empirischen Studien des Instituts konsequent Berücksichtigung. Dabei arbeiten wir interdisziplinär und neben betriebswirtschaftlichen Perspektiven verwenden wir Ansätze aus der Soziologie, Psychologie und Pädagogik. Unsere Projekte werden auch regelmäßig in die forschungsgeleitete Lehre integriert.

Entrepreneurship

Innovationsmanagement

Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte

Soziale Innovationen – Social Impact for the Alps Adriatic Region

„Soziale Innovationen – Social Impact for the Alps Adriatic Region“: The aim of the project is to develop solutions for the central social challenges of the border region together with public administrations and institutions and social entrepreneurs. To raise awareness, different activities were performed like three rounds of social business idea challenges and social entrepreneurship training programs with an accompanying acceleration for implementation of social business ideas. A handbook for implementing social entrepreneurship in the Alps-Adriatic Region will be published. The homepage of the SIAA project, www.siaa-project.eu, includes training material for social entrepreneurs, shows videos to good practice and presents the participants of the SIAA Lab training programs with a description of their ideas.

This project is funded by EU (Interreg Italy-Austria) and Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds (KWF).
Project duration: 01.01.2018 – 30.04.2021
Persons: Gertraud Hellwagner-Beham (project leader), Georg Eichler
Partners: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, University of Udine, FH Kärnten, build! Gründerzentrum Kärnten, t2i – Technologie Transfer und Innovation s.c.a.r.l., FINN-Friuli Innovazione – Centro di Ricerca e di Trasferimento Tecnologico

Ecopreneurs as Change Actors

„Ecopreneurs as Change Actors“: The project aims to figure out how ecopreneurs mobilize and use their capital to realize economic and ecological goals simultaneously. We examine how different types of entrepreneurial capital (such as cultural or symbolic capital) are convertible among themselves in order to achieve the two goals, and how this process depends on the ecopreneur’s habitus. Award-winning ecopreneurs represent the sample studied.
This project is funded by Österreichische Nationalbank (ÖNB).
Persons: Robert Breitenecker & Malgorzata Wdowiak (project leaders), Patrick Gregori, Erich Schwarz

Failed’ Entrepreneurs

„’Failed’ Entrepreneurs“: The project aims to improve our understanding of business failure with particular emphasis on entrepreneurial learning. Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in Austria and Slovenia acts as a research context.
This project is funded by Österreichischer Austauschdienst (ÖAD).
Persons: Malgorzata Wdowiak (project leader), Wolfgang Lattacher
Scientific partner: University of Ljubljana

Nascent Entrepreneurship

„Nascent Entrepreneurship“: It is a longitudinal, explorative study of motivations, decision-making and learning of nascent entrepreneurs embedded in a Carinthian accelerator program. The actors investigated are from the fields of technology entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.
This project is funded by Verein zur Förderung der Wirtschaftswissenschaften and Forschungsrat der Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt.
Persons: Erich Schwarz (project leader), Georg Eichler, Patrick Gregori, Patrick Holzmann, Wolfgang Lattacher, Malgorzata Wdowiak

Aktuelle Publikationen

Holzmann, P., Schwarz, E.J. & Audretsch, D.B. (2020). Understanding the determinants of novel technology adoption among teachers: the case of 3D printing. Journal of Technology Transfer, 45(1), (2020), 259-275, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-018-9693-1
Globocnik, D., Rauter, R., & Baumgartner, R J. (2019). Synergy or Conflict? The Relationships among Organizational Culture, Sustainability-related Innovation Performance, and Economic Innovation Performance, International Journal of Innovation Management, https://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919620500048
Gregori, P., Wdowiak, M. A., Schwarz, E., & Holzmann, P. (2019). Exploring Value Creation in Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Insights from the Institutional Logics Perspective and the Business Model Lens, Sustainability, 11 (9), 2505, https://doi.org/10.3390/su11092505
Holzmann, P., Breitenecker, R., & Schwarz, E. (2019). Business Model Patterns for 3D Printer Manufacturers, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/JMTM-09-2018-0313
Eichler, G. M., & Schwarz, E. (2019). What Sustainable Development Goals Do Social Innovations Address? A Systematic Review and Content Analysis of Social Innovation Literature. Sustainability, 11 (2), https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020522
Globocnik, D., Faullant, R., & Parastuty, Z. (2019). Bridging Strategic Planning and Business Model Management – A Formal Control Framework to Manage Business Model Portfolios and Dynamics, European Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.08.005
Schultz, C., Globocnik, D., Kock, A., & Salomo, S. (2018). Application and Performance Impact of Stage-Gate-Systems – The Role of Services in the Firm’s Business Focus, R&D Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12341

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