Helen Niemann

University of Bremen | Uni Bremen

Understanding the evolution of a technological field in the course of time is a key task in technology analysis. Analysts in research institutions as well as in companies need to know which topics are relevant for the respective technological field, which are the emerging topics, which traditional topics have been deepened in the course of time and...

The legal protection of project management–related software systems has changed recently, as patenting is spreading to the area of business methods. We investigate which parts of project management are especially confronted with this form of legal protection and how software system providers deal with this topic. Almost all the tasks of project man...

Purpose – The convergence of industries exposes the involved firms to various challenges. In such a setting, a firm's response time becomes key to its future success. Hence, different approaches to anticipating convergence have been developed in the recent past. So far, especially IPC co-classification patent analyses have been successfully applied...

Car-to-X-Communication (Car2X) represents a set of central business processes of future mobility. It possesses the potential to establish new business models built upon new business processes. In this paper we anticipate future developments in car-to-x communication by means of an information source that has only recently become available: business...

Business method patents represent a new and very serious challenge for technology management in the logistics industry, in particular for internationally operating companies. To provide some case-related insight into this field, we intend to analyse the utilisation of such patents in the context of intelligent sensor networks. We are going to devel...

The convergence of industries exposes the involved firms to various challenges - e.g., changes in technological paradigms or even in entire value chains. In such a setting, a firm's response time becomes key for its future success. Hence, different approaches to anticipate convergence have been developed in the recent past. Building on the well-acc...

Business method patents represent a new challenge for technology management in the logistics industry. (i) They open up possibilities of patenting to companies which have never before utilized this kind of property right. Hence, the technology management is challenged to implement a patent strategy that stands up to patent-driven changes in the com...