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Siemens Student Award Germany: How Can You Upgrade Our Aging Community into a...
Another interesting contest by German technology major Siemens: The Siemens Student Award 2012 has just headed off. Siemens has a tradition of trying to find solutions for major problems that our...
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European Commission is Funding Research on Mini Factories for Customized,...
As part of the Factories of the Future Call, the European Commission is focusing on mini factories for customized products using local flexible production. This is a topic that I have researched for a...
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News from the Lab: Results of KUMAC Half-Time Meeting
The objective of the KUMAC project is to develop new productivity increasing, value creating methods for mass customization providers in the German retail market. Some focusses are: Valid...
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Rewarding Research: Project Stilsicher Unterwegs Makes First Place at...
While the main reward of academic research is scientific progress (publishable in a good journal), sometimes it is a nice bonus to experience some outside recognition as well. In this spirit we are...
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[Participate] Ford Interieur Design Contest with Focus on the Needs of Seniors
Demographic statistics are clear: over the coming decades there will be more and more seniors and less younger people. While a lot of thought is being invested into adapting our society to better...
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Flipping the Classroom: TIM Research Group Pioneers Future Teaching Concept...
Abstract: Our group has been selected and funded by the RWTH Aachen’s Exploratory Teaching Space Committee to prepare and execute a pilot project aiming to apply the concept of flipping teaching for a...
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TIM in the MIX: Vote for Our Hack at the HBR M-Prize: Global solutions, local...
Our group has been invited to participate at the the HBR-McKinsey M-Prize . Now we need your support! If you want to see our proposal outlined below become a winning idea, please head over to the...
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TIM in the MIX: We Made It to the Finals, Now We Need YOUR Help Again!
End of the last year we posted about our group having been invited to participate at the the HBR-McKinsey M-Prize . Back then we asked for your support by liking our “hack”, the solution proposal we...
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[From our Research Labs] Project Emotio II: Co-Creating Users’ Mobile Experience
Today we want once more to give some insight into one of the exciting projects going on in our research labs. Today’s feature is about EMOTIO II, a project designed to research which tools are needed...
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Just Released: Completely New 2013 Edition of Our Open Innovation Market Study
Fresh from the press! For the second time, our open innovation study explores that market of open innovation accelerators (OIA), organizations that help their clients to include external experts in all...
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Continuation of WiPro-Project approved
The TIM Group and mecca new media (mecca neue medien) will work on the further development, commercialization and validation of the WiPro software package in the following twelve months. The project...
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WiPro-Community online
[For our English visitors: this is information for our German students and German speaking enterprises]: Das Lehrstuhlprojekt WiPro – Ein multimedialer Werkzeugkasen für das wissensbasierte...
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INTEGRO Project Kickoff
The aim of the INTEGRO Project is to develop an integrated innovation and knowledge management approach for high-tech enterprises and innovation and networks. It will be analyzed which competences and...
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Kick off meeting
Last Friday Prof Piller and myself went to Amsterdam, where we finally had the kick off meeting of our EU-project SERVIVE. It is a mass customisation project, that will hopefully revolutionize the...
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Kick-Off des integro-Projektes: Innovationsnetzwerke – Perspektiven für KMUs
Innovationsnetzwerke – Perspektiven für KMUs der IT- und Mechatronikbranche Am Freitag, den 28.11.2008, 12.30-16.00 Uhr findet in den Räumen der Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund der offizielle...
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Kick-Off Meeting for the REMPLANET project in Valencia
Last week the REMPLANET consortium met on campus at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain for the official project kick-off meeting for the REMPLANET project. The project consortium consists of...
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Open Innovation at OSRAM: User Idea Contest Open on LED technology
[repost from the MC&OI blog] Siemens finally has entered the open innovation landscape. They started late with a dedicated and focused initiative, but now have a full-scale open innovation program...
View ArticleAnnual conference of the Discontinuous Innovation-Lab in London
From June 30th till July 1st I had the opportunity to attend the annual conference of the Discontinuous Innovation Lab. This is an international and interdisciplinary group of innovation researchers...
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Mass Customization: Tour to Spreadshirt in Leipzig
Yesterday, Evalotte, Thorsten, Christoph and I had the opportunity to spend a full day at Spreadshirt‘s new German Headquarters and factory in Leipzig. The trip was part of research for our SERVIVE and...
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Conference report: XIX. International RESER Conference in Budapest
I just came home from the annual RESER conference which took place in Budapest, Hungary this year. It was quite a nice conference and me and my colleague Dennis Hilgers had everything you could expect...
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