IFI professor Matthias Fink was invited as the keynote speaker at the 4th International Polymers Congress in Wels in December 2017. The topic of his talk was a socio-economic perspective on innovation management. Especially, he warned of a focus on the technical challenges of the digital transformation only, while missing out the social dimension and […]
IFI Professor Matthias Fink moderated a track at the Bildungskonzil Heldenberg 2017 organized by the Chamber of Commerce Lower Austria. Researchers, practitioners and political decision makers reflected on how education can contribute to a resilient society. The tract chaired by Matthias was focused on the economic perspective. The model that resulted from the reflections was […]
IFI researchers Matthias Fink and Daniela Maresch together with project initiator Ralph Richter (IRS – Leibniz Institute for Research on Socierty and Space, Erkner) visit several social enterprises and interview stakeholders on the local, regional and national level across the Ballyhoura region which spans between Cork and Limerick in the middle-west of Ireland. This field […]
In einem Markt des Überangebots können nur Unternehmen bestehen und wachsen, die sich konsequent durch innovative Leistungen von ihrem Mitbewerb abheben. Die Innovationskraft von Unternehmen stellt einen zentralen Wettbewerbsvorteil dar. In einer zunehmend global vernetzten Wirtschaft mit immer kürzer werdenden Produktlebenszyklen und zunehmender Komplexität bedarf es eines professionellen Innovationsmanagements. Nur wenn es Firmen gelingt, neue […]
IFI researchers Daniela Maresch, Johannes Gartner, Michael Gusenbauer and Matthias Fink had a successful research trip to Australia. They gave three research talks at the ISPIM 2015 conference at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane. The paper on the performance impact of patents was nominated for the conference best paper award and has […]
Annaleena Parhankangas, Philippe Riot and Hans Landström organized and hosted during the annual meeting in Philadelphia: “Challenging the assumptions and accepted research practice in entrepreneurship research”. The growth of entrepreneurship research that we have been witnessing over the past few decades carries a double–edged sword. Entrepreneurship as a research field has produced a lot of […]
The Business Angel Institute, Dr. Matthias Fink (IFI Institute for Innovation Management at JKU Linz) and Dr. Giuseppe Delmestri (Institute for Change Management and Management Development at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business) invited to an exciting evening with Dr. Andrea Moro. Dr. Moro conducts research at the Cranfield University. In addition, he is […]
Der diesjährige IFI-JKU Report zu Generativen Fertigungsverfahren präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer integrativen Technologiefolgenabschätzung. Die Innovationsforscher Johannes Gartner, Daniela Maresch und Matthias Fink vom IFI Institut für Innovationsmanagement der JKU kontrastieren die Erwartungen von Experten, politischen Entscheidungsträgern und der allgemeine Bevölkerung. Die Analyse mündet in Handlungsempfehlungen für die Politik, Unternehmen und Bevölkerung. Damit wird die bislang […]
OÖNachrichten and JKU jointly invite outstanding personalities from various areas of the public arena to the university. The aim is to create the opportunity for students and the general public to be inspired by exciting talks on current topics and to exchange ideas across the boundaries of academia. For the session on January 21, the […]
IFI Researchers Daniela Maresch and Matthias Fink were awarded a conference best paper award at the Academy of Behavioral Finance and Economics conference in Los Angeles together with their coauthor Andrea Moro from the University of Cranfield (UK). Additionally, the paper was selected for publication in the Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance. This research was one of […]
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 […]
