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Am Dienstag, den 17.04.2018, findet um 18:00 Uhr in Hörsaal 11 die erste Veranstaltung der Reihe "Meet an Entrepreneur" im SoSe 2018 statt. Die Veranstaltung ist offen für Studierende sowie Universitätsangehörige aller Fakultäten, die sich für die Thematik innovativer Unternehmensgründungen interessieren. Ausführliche Informationen finden Sie in unserem Aushang.

Für Studierende, die eine Anrechnung im Modul 31-IndiErg-1 wünschen, ist eine vorherige Speicherung der Veranstaltung in ihrem Stundenplan bis spätestens zum 16.04.2018, 18:00 Uhr, erforderlich.

Herr Dr. Kaiser wird am 11. April, 17-18:30, in U3-140 einen Gastvortrag zu "Smart Home – Herausforderungen in Industrie und Forschung" halten.

Digitale Plattformen müssen zu Beginn das sogenannte Henne-Ei-Problem lösen, d.h. sie müssen gleichzeitig eine hinreichende große Anzahl an Teilnehmern für jede der beteiligten Seiten (z.B. Käufer und Verkäufer) gewinnen, wobei die Schwierigkeit darin besteht, dass Teilnehmer von einer Seite der Plattform nur beitreten, wenn ausreichend viele Teilnehmer auf der anderen Seite bereits vorhanden sind und vice versa. In der Zeitschrift Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) ist dazu ein Kurzüberblick mit dem Titel "Platform launch strategies" (Autoren sind Christian Stummer, Dennis Kundisch und Reinhold Decker) zu möglichen Strategien zur Überwindung dieses Problems erschienen. Vgl. dazu auch https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-018-0520-x.

Die Anmeldung zur Veranstaltung 312814 Seminar zum Marketing (Master) wurde verlängert und ist noch bis zum 03.04.2018, 12:00 h, über unser Online-Anmeldeformular möglich.

Frau Dr. Backs ist am 23. Januar 2018 in einer Festveranstaltung mit dem Dissertationspreis 2017 der Universitätsgesellschaft Bielefeld für hervorragende Leistungen ausgezeichnet worden. In ihrer Dissertationsschrift hat sie eine agentenbasierte Simulation entworfen, das es dem Universitätsmanagement vorab erlaubt, die Wirksamkeit von Maßnahmen – wie z.B. monetäre oder nicht-monetäre Anreize, Informationsveranstaltungen etc. – im "Ökosystem Universität" in Bezug auf die Förderung von Erfindungsmeldungen bzw. darauf aufbauend von akademischen Patenten zu testen. Ein Literaturüberblick zu dieser Arbeit wurde bereits in der Zeitschrift Management Review Quarterly publiziert; das Simulationsmodell (als zentrales Ergebnis der Arbeit) ist gerade in Begutachtung zur möglichen Veröffentlichung in einem weiteren internationalen Journal.

Weitere Berichte finden Sie auf der Facebook-Seite der Universität Bielefeld sowie in uni.aktuell.

The Department of Business Administration and Economics at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld, NRW, Germany) invites applications for a position as a

Junior Professor (W1) for Law & Economics.

Applicants should have a strong research track record in the area of Law & Economics. Candidates with a research focus on the economic analysis of legal aspects relevant for innovation, industry evolution, firm dynamics or competition are of particular interest. The position is expected to contribute to the research area ‘Economic and legal aspects of smart products’, developed in cooperation between the Department of Business Administration and Economics and the Department of Law and will be part of the (Research-) Institute for Technological Innovation, Market Development, and Entrepreneurship (iTIME).

It is expected that the successful candidate has the potential to cooperate with existing work groups in the Department of Business Administration and Economics and will make active use of the various opportunities available for engaging in interdisciplinary collaborations within Bielefeld University, in particular also with colleagues at the iTIME. The successful candidate will participate in activities at the iTIME and will contribute to the teaching within the Bachelor, Master and Doctoral programs of the Department. Furthermore, it is expected that the successful candidate actively contributes to applications for external grants. Experience in interdisciplinary research as well as in obtaining external research grants is considered a plus.

Applicants should hold a doctoral degree in a relevant field and have additional academic qualifications, as reflected in the quality of the doctoral dissertation. Publications in recognized (international) journals as well as experiences abroad and teaching experience are desirable but not required.

The employment as Junior Professor (W1) is initially limited to 3 years, with the possibility to extend it for another 3 years after a positive interim evaluation.

Applications from suitably qualified handicapped and severely handicapped persons are explicitly encouraged.

Bielefeld University has received a number of awards for its achievements in the provision of equal opportunity and has been recognized as a family-friendly university. The university welcomes applications from women. Applications are handled according to the state's equal opportunity statutes.

Applications with the usual documents are to be sent by February 14th, 2018 to:

Bielefeld University
Dean of the Department of Business Administration and Economics
P.O. Box 100131
33501 Bielefeld
GERMANY

or, preferably, by email to: lawecon@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de

The Department of Business Administration and Economics invites applications for a position as a

Junior Professor (W1) in Business Administration or Industrial Engineering for Management of Smart Products.

Bielefeld University (Bielefeld, NRW, Germany) is in the process of creating an interdisciplinary research focus on smart products/systems. As part of this development, existing areas of expertise (e.g., the Institute for Technological Innovation, Market Development, and Entrepreneurship; iTIME) will be strengthened by targeted appointments of new professors and they will be linked to corresponding institutions from other disciplines (e.g., the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology; CITEC). The position advertised here is one of these posts. The hired professor will be assigned to iTIME.

The candidate will support the Department of Business Administration and Economics in its research and teaching activities in the area of economic implications of smart products (e.g., the investigation of drivers and barriers of adoption and diffusion of smart products, corresponding (new) business models, implications on supply chains or controlling, management implications for marketing, production, research & development). The research project KogniHome might serve as a starting point for collaboration with the CITEC. We seek a candidate who has done research in at least one of the above mentioned fields and who is willing and capable to collaborate with colleagues from the engineering sciences.

It is expected that the successful candidate will make active use of the various opportunities available for engaging in interdisciplinary collaborations within Bielefeld University. The candidate is supposed to participate in activities at the iTIME and he/she will be actively involved in the Bachelor's or Master's degree program in Business Administration and Economics as well as in the supervising of PhD candidates. Furthermore, active participation in the acquisition of research funding is expected.

Experience in interdisciplinary cooperation as well as in attracting external research funding thus counts positively.
Prerequisites for awarding the post are a university degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline (e.g., Business Informatics), a relevant doctorate, and teaching aptitude. The scientific qualification for academic work is typically demonstrated by the outstanding quality of the candidate's doctorate. Publications in recognized (international) journals, teaching experiences, and experiences abroad are highly appreciated.

For further information please contact Prof. Christian Stummer (christian.stummer@uni-bielefeld.de).

The employment as Junior Professor (W1) is at first limited to 3 years, with the possibility to prolong it for another 3 years after a positive interim evaluation.

Applications with the usual documents are to be sent by Feb. 14, 2018 to:

Bielefeld University
Dean of the Department of Business Administration and Economics
P.O. Box 100131
33501 Bielefeld
GERMANY

or, preferred, by email to: ManagementIntelligenterProdukte@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de

Applications from suitably qualified handicapped and severely handicapped persons are explicitly encouraged. Bielefeld University has received a number of awards for its achievements in the provision of equal opportunity and has been recognized as a family-friendly university. The university welcomes applications from women. Applications are handled according to the state's equal opportunity statutes.

Frau Dr. Sonja Radas hat am 24. Januar einen Gastvortrag zum Thema "Uncovering Hidden Knowledge in Stated Purchase Intentions: Application of Bayesian Truth Serum" gehalten.

Abstract:
In new product development, purchase intention survey is often used for early sales forecasting and elimination of potentially failing concepts.
Regardless of its usefulness, it is known that there is a systematic discrepancy between stated purchase intentions and purchase incidence, resulting from both temporal and non-temporal causes. The latter, which are most often ascribed to systematic biases, are usually corrected by use of sophisticated statistical models which require large quantities of respondent and product related data.
In this paper we offer a new explanation for this discrepancy: we suggest that those respondents who are not sufficiently knowledgeable about the product report unreliable purchase intentions, which introduces noise in the predictions. So in order to improve forecasting precision, we propose to identify those respondents who are knowledgeable, isolate their purchase intentions and disregard the information from the others. This task is made more difficult by the fact that this knowledge is often tacit, especially for new products with higher degree of novelty.
We address this issue by building a theoretical model that can identify respondents who have tacit product related knowledge. Required data consists of answers to only two questions: (1) "will you buy the product", and (2) "what percentage of your peers will make the same choice as you". Having assumed that respondents themselves have private information about knowledgeable segments (which is invisible to the researcher), we employ the Bayesian Truth Serum methodology to uncover respondents’ belief structure.

Am Lehrstuhl für Innovations- und Technologiemanagement ist ab 1. März 2018 eine SHK-/WHF-Stelle zu besetzen. Ausführliche Informationen zur Ausschreibung finden Sie in unserem Aushang.

Am Mittwoch, den 10. Januar 2018, findet eine Exkursion zur

nobilia-Werke J. Stickling GmbH & Co. KG

in Verl statt. Ausführliche Informationen finden Sie in unserem Aushang.

Anmeldungen zur Exkursion sind ab sofort bis spätestens 20. Dezember 2017, 12:00 Uhr per Online-Anmeldung möglich.

Am Dienstag, den 12.12.2017, findet um 18:00 Uhr in X-E0-001 die zweite Veranstaltung der Reihe "Meet an Entrepreneur" im WiSe 2017/18 statt. Die Veranstaltung ist offen für Studierende sowie Universitätsangehörige aller Fakultäten, die sich für die Thematik innovativer Unternehmensgründungen interessieren. Ausführliche Informationen finden Sie in unserem Aushang.

Für Studierende, die eine Anrechnung im Modul 31-IndiErg-1 wünschen, ist eine vorherige Online-Anmeldung über unsere Website bis spätestens zum 11.12.2017, 18:00 Uhr, erforderlich.

Im Gründungsmanagement ist aktuell eine Stelle einer/s wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters/in ausgeschrieben. Die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 21.12.2017. Alle Informationen zur Ausschreibung finden Sie hier.