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1. Key Issues

The project focuses on the organisation and design of aspects of human resources management and development at Japanese and German manufacturers with the emphasis on Toyota and Volkswagen. Among the main aspects under study are the design of career systems, pay and incentive systems (especially with respect to Kaizen), performance appraisal, and further training.

2. Field and Focus of Research

Research is conducted at the levels of the central organisation and plants of the firms in Japan and Germany. Of particular interest are:

The PROKNOW project aims at analysing the interactions between public research institutions and academic spin-offs focusing on the impact of entrepreneurial and scientific activities on the academic research system. Based upon approaches in organisational sociology, science policy studies and science studies and analyzing the gains and losses of spin-off activities for public research institutions, PROKNOW examines the relevance of public and private forms of knowledge in innovative processes of knowledge production. Academic spin-offs often epitomize innovative forms of knowledge production and are thus an exemplary topic to study innovation processes in the interaction of science, economy and society.

I. Objectives

Das Projekt untersucht in Form einer Evaluation die Wirkungen des EXIST-III-Förderprogramms auf die Stimulierung und Etablierung einer Gründungskultur an Universitäten und Hochschulen.

Das vom BMBF geförderte Projekt "Wissenschaftsunternehmer: Typus, Merkmale und Erfolgsbedingungen von akademischen Grenzgängern" zielt anhand von Beispielen aus den Go-Bio- und BioFuture-Wettbewerben und des Emmy Noether-Programms auf die Entwicklung eines Typus Wissenschaftsentrepreneur, seine Rückwirkungen auf die Qualität der Wissenschaft und die förderpolitischen Rahmenbedingungen.

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Emerging technologies change the institution of citizenship and reconceptualize membership and belonging. While the scale of this transformation is unknown, new technologies are already blurring the lines between physical and digital, local and global. Law enforcement agencies employ Artificial Intelligence (AI), data mining, and machine learning to create an algorithmic identity that uses online activity to predict “digital citizenship”; genetic advances expand the understanding of ancestry and migration history—which has been labelled “genetic citizenship”; states use AI and big data technologies for “citizenship gamification”; and blockchain undermines the concept of the state and enable the creation of a decentralized “cloud citizenship.”