The following employees are to be contacted primarily: Natalie Mahlert or Nina Schlömer

• Digital transformation and tensions in various industries
• Digital transformation in the public sector, e.g. in administration or in the public health sector
• Industry convergence and industry transformation - analysing current examples
• Digital transformation and routine dynamics
• Analysis of digital transformation processes for selected examples
• Digital transformation in start-ups and established companies
• Digital transformation and changing practices
• Digital transformation and organisational change

The following employee is to be contacted primarily: Nina Schlömer

• "Top-down" and/or "bottom-up" digitalisation initiatives in the public sector
• (Non-)transformation of practices or routines through digital transformation processes in established public sector organisations
• Tensions, paradoxes and/or challenges in the course of digitalisation initiatives in the public sector
• Historical lines of development and their role for digitalisation initiatives in the public sector

Specific real-life phenomena from different areas and levels of the public sector (federal government, federal states, cities, municipalities, public organisations, universities, non-profit organisations, ...) are welcome.

The following employees should be contacted primarily: Tim Schurig or Arthur Kari will provide support for the following key topics:

• Operationalization and measurability of the Digital Responsibility Goals (DRG) through a framework (e.g. creation of a DRG index) using the example of the Public Data Space Health-X

The following employees should be contacted primarily: Natalie Mahlert or Prof. Dr. Martin Gersch will take care of the following key topics:

• Business model expansion/change from the perspective of the dynamic capabilities approach
• Analysis of organizational changes from the perspective of dynamic capabilities
• Digital transformation and dynamic capabilities
• Literature review of Dynamic Capabilities research in the period 2013-2020/2021
• Design-oriented questions
• Typologization of evaluation strategies in the design of IT artifacts in design science research

The following employees should be contacted primarily for the following main topics: Alexa Danelski, Tim Schurig or Arthur Kari

• Economic analysis of innovative e-health/digital health applications, e.g. as part of the Innovation Fund, Hospital Future Act, Medical Informatics Initiative
• Generating benefits through patient communities
• Analysing digital health innovations from the perspective of tensions
• Economic analysis of innovative business models in digital health, e.g:
  • Health platforms and emerging ecosystems
  • Electronic patient records
  • Telemedicine
  • Digital health and care applications (DiGA, DiPA)
• Barriers, challenges, tensions of integration processes of electronic patient records (ePA) as well as digital health applications (DiGA) or care applications (DiPA)
• Value networks in comparison of German and American healthcare systems - analysis of relevant stakeholders in the healthcare data space
• Paradigm shift of the business model from proprietary to interoperable interfaces using the example of PVS or HIS manufacturers
• Economic, critical or future-oriented analysis of the interoperability of various applications in the area of telematics infrastructure (TI), e.g. electronic patient records (ePA), ePrescription, DiGAs or DiPAs

The following employees should be contacted primarily: Catharina Werner or Tim Schurig will provide support for the following key topics:

• Which pedagogical approaches increase learning success through digital teaching?
• Good e-learning, bad e-learning - what have we learned from the pandemic?
• Blended Learning – Which content is suitable for being taught digitally?
• Humboldt’s educational ideal and digital teaching – how is the unity of research and teaching conveyed digitally?
• Career preparation at university – How can blended learning be used to prepare for a career?

The following employee should be contacted primarily: Catharina Werner takes care of the following key topics:

• How are entrepreneurial skills taught through university teaching?
• How can an entrepreneurial mindset be promoted through teaching?
• Literature research: Which institutional logics determine the actions of founders?

The following employee should be contacted primarily: Jun. Prof. Dr. Janina Sundermeier takes care of the following key topics:

• Advantages and limitations of various tools for business model development. Factors influencing the emergence of individual/organizational overconfidence (hubris) in the start-up context
• Effects of individual/organizational overestimation of oneself (hubris) in the start-up context Analysis of the codeshare network between 230 airlines (secondary data analysis)
• Analysis of the cooperation between startups and established companies from the perspective of dynamic capability/absorptive capacity
• Literature research on cooperation between startups and established companies
• What learning processes do startups experience in the course of collaborations with established companies?
• Do we need more of “those” Steve Jobs or Elon Musks? Functional and dysfunctional effects of hubris in the process of founding (IT) companies
• Do entrepreneurs go to their heads with their success? Factors influencing the emergence of hubris in the process of founding an (IT) company
• How does hubris influence the success of an elevator pitch?
• What events in the life cycle of a young (IT) company do entrepreneurs learn from? (e.g. experimental approach conceivable)
• How does experience with different financing options shape the behavior of (IT) serial founders? (first data available)
• Business model innovation through science-based start-ups?! Translation strategies from basic research

The following employees should be contacted primarily: Natalie Mahlert, Alexa Danelski, or Björn Kral

• Economic analyzes of innovative business models (in various industries), e.g.:
  • Food home delivery
  • Mail order/internet pharmacies
  • Platform ecosystem
  • Service robotics

The following employees should be contacted primarily: Tim Schurig or Arthur Kari will provide support for the following key topics:

• Conceptualization, design and management of public data spaces and emerging ecosystems
• Properties, design principles and special features in the design of public (health) data spaces (with reference to the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation Proposal)
• Interests, requirements and expectations regarding the functions of the provider of a (health) data room (e.g. with regard to private-public partnerships)
• Designing the conflict of objectives between data sharing and data ownership (data user and data holder) of federated public data spaces - consideration of various governance aspects
• (Change in) the tasks and functions of the providers of public data spaces over the typical development course (time-varying strategy options)
• Comparison of the governance functions of traditional (multi-sided) platforms and federated public data spaces (e.g. based on Gaia-X).
• Hurdles and tensions between providers and complementors of exemplary platform provider models in private digital platforms and public (health) data spaces
• (Preliminary) analysis of the design of the integration process of innovative complementors in growing data spaces
• Business models and/or exploitation strategies for health applications in federated data spaces (e.g. clinical companion, personalized health, secondary use of health data and data wallet applications based on stakeholder-differentiated acceptance analyses)
• Development of digital applications (through complementors) according to the DSR approach to achieve Health-X and Gaia-X goals
• Interoperability of federated data spaces: Design of an IT artifact according to the DSR approach, e.g.:
  • the interoperable integration of healthcare applications
  • for measuring data quality based on an interoperability maturity level
• Various data trust models (and their feasibility in federated data spaces)
• Incentive mechanisms for sharing data and existing barriers to sharing data, particularly in private sector organizations (facilitated by funded data spaces to reduce barriers that currently exist?)
• Organizational data culture and federated data spaces

The following employees should be contacted primarily: Tim Schurig or Arthur Kari

• Platform strategies of selected platforms
• Balancing platform governance
• Operator and business models of platform-based data ecosystems to enable smart services
• Comparison of platform and ecosystem design parameters of different industries (technical, economic, legal or political perspective)
• Participation opportunities in data ecosystems and implications for value co-creation
• Scaling an ecosystem in terms of citizen participation and innovators through various incentive mechanisms
• Interoperability, complementary services including digital therapeutics (DTx), digital health applications (DiGAs, apps on prescription) and digital care applications (DiPA)
• Various data trust models (and their feasibility in federated data spaces)
• Incentive mechanisms for data sharing and existing barriers to data sharing, especially in private sector organisations (with facilitation through federated data spaces to break down current barriers?)
• Organisational data culture and federated data spaces

The following employee is to be contacted primarily: Nina Schlömer

• Underlying assumptions in research on real-world phenomena (e.g. digital transformation)
• Critical examination of dominant methods, conceptualisations and theories in information systems research
• Reflection on visualisations in information systems research (we are happy to supervise this topic in the summer term 2024—please contact Nina Schlömer for more information)