Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW

Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW

Hello Future! - Create your idea for the decentralization of the future

If your idea makes it to the top 3, you and your team will be given the opportunity to join the Hashgraph Innovation Program. There you can expect up to 250,000 dollars implementation budget and professional support for the further development of your idea to marketability! The idea competition is open to all Fraunhofer researchers. Submissions are open until March 31, 2023.

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READING TIP compiled volume "Resilience for the Future of Value Networks" (in German)

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Crowd Innovation Website and Platform of Fraunhofer IMW

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Scientific Library on Regional Development

In this scientific library, you will find bundled information on how research contributes to successful structural change.

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Our Mission

At Fraunhofer IMW, our team draws from more than fourteen years of experience in socioeconomic research at our Leipzig offices. Fraunhofer economists develop scientifically sound solutions to challenges presented by globalization, ensuring the lasting success of our clients and partners from business and industry, research, and civil society.

Our mission is to develop powerful and effective strategies, processes, and tools, in order to:

  • Facilitate knowledge and technology transfer between organizations
  • Convert knowledge into innovative products and services
  • Develop the right environment for innovation and knowledge transfer

In this process, we aim for ecologically and socially balanced and economically viable solutions with a global perspective.

Founded as the Center for Central and Eastern Europe MOEZ in 2006, the institute consolidated its expertise and range of services in internationalization and the knowledge economy under a new name in 2015, becoming the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW.

Range of Services

 

Research Units

Business Models: Engineering and Innovation, Digital Health, Professional Development and Competence Management, Futures and Innovations, Innovation Financing, Innovation Acceptance, Innovation Policy and Transfer Design, Data Science for Innovation, Economics of Technology and Management

Research divisions and units
 

Branch office of the Fraunhofer IMW

Center for Economics and Management of Technologies CEM

As a branch office of the Fraunhofer IMW in Halle (Saale), the Center for Economics and Management of Technologies combines materials science and techno-economic expertise, for example in technology and regulatory impact assessments or the digitalization of materials processes.

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Strengthen your business model with the resilience cockpit

Take stock of your company's business model resilience and receive a checklist with concrete measures to strengthen your specific business model resilience. Fraunhofer IMW Resilience Cockpit was developed in the research project "RESILIENT".

 

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Crowd Innovation: website and platform online

The Crowd Innovation website offers researchers and businesses a quick overview of the potential of crowd innovation for their field of work. You will find new information on crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, updates on ongoing idea contests, our idea platform, and hot-off-the-press publications from the Innovation Finance Unit.

Publications

Publications

Our publications document research activities at the institute.

The institute publishes an annual report. To receive your copy, please contact: jahresbericht@imw.fraunhofer.de. 

 

Compiled volume

Resilience for the future of value networks

This compiled volume brings together current findings in resilience research and shows how companies can capture and improve their resilience.

by Juliane Welz, Marija Radic, Annamaria Riemer and Thorsten Posselt

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Article

Using vector representations for matching tasks to skills

by Miriam Amin, Jan-Peter Bergmann and Dr. Yuri Campbell

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Potential Paper / 1.8.2022

Impact Crowdfunding

Among other things, the potential paper proposes three supportive frameworks in startup funding to enable crowdfunding for impact-oriented social enterprises to have a long-term impact.

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11.1.2023

Knowledge transfer for technology-oriented structural change in Central Germany

The House of Transfer (HoT) project started yesterday in Leuna. The coming four years are set to see the development of a central hub for all stakeholders in the biobased economy, chemical, plastics, and hydrogen sectors in the Central German mining region. Led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, the project team, which comprises the project partners BioEconomy e. V., the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW, the Chemie+ cooperation network, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and POLYKUM e. V., has set itself the goal of providing support for the accelerated implementation of the structural change. The project is being funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK) to the tune of €4.6 million.
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11.1.2023

Knowledge transfer for technology-oriented structural change in Central Germany

The House of Transfer (HoT) project started yesterday in Leuna. The coming four years are set to see the development of a central hub for all stakeholders in the biobased economy, chemical, plastics, and hydrogen sectors in the Central German mining region. Led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, the project team, which comprises the project partners BioEconomy e. V., the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW, the Chemie+ cooperation network, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and POLYKUM e. V., has set itself the goal of providing support for the accelerated implementation of the structural change. The project is being funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK) to the tune of €4.6 million.
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Lingen (Ems) / 26.4.2023

SAVE THE DATE: Fraunhofer Matching Event - Research meets SMEs

The Fraunhofer Matching Event connects medium-sized companies from mechanical engineering and production with Fraunhofer researchers. At the event, researchers from all over Germany present their research results and patents on site. Participation is free of charge.

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Hybrid event in the Kupfersaal (lounge), Leipzig / 30.11.2022

"Fraunhofer Energy Talk" - Current Challenges

Nov. 30, Leipzig: Prof. Dr. Felix Müsgens, Chair of Energy Economics, Brandenburg University of Technology and Dr. Tim Mennel, German Energy Agency GmbH (dena) at the Fraunhofer Energy Talk, 4-5 p.m., with Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Growitsch, Director of the Fraunhofer IMW Institute.

 

Fraunhofer Forum Congress / 24.11.2022

"Cultural Heritage at Risk - Fraunhofer Technologies for Cultural Property Protection in Times of Climate Change and Digitalization".

Nov. 24, Leipzig: The Fraunhofer Forum will discuss the results of the research project "Cultural Heritage at Risk - Impacts of Climate Change, Opportunities of Digitization" (2019-2022). Uta Pollmer, research associate in the Innovation Accetance Group, will present the publication "Fraunhofer Technologies for Heritage Protection in Times of Climate Change and Digitization," among other things.

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Saxon Transfer Forum in Chemnitz / 23.11.2022

Keynote: "Transfer for Transformation - Shaping the Economy for the Future with Innovative Knowledge and Technology Transfer".

23.11.2022, Leipzig: Executive Director of the Institute Prof. Dr. Thorsten Posselt gives the keynote speech at the Saxon Transfer Forum, organized by futureSAX.

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12. Transferwerkstatt | Berlin / 17.11.2022

Transentive project

November 17-18, Berlin: 12th Transferwerkstatt Transfer 2S+ – Gaining advantage from strategic and system-inherent transfer for a sustainable science system?“ Anna Pohle and Elsa Rumpf present the Transentive project .

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Event of the REIHE MOBILITÄT of the Industrieverein Sachsen 1828 e. V. and the VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e. V. / 11.10.2022

Hydrogen in public transport

11.10.2022, Leipzig: Institute Director Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Growitsch will give a lecture on the opportunities and challenges of a hydrogen economy in Central Germany at the event Hydrogen in Public Transport at HeiterBlick GmbH.

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Dialogue between decision-makers from politics, the energy industry, science and eastern German SMEs / 28.9.2022

11th East German Energy Forum 2022 - Energy for the Future

September 28/29, 2022, Leipzig: What does the turnaround in energy policy mean for security of supply, climate protection and energy costs in eastern Germany?

Institute Director Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Growitsch will deliver the opening lecture on energy legislation at the 11th East German Energy Forum and discuss the future of energy supply in a panel.

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Revier2030 #futuresaces. How much space does structural change need? / 6.9.2022

"Innovative spaces"

September 15, Jülich, Revier2030 #futurespaces. How much space does structural change need?, Dr. Friedrich Dornbusch talks about innovative spaces.

 

 

Social Outcomes Conference | Oxford / 8.9.2022

"The challenges of decentralisation in the Rhenish lignite mining district"

September 08, Oxford, Social Outcomes Conference, Dr. Benjamin Klement lectures on "The challenges of decentralisation in the Rhenish lignite mining district".

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34th Annual EAEPE Conference | Naples / 7.9.2022

"Enhancing international cooperation in science, technology and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals"

Sept. 07-09, Naples, The 34th Annual EAEPE Conference: Prof. Dr. Iciar Dominguez Lacasa and Manuel Molina Vogelsang present on "Enhancing international cooperation in science, technology and innovation to achieve sustainable development goals".

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Digitalzünder 2022 BreakOut Session / 6.9.2022

»Digitale Transformation im Mittelstand – Chance, Treiber, Hemnisse und Beispiele«

Mittelstand 4.0 Competence Center eStandards at Fraunhofer IMW

Holger König: "Discover in this BreakOut Session how to succeed in digitizing your business models. I will use survey results to show you what the opportunities, drivers and obstacles of digitization are in medium-sized companies. We will talk about the megatrends of digitization as well as best practices from the Mittelstand Digital network. Finally, I would like to give you an insight into the AI demonstrators from the Open Workshop Leipzig."

 

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Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW

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Phone +49 341 231039-0

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