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Regulatory Sandboxes
Regulatory sandboxes are a new innovation policy instrument. After the origins in the financial sector to promote the development of fintechs, the approach has been applied in other sectors, like transport. Now it is proposed to apply it in emerging technologies, like blockchain or artificial intelligence. And recently regulatory sandboxes are the…
Exploring the Adoption of the International Energy Management Standard ISO 50001
ISO 50001 is a worldwide applied standard that, since 2011, aims to support companies and organizations in establishing systematic energy management. It also demonstrates that an energy management system complies with the standard through certification. In the frame of the master thesis, we offer to investigate a dataset based on web-mined data on…
Regional Innovation Policy: Berlin as an innovative location
This thesis can use data from the Berlin Innovation Panel (BIP) to study the apsects of the regional cluster of Berlin.
Contact: Knut Blind or Charlotte Rochell
Technological sovereignty, strategic autonomy and further related concepts: Investigating the links to innovation
Following various changes in the global geopolitical landscape, there is an increasing call for securing technological, but also digital sovereignty. Edler et al. (2023) define technology sovereignty as "Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means". Independently, Kar and Thepa (2020) devel…
Research on innovation-based start-ups
Start-ups are an important driver in successful innovation systems. We are looking for new approaches and data sources in getting access to statistical analyses of start-ups at the regional, national and global level. Furthermore, new technological trends, like Artificial Intelligence or Blockchain, are also driven by start-ups. Therefore,…
Drivers and impacts of Open Source
We are looking for theses which investigate drivers for open source software, e.g. hosted at GitHub, and open source hardware. There are large databases of commits contributed to GitHub, which can be connected to further information about their contributors. This information can be complemented by country or company information to analyze their…
Interaction between standardization and environmental policy
Contact: Knut Blind.
Regulation has been the traditional instrument of policy makers to protect the environment. However, the so called New Approach (Link hinterlegen www.newapproach.org) organizes the interplay between governmental regulations and standards within the European Union. Therefore, standardization is an important activity to…
Identification of breakthrough innovation
Contact: Knut Blind
Recently, Germany has established an agency for the support of breakthrough innovations (Sprunginnovationen).
https://www.bmbf.de/de/agentur-fuer-sprunginnovationen-9677.html
We are looking for Master thesis about approaches to identify such breakthrough innovations, but also analyzing and comparing policies and eventually…
The Role of Regulations for Business Modell Innovation
Contact: Knut Blind.
Business Modell Innovation have been gained increasing attraction both by academics and practitioners in industry. Since this type of so comprehensive covering both value creation and value appropriation, they are confronted with several dimensions of the regulatory framework conditions. Popular examples are Uber and Airbnb…
Regulatory Sandboxes
Contact: Knut Blind.
The increasing speed of science and technology is challenging the existing regulatory frameworks and increases the likelihood that regulations are obstacles to innovation. Therefore, the European Commission offers Innovation Deals as voluntary cooperation agreements between the EU, innovators, and national, regional and local…