IFI professor Matthias Fink served as a member of the faculty at the 7th edition of Austria’s unique international workshop for organization and management research: AESW Created by JKU’s Institute of Organization Science in 2013, the Austrian Early Scholars Workshop (AESW) in Management provides a unique opportunity for advanced PhD students and academics in early […]
Matthias Fink joint the advisory board of the INTEREG project InnoPeer AVM. The PEER-to-peer network of INNOvation agencies and business schools develops a novel transnational qualification programme on AdVanced Manufacturing for the needs of Central European SME. Adopting innovative, advanced manufacturing processes is a major challenge for companies in central Europe. Advance manufacturing (AVM) is […]
Together with Hans Landström IFI researcher Matthias Fink had the honor to serve as a supervisor at the proposal defense seminar of Solomon Akele Abebe held at the University of Lund on January 18th, 2019. The thesis titled Refugee entrepreneurship: how do recent refugees become entrepreneurs in their new host environment? Is part of the […]
IFI-Professor Matthias Fink was invited as a speaker and debater at the festival “#ThinkTankRegion” at the headquarters of the company Kreisel Electric in Rainbach/Freistadt. The festival took place in November for the first time in order to bring together regional masterminds from all around the world. It gathered numerous speakers on the topics new technologies/digitalisation, […]
Matthias Fink, professor at the IFI, provided his expert opinion in an article of the Austrian daily newspaper “DiePresse” about the challenge of innovation in small, medium scale and large entreprises. Please find the article here.
IFI-Professor Matthias Fink and Netural-founder Albert Ortig have been the keynote speakers at the expert talk organized by LIMAK Austrian Business School and Netural together with the LIMAK Club on 13th September 2018 in the Tabakfabrik Linz. Matthias Fink and Albert Ortig pointed out why the human being might be the most important factor when it comes to digitalization. […]
The LIMAK Austrian Business School and the newspaper DiePresse on 11th September 2018 organised a Business Breakfast in Café Landtmann. IFI professor Matthias Fink in his keynote speech emphasised the importance of digitalization for the competitiveness of companies: In order to keep the digital future successful companies now have to find adequate strategies, develop business […]
At the VIVATIS Group’s 1st Inno Board, which took place in mid-May at the Linzer Tabakfabrik event center, IFI professor Matthias Fink was member of a jury of seven experts, who selected the best ideas from the innovation managers of the subsidiaries. Following its recent rollout within the VIVATIS Group, the “Big Picture” innovation model […]
Together with Susanne Summereder (LIMAK), IFI professor Matthias Fink was invited to give the keynote at the Digitalization Kick-Off held by Primetals for their global task force in Linz in early June. In the presentation Suanne and Matthias highlighted the crucial role of a digital mindset for unlocking the potential of the new technologies and […]
IFI professor Matthias Fink served as a member of the faculty at the 6th edition of Austria’s unique international workshop for organization and management research: AESW Created by JKU’s Institute of Organization Science in 2013, the Austrian Early Scholars Workshop (AESW) in Management provides a unique opportunity for advanced PhD students and academics in early […]
IFI professor Matthias Fink gave a keynote “Understanding Stress in Entrepreneurship” at the international paper development seminar focused the entrepreneurial process hosted by Francisco Liñán at the University of Seville, Spain in early April this year. Other keynotes were given by Ute Stephan (King’s College London), Marco van Gelderen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Francisco Liñán (University […]
IFI researchers Richard Lang and Matthias Fink gave a seminar on “Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Europe – Towards a Theoretical Framework” at the University of Southern Denmark, Kolding. The intensive discussion with the members of the Entrepreneurship and Organization Group at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management led to various insights that will inform […]
