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Subdense

suburban densification . This project addresses this knowledge gap using an innovative combination of geodata analysis with social and policy science and planning. With a strong focus on landowners’ and local [...] local stakeholders’ plural interests and agencies, SUBDENSE will contribute to social science knowledge on the often rather technical-administrative academic debate on land policies. Background on suburban …
1. LEO
2. News: 10/21/2022
Students demonstrate their creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.

the students were enthusiastic on Junior Innovation Day 2022. On this day, the task was not only to find good ideas for business models, but also to include social, economic and ecological conditions that [...] creativity and entrepreneurial spirit on Friday, October 21, 2022. As part of the fourth Junior Innovation Day, they spent a day developing creative business ideas and business models. They were supported [...] that require an entrepreneurial mindset to be able to develop innovative solutions. "Self-employment can be expressed by starting a business - but thinking and acting entrepreneurially does not depend on …
1. Fakultät Sowi
2. News: 5/30/2023
sfs coordinates a large-scale skills partnership for energy-intensive industries

Internal Market, Thierry Breton, and the Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit - industry partners, research organisations, social partners, and educational and training organisations have set [...] projects of the institute, especially in the context of vocational education and training and social innovation. To the notification of the European Commission Lists of Large-Scale Partnership coordinators …
1. WiWi
2. News: 10/23/2025
New publication in the Journal of Product Innovation Management

Kurzhals examine the adoption of e-commerce by US retailers between 1995 and 2019. We find: The social capital of outside board members, their embeddedness in elite networks, accelerates the adoption [...] established companies adapt to disruptive technologies with board capital theory, showing how the social and human capital of supervisory boards influence the speed and intensity of introducing such te [...] boards in driving disruptive change, combining strategic leadership research with governance and innovation research. Citation : Hensellek, S., König, A., Graf‐Vlachy, L., Szewczyk, J., & Kurzhals, C. (2025) …
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Talk by Dr. Oili-Helena Ylijoki

who work in social sciences. Oili-Helena Ylijoki is a senior researcher and adjunct professor of social psychology at the Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI) [...] mergers, and student socialization. Currently she is involved also in the Nordic Centre of Excellence “NordWit”, investigating women’s careers in technology-driven research and innovation in and outside academe …
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New Industrial Work

long term through a high level of innovative ability on the part of the companies. Innovations include products, processes, organisation and marketing (service). Innovative processes are of central importance [...] processes. From a social science perspective, it is probably not exaggerated to speak of a new rationalisation paradigm. So far, however, there are only very few and hardly any systematic social and labour science [...] the indispensable prerequisite for the production of technologically advanced products. Process innovations have technological, organisational and personnel dimensions that are inseparably linked. This is …
1. WiWi
2. News: 5/19/2021
TU Dortmund University meets Lehigh University – Collaborating internationally – and virtually

collaborated with students from Lehigh University in the US to discuss topics on innovation in Germany vs. innovation in the US. Within groups of five – both from Germany and the US - the students discussed [...] discussed a specific task concerning different aspects such as team culture, risk attitudes, or innovation in different industries like the automotive sector. Each team then gave a short pitch presentation [...] the best team was awarded a small price. Besides working on their tasks, the students connected socially and for example exchanged their experiences about studying in Germany vs. in the US during the Corona …
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research areas in the social sciences: prediction modeling, agile intervention design and evaluation, and targeted methodological research. Prediction Modelling In this area, we use innovative methods from the [...] tailor-made methods in fields like biostatistics. These current methodological innovations have yet to find their way into the social sciences, because the novel methods have good inference properties for h [...] values, high dimensions or unbalancedness. FAIR will systematically adapt and extend these methods for social science contexts covering; e.g., repeated measures and complex panel data. Moreover, tree-based …
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Dr. Tobias Wienzek - Sozialforschungsstelle (sfs)

promoters in innovation collaborations of non-research-intensive SMEs] 2008–2018: Research Assistant at the Chair of Economic and Industrial Sociology, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, TU Dortmund [...] in economics and social sciences, focus on sociology, TU Dortmund University Projects 01.05.2008–30.4.2011: Innovationsmanagement für Lowtech-Hightech-Kooperationen - Low2High [Innovation management for [...] Dr. Tobias Wienzek Social Research Center Dortmund (sfs) Evinger Platz 17, Room 47 Email: tobias.wienzek tu-dortmund de Tel.: +49 231 755 90247 Fax: +49 231 755 90205 Research Associate Research area Work …
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2. News: 5/11/2021
ViSAS Project launched

scientifically to enable its use by further actors. The basis of the project idea is the innovative approach of Social Art, the application and dissemination of which in Europe has already been and is being [...] Interrupt GmbH , Germany Vivaio per l´Intraprendenza Associazione Promozione Sociale , Italy Patchanka Società Cooperativa Sociale , Italy Avanzarte, Spain La tête de l'emploi, France Links ViSAS | project [...] The Covid-19 pandemic intensifies social and economic challenges in Europe, making youth work as important as it is problematic to implement in view of the current restrictions. Against this background …