Innovation Economics
Research interests
- The Economics of Blockchain Technology, applied research on blockchain
- The role of Digital Innovation for Economic and Sustainable Development in Emerging Countries
- Regulation of Digital Innovation
- Technology policies in the sphere of renewable energies and digitization
- International Trade and Regulation
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Teaching
- Digital Innovation Summer 2017, Winter 2017/18, Summer 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Design Thinking Workshop at WU Vienna, Summer 2021
- Digital Tools for Academic Project Management (internal training for TU Berlin staff), Winter 2020.
- Sustainable Innovation: Winter 2018/19, Winter 2019/20, Winter 2020/21
- Seminar Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Summer 2020
- Seminar Data-Driven Business Opportunities: Winter 2017/18
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My personal website: https://www.böhmecke-schwafert.eu/
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Professional Experience
- Since 10/2021: Managing Consultant at IBM Germany, AI and Data Platforms, Health Insurance
- 10/2016-09/2021: Senior Consultant at IBM Germany, AI and Data Platforms, Health Insurance
- 10/2015-09/2016: Digital Transformation Consultant at IBM Germany, Big Data, Strategy and Analytics
- 01/2012–09/2015: Working student at IBM Germany, Sales and Distribution Insurance
- 06/2012–06/2013: Research assistant at the Chair of Microeconomics from Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner, University of Jena.
Academic Career
- 01/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair of Innovation Economics at TU Berlin
- 01/2017-12/2021: PhD candidate and research fellow at the chair of Innovation Economics at TU Berlin
- M.Sc. in Economics, Specialization: "Innovation and change", University of Jena, Germany, 2015
Masterthesis: "Mobile Telecommunications and Economic Development: Evidence from mHealth in Sub-Saharan Africa“. - Visiting student at the Universidad de la Frontera in Chile, 2015
- B.A. in Romance Studies (Spanish), University of Jena, Germany, 2012–2013
- B.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics, University of Jena, Germany, 2013
"The efficiency of Demand Pull and Technology Push policies penetrating the German photovoltaic industry: A patent data analysis from 1978–2010". - Visiting student at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, 2011
Publications
- Böhmecke-Schwafert, M., Wehinger, M., & Teigland, R. (2022). Blockchain for the circular economy: Theorizing blockchain's role in the transition to a circular economy through an empirical investigation. Business Strategy and the Environment, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3032
- Preikschat K, Böhmecke-Schwafert M, Buchwald J-P, Stickel C. Trusted systems of records based on
Blockchain technology - a prototype for mileage storing in the automotive industry. Concurrency Computat Pract Exper. 2020;e5630. doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5630 - Böhmecke-Schwafert, M., Niebel, C. (2018): The General Data Protection's (GDPR) impact on data-driven business models: The case of the right to data portability and Facebook, ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, Vol. 1, Issue 2.
- Wurster, S., Böhmecke-Schwafert, M., Hofmann, F., Blind, K. (2018): Born Global Market Dominators and Implications for the Blockchain Avantgarde, In: Corporate and Global Standardization Initiatives in Contemporary Society, 2018,
IGI Global. - Hofmann, F., Wurster, S., Ron, E., Böhmecke-Schwafert, M. (2017): The Immutability Concept of Blockchains and Benefits of Early Standardization In: ITU Kaleidoscope: Challenges for a data-driven society (ITU WT), 2017, pp. 185-192. https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/opb/proc/T-PROC-KALEI-2017-PDF-E.pdf