Homelessness for many people is sad reality. Especially during the Christmas season which should be a beautiful and pleasant time. For homeless people the question is not which gift to make or to get. Rather it is where to get the next meal or the urgently needed winter boots. As IFI students – here we […]
IFI researchers Johannes Gartner and Matthias Fink contributed to the RurInno EU policy round table “Social Entrepreneurship as Driver of Change in Rural Europe” which took place in Brussels on May 23, 2017. At this policy round table, leading experts from DG Enterprise, DG Agriculture and Rural Development and European Network for Rural Development among […]
In January 2015, Richard returned to the University of Birmingham (Housing and Communities Research Group, School of Social Policy) for a two-year Marie Curie Fellowship, undertaking research on the governance of cooperative and community-led housing models. It contributes to a larger international comparative study between the housing sectors in England and Austria, focusing on the […]
This spring term IFI students got the chance to combine theory with practice first hand. Johammer e-mobility GmbH, an Upper Austrian company known worldwide for its innovative electric motorbike, was IFI teaching partner again. This semester, the interesting but also challenging task for students was to understand Johammer’s business model and to find suitable directions […]
Isabella Hatak and Matthias Fink contributed to the 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management which took place August 1-5, 2014 in Philadelphia, PA. Isabella chaired as session for the entrepreneurship division and gave a talk on burnout in the business start-up phase. Matthias Fink was invited speaker in the PWD on Challenging the Assumptions and Accepted Practices of […]
Richard Lang presented his research on citizen participation and community-led housing in England at the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Studies (ISTR) in Münster, Germany (July 22 to 25, 2014). His conference paper presents new insights into the community-led housing sector in England which is still emerging and so far insufficiently […]
For recently winning a fellowship, Johannes Gartner, Isabella Hatak and Richard Lang, were honoured with the “Young Researchers’ Award” by the JKU. Richard Lang currently holds an APART-fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and has also won a Marie Curie Fellowship for a research stay at the University of Birmingham.
Dr. Richard Lang presented his current research on social capital building in non-profit housing at the 11th International NPO-Colloquium at JKU Linz, which took place from April 3 to 4, 2014. In the session on resource mobilisation in cooperatives, Richard provided insights into the crucial role of vertical linkages between community members and resource holders […]
The project deals with the valuation of growth-oriented enterprises (ventures) in an early stage, ranging from pre-seed companies to later funding rounds. The project will extract the main valuation factors out of existing studies on the rating and investment behavior in venture enterprises. The benchmarks – at first valid irrespective of regional, industry or company-stage […]
Through concerted development and continuous survey of the European Venture Climate Index (E-VCI) valuable information will be extracted on Venture funding and innovation climate with respect to different branches and regions. The E-VCI will facilitate (1) a fact-based scholarly debate, (2) development of efficient measures to support the innovation sector and (3) will provide more […]
