Indicators for Innovation Systems: Interactions Between the Science and the Business Sector and Absorptive Capacity of Firms

Indicators for Innovation Systems: Interactions Between the Science and the Business Sector and Absorptive Capacity of Firms

In this research project we present the commonly employed set of innovation indicators and demonstrate the limitations thereof. Our target is to develop new approaches in order to tackle and remedy these identified shortcomings along the set of innovation indicators. We particularly aim at the question, how can we represent accurately with indicators the interplay of different, single actors within an innovation system? On the one hand, we examine the knowledge transfer between actors. And on the other hand, we investigate the actors’ prerequisites and conditions that are necessary for achieving an effective knowledge transfer. While doing so we consider that new intelligent and digital technologies as well as new organizational forms significantly change the interaction and communication processes of actors within a system.  In short, we target to advance the established set of innovation indicators particularly in the following three areas:

  1. new indicators for actors’ interactions and knowledge transfer
  2. new indicators for implementing external knowledge in organizations
  3. validity of established indicators on interaction and knowledge transfer as well as of synoptic indicator systems on an international comparison

Project members

Dr. Bastian Krieger

Dr. Bastian Krieger

Project Coordinator
Head of the Junior Research Group "Co-Creation"

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Josefine Diekhof

Josefine Diekhof

Project Coordinator
Advanced Researcher

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Dr. Christian Rammer

Dr. Christian Rammer

Deputy

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Dr. Georg Licht

Dr. Georg Licht

Research Associate

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Selected Publications

Selected Events

Workshop

Wie(viel) Wissen fließt

Innovationen rufen Veränderungen hervor und eröffnen neue Märkte. Sie entstehen häufig durch Kooperationen zwischen Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft. Ein effektiver Wissenstransfer zwischen den beiden Sektoren…

Workshop

Innovationsfähigkeit in Zeiten der Krise: Erfolgsfaktor Unternehmenskultur

Hintergrund

Während sich das deutsche Innovationssystem bisher stetig und strukturbewahrend gewandelt hat, hat das Auftreten der COVID-19-Pandemie zu abrupten Veränderungen in kürzester Zeit geführt.…

Contact

Bastian Krieger
Head of the Junior Research Group "Co-Creation"
Dr. Bastian Krieger
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