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Ralf Albert Isenmann

Ralf Albert Isenmann
Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule - Mobile University of Technology · Industrial Engineering and Technology Management

Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil., Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing.
Vice Dean Department Industrial Engineering and Technology Management

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Introduction
Professor Business Administration - Management of Innovations & Technologies, Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule - Mobile University of Technology; & Professor Sustainability Management & Innovation Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde former: IPMI | Institute of Project Management and Innovation, Universität Bremen Research: - technology/corporate foresight: scenario, delphi, roadmapping, innovation/strategic planning, - sustainability management, industrial ecology, CSR reporting
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November 2016 - March 2018
Universität Bremen
Position
  • Senior Researcher
October 2012 - August 2016
Munich University of Applied Sciences
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  • Professor (Full)
April 2011 - August 2012
Universität Kassel
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  • Professor (temporary)
Description
  • Interimship

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Publications (375)
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Contains papers by leading European, American and Asian experts ▶ Provides orientation regarding different methods of technology roadmapping and their interconnections ▶ Supplies readers with a compilation of the most important submethods ▶ Embeds and links technology roadmapping in the framework of management research Technology roadmapping is a c...
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Industrial symbiosis activities show considerable diversity across social contexts. Within the boundaries of Europe alone, substantial differences exist in the ways that industrial symbiosis manifests itself. This variability presents challenges to define and identify the phenomena in the context of an internationally comparative study. This chapte...
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As an emerging discipline, industrial ecology represents a promising interdisciplinary field that studies industrial systems and their fundamental linkage with nature. At the root of its scientific profile lies a refreshingly different perspective on nature as a model in comparison with other disciplines' orthodox understanding nature in terms of a...
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Online reporting describes an emerging digital reporting approach based on support through current information and communication technology (ICT), particularly on the internet. Such a computer-based method provides an array of medium-specific capabilities and technical benefits to improve sustainability communication, both for companies (reporters)...
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In this paper we present a sophisticated method to exploit bionic inventions in patents with the help of semantic patent analysis. This method enables users to visualize similarities in patent content in a semantic patent map. These maps could be used for strategic decision-making, e.g. for developing technologies and commercial usage and – no less...
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Education for sustainable development (ESD) is key for all stakeholders in higher education who want to move forward in terms of sustainability. No matter how universities may structure main fields of action—like research, teaching, the so-called “third mission” or outreach respectively, governance, and operation management—ESD undeniably represent...
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Im Beitrag wird am konkreten Fallbeispiel der Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule – Mobile University of Technology (WBH), Darmstadt, analysiert und beschrieben, wie eine private Fernhochschule Nachhaltigkeit in technischen Fächern und Studiengängen umsetzt. Die WBH ist die führende private Fernhochschule für Technik in Deutschland, mit rund 6.000 Studiere...
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Universities may use the current momentum to implement higher education for sustainable development (ESD) into curricula and syllabi. No matter how universities may structure core businesses and main fields of actions-like research, teaching, transfer as so-called "third mission", governance, and operation management-ESD undeniably represents the c...
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Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement goes digital. Erklärungsansatz, konzeptionelle Verankerung, Anwendungen. Keynote zum Stakeholder-Dialog: „ERP-Systeme als digitale Steuerungsinstrumente für das Umweltmanagement“ im UBA-Forschungsvorhaben: „Digitalisierung ökologisch nachhaltig nutzbar machen“, BMU/UBA Berlin, 21.11.2019.
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Universities have various options to implement higher education for sustainable development (ESD) into curricula and syllabi, and incorporate sustainability into students’ daily routine and life on campus. Despite considerable progress they have made in the last years, a comprehensive system for ESD that goes beyond good practice examples is still...
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Background and Research Focus: Universities have various options to implement sustainability in their core businesses, be it higher education, teaching, curricula and syllabi, research and outreach as external fields of action and management systems, governance, communications (e.g. Isenmann et al. 2018), operations with infrastructure like buildin...
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Rezension zu Patrick Bungard: CSU und Geschäftsmodelle (2018): Auf dem Weg zum zeitgemäßen Wirtschaften. Wiesbaden: Gabler.
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Rezension zu Adam Lindgren et al. (Eds.) (2018): Communicatij Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Area. London: Routledge. Ökologisches Wirtschaften 33(4): 55.
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Rezension zu Peter Horvath; Judith M. Püttner (2017): Sustainability Reporting in Central and Eastern Companies. Berlin: Springer. Ökologisches Wirtschaften 33(1): 56.
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DelphiNE: Ermittlung von Ressourcenschonungspotenzialen in der Nichteisenmetallindustrie durch eine Zukunftsanalyse nach der Delphi-Methode Abschlussbericht
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TRIFOLD- technology transfer through customized capacity development measures in Tunisian Research Centers – making process-driven adaptation (PDIA), innoSpice and technology roadmapping work
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TRIFOLD - Technology Transfer in Tunisian Research Centers – the case for Technology Roadmapping
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TRIFOLD - Technology Transfer in Tunisian Research Centers – the case for Technology Roadmapping
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Morphologischer Kasten zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung - Orientierung für Hochschulen zur Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre
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Internationales Projekt „TRIFOLD“ zum Thema Technologietransfer
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Morphological box for ESD – landmark for universities implementing sustainability development
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Rezension zu André Presse; Orestis Terzidis (Eds.) (2018): Technology Entrepreneurship. Insights in New Technology-Based Firms, Research Spin-offs and Corporate Environments. Berlin: Springer. Ökologisches Wirtschaften (34(1): 54.
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CSR reporting current trends and recent developments in EU
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This paper aims to investigate the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in universities' sustainability reports as a practice applied from the business sector. We conduct exploratory analyses based on the Isenmann and Marx Gómez (2008) evaluation framework by investigating the distribution channels and medial availability as well...
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is about to gain momentum in the EU, especially after the introduction of the Directive 2014/95/EU. It lays down rules for large companies to disclose specific information on social and environmental impacts of their operations. The Directive, which has been ongoingly implemented into national laws by...
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is about to gain momentum in the EU, especially after the introduction of the Directive 2014/95/EU. It lays down rules for large companies to disclose specific information on social and environmental impacts of their operations. The Directive, which has been ongoingly implemented into national laws by...
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In the more than 25 years since sustainability reporting first became a topic of broader interest in academia, business, governments, standard setting institutions and various organizations, sustainability reporting has rapidly grown to a field of increasing relevance for various reporting entities and for their respective stakeholders. This deve...
Conference Paper
Focus: The non-ferrous metals industry plays an important role contributing to a sustainable economic development in Germany. Production and manufacturing of non-ferrous metals and alloys are highly resource and energy intensive, inducing environmental impacts. In the years to come, challenges are to be expected. These are resulting from an intende...
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Research Focus: The contribution investigates how technology roadmapping has been used as a sound, appealing, and hands-on instrument to improve research valorization of six Tunisian research centers – embedded and illustrated by the German-Tunisian technology transfer project “TRIFOLD”. The TRIFOLD project is financed by the German Federal Minis...
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This paper aims to investigate the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in universities' sustainability reports as a practice applied from the business sector. We conduct exploratory analyses based on the Isenmann and Marx Gómez (2008) evaluation framework by investigating the distribution channels and medial availability as well...
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Zweck – Im Beitrag wird die Digitalisierung als Handlungsfeld nachhaltiger Un-ternehmensführung empirisch untersucht, quantitativ durch eine leitfadengestützte Befragung sowie qualitativ durch drei Experteninterviews. Um den facettenreichen Zusammenhang zwischen Digitalisierung einerseits und nachhaltiger Unternehmensführung andererseits konkret zu...
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TRIFOLD- technology transfer through customized capacity developmend measures in Tunisian Research Centers – making process-driven adaptation (PDIA), innoSPICE and technology roadmapping work Keywords: capacity development, hydroponic cultivation, innoSPICE, process-driven iterative adaptation (PDIA), technology roadmapping, technology transfer, T...
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Im Beitrag wird die Digitalisierung als Treiber zur Unterstützung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung an Hochschulen betrachtet. Um den Zusammenhang zwischen Digitalisierung einerseits und Nachhaltigkeit an Hochschulen andererseits konzeptionell zu fassen, werden zunächst die möglichen Sichtweisen auf Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit an Hochschulen sk...
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Keywords - Digitalisierung, Mittelständische Unternehmen, Nachhaltige Unter-nehmensführung Zweck – Im Beitrag wird die Digitalisierung als Handlungsfeld nachhaltiger Un-ternehmensführung empirisch untersucht, quantitativ durch eine leitfadengestützte Befragung sowie qualitativ durch drei Experteninterviews. Um den facettenreichen Zusammenhang zwis...
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Im Beitrag wird ein morphologischer Kasten als umfassende - feldüberdeckende - Übersicht entworfen, wie Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre (BNE) an Hochschulen generell ausgestaltet werden kann, hier speziell in der grundständigen und postgradualen Fernlehre. Um Einsatz und Nutzen des morphologischen Kastens zu BNE zu veranschaulichen, werden aktuelle Pra...
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The contribution investigates how technology roadmapping is applied as an instrument for technology transfer, illustrated by six Tunisian Research Centers. Such application quite new for technology transfer - representing the target domain - as well as for technology roadmapping - representing the instrument being used - is described by the TRIFOLD...
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There are many ways at university level to implement higher education for sustainable development (ESD) into curricula and courses, and further to incorporate these into students’ daily routine and life on campus (e.g. Wals & Jickling 2002; Geli & Leal Filho 2006; OECD 2007; Shepard 2007; Starik et al. 2010; Bacon et al. 2011; Stupps & Schapper 201...
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Im Beitrag wird eine feldüberdeckende Übersicht entworfen, wie Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre (BNE) an Hochschulen ausgestaltet werden kann: Diese Übersicht liefert ein morphologischer Kasten zur BNE. Um die insgesamt mehr als 20 Millionen Ausprägungsmöglichkeiten und damit Einsatz und Nutzen des morphologischen Kastens zur BNE zu veranschaulichen, we...
Technical Report
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New challenges for the non-ferrous metals industry are to be expected. These challenges result from: ► an intended transition to a green and circular economy , ► the necessities of an economy-wide energy transition, ► growing product complexities, and-no less important-► an increasing criticality of various non-ferrous metals. This recommendation p...
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New challenges for the non-ferrous metals industry are to be expected. These challenges result from: ► an intended transition to a green and circular economy , ► the necessities of an economy-wide energy transition, ► growing product complexities, and-no less important-► an increasing criticality of various non-ferrous metals. This recommendation p...
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As institutions educating future decision-makers, universities are responsible for the sustainable development of society. This responsibility goes along with the call for (sustainable) competence-orientated teaching. The call for competence-orientated teaching implies—among others—the need for rethinking and realigning university didactics and the...
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Book review: Patrick Bungard (Hrsg.): CSR und Geschäftsmodelle. Auf dem Weg zum zeitgemäßen Wirtschaften. Springer Gabler, 2018, Ökologischen Wirtschaften 2018 (2): 53-54.
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As institutions educating future decision makers, universities are responsible for the sustainable development of society. This responsibility goes along with the call for (sustainable) competence-orientated teaching. The call for competence-orientated teaching implies - among others - the need for rethinking and realigning university didactics and...
Technical Report
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This expert-workshop focused on two important aspects of resource savings in the non-ferrous metals industry: "waste treatment and recycling" and "energy generation and use in the non-ferrous metals industry". Both topics are of critical relevance for the EU agenda on resource efficiency. The documentation of the workshop consists of-The backgrou...
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Here we report on a survey and a discussion among German non-ferrous metals experts from industry, science, and legislation about resource savings potentials in the industry (DelphiNE). The results were presented at the EMC 2017 in Leipzig and have been discussed and commented by international experts during this event. The DelphiNE research proje...
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is about to gain momentum, in the EU especially since the Directive 2014/95/EU which is about to be implemented into national law by its member states. In Germany, it becomes effective for large businesses from 2017 on. This special issue solicits papers dealing with any relevant topics and solutions...
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Die erste Auflage dieses Buchs haben wir unserem akademischen Lehrer und Mentor, Herrn Prof. Dr. Heiner Müller-Merbach, zur (nach Aussage des Jubilars) eher belanglosen fünften Wiederkehr seines 13. Geburtstags am 28. Juni 2001 gewidmet. Die zweite Auflage widmeten wir ihm zu seiner Emeritierung im Herbst 2004, die dritte zu seinem 70. Geburtstag,...
Technical Report
The project DelphiNE has the following central objectives: Initiation of a discussion on the role of the non-ferrous metal industry in a "green economy" and elaboration of possible development scenarios. The focus areas include the substitution of primary raw materials by secondary raw materials, the substitution of fossil fuels and reducing agents...
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Introduction to basic terms and strategies approaching sustainability successfull applications & good practice examples experiences & management guidelines ICT & software tools to support descision making processes
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DelphiNE - investigating resource saving potentials in the German non-ferrous metals industry through the Delphi foresight method commissioned by Umweltbundesamt (research grant no. FKZ 371393306)
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Zweck – Im Beitrag wird eine umfassende und feldüberdeckende Übersicht entworfen und vorgestellt, wie Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre – BNE – an Hoch-schulen ausgestaltet werden kann: Diese Übersicht liefert ein so genannter morphologischer Kasten für BNE. Um die insgesamt mehr als 20 Millionen Ausprägungsmöglichkeiten zu veranschaulichen, werden Praxi...
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The Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) is developing education for sustainable development (ESD) as a strategic issue, in a straightforward manner, and based on a sound methodology. Contrary to a one-off effort as most fashionable short term projects are conducted in a pick and mix approach, MUAS follows a long term development path to in...
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Cheaponomics describes the current economic paradigm and practice that the price of common products - and services - like jeans, smart phones and sneakers do not tell the full truth and true costs. Instead the economic (patho-)logic is: privatize the profit whereas at the same time externalize human, social and environmental costs. A potential powe...
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Das betriebliche Technologiemanagement hat ein vielfältiges Aufgabenspektrum: Es ist für den Erwerb, die Bewahrung, den Schutz sowie die Verwertung technologischer Kompetenz zuständig und trägt darüber hinaus die Verantwortung für die möglichst robuste und marktzugewandte technologische Positionierung des Unternehmens (vgl. zu den Umfängen des Tech...
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Die Leitung kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) unterscheidet sich in Vielem von der Leitung großer Unternehmen. Das betrifft die Differenziertheit der Aufbauorganisation ebenso wie die Verfügbarkeit spezieller Abteilungen und Fachkräfte, die beispielsweise die strategische Planung zu verantworten haben. Das betrifft aber auch den Zugang zu Inf...
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So vielfältig auch die Erscheinungsformen, Einsatzgebiete und Anwendungsfelder des Technologie-Roadmapping sind, so gibt es doch etliche Gemeinsamkeiten, Grundstrukturen und übertragbare Vorgehensweisen. Auf sie beziehen sich die folgenden Ausführungen zum Technologie-Roadmapping, die in fünf thematisch zusammengehörige Teile gebündelt sind (Abb. 2...
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Das Buch liefert das Handwerkszeug, um Zukunftsstrategien für Technologieunternehmen zu entwerfen, deren technologische Position im Zeitablauf auszubauen, Marktchancen frühzeitig aufzuspüren und Ressourcen zielorientiert einzusetzen. Leistungsfähige und erprobte Kernwerkzeuge wie das szenariogestützte explorative und das TRIZ-basierte Technologie-R...
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The presentation describes how SMEs could benefit from incentive systems for improving their innovation management and capabilities.
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Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) is developing education for sustainable development (ESD) as a strategic issue and based on a sound methodology, in contrast to a one-off effort as most fashionable short term projects and pick and mix approaches. Thereby MUAS follows a long term development path to incorporate sustainability across all...
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Ziele und Inhalte: Das Projekt zielt auf die Entwicklung von Gestaltungskompetenz im Rahmen eines transdisziplinären Lehrformats. Gleichzeitig soll durch die Kooperation mit externen Partnern aus Gesellschaft und Politik ein konkreter Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung auf lokaler Ebene geschaffen werden. Hochschule: Hochschule für Angewandte Wi...
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The presentation describes a concept for innovation management custimized for the needs and requirements of SMEs - along characteristics of the roadmapping approach.
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This contribution describes the innovative course format “ZukunftGestalten@HM - Future City” at the Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS), including its unique features from a higher educational perspective for sustainable development (ESD). The features that make this innovative course format challenging and unique compared to other formats...
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The Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) is developing education for sustainable development (ESD) as a strategic issue, in a straightforward manner, and based on a sound methodology. Contrary to a one-off effort as most fashionable short term projects are conducted in a pick and mix approach, MUAS follows a long term development path to in...
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This paper describes how modularity is implemented in a roadmapping framework so that from a set of stand-alone roadmaps each could be used as an interconnected module, vertically and horizontally perfectly fitting together in an overall integrated roadmap describing a broad landscape of corresponding developments in technologies, products, applica...
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The Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) is developing education for sustainable development (ESD) as a strategic issue, in a straightforward manner, and based on a sound methodology. Contrary to a one-off effort as most fashionable short term projects are conducted in a pick and mix approach, MUAS follows a long term development path to in...
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Die Natur als ein mögliches Vorbild für das Wirtschaften zu betrachten, markiert einen Schritt auf dem Weg zur Biokratie. Die Sichtweise hilft, um der Natur in der Ökonomie und bei der Inanspruchnahme ihrer Ressourcen und Funktionen beim Wirtschaften zu ihrem Recht zu verhelfen. Diese Sichtweise knüpft an aktuell diskutierte Ansätze wie „Raumschiff...
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Recent years have seen a fundamental shift in the way many companies view climate change. In a carbon-constrained economy companies have begun to implement carbon strategies in order to reduce their carbon footprint, adapt to environmental regulations and/or investigate new business opportunities. Current information and communication technologies...
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Trotz steigender Verbreitung scheint das Technologie-Roadmapping bislang vorwiegend in Großunternehmen eingesetzt zu werden. Zum einen legen dies die in der einschlägigen Literatur (vgl. Bucher 2003) dokumentierten Fallbeispiele nahe, darunter Motorola (vgl. Willyard & McClees 1987), Philips (vgl. Groenveld 1997), Honeywell (vgl. Petrick & Echols 2...
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Das betriebliche Technologiemanagement hat ein vielfältiges Aufgabenspektrum: Es ist für den Erwerb, die Bewahrung, den Schutz sowie die Verwertung technologischer Kompetenz zuständig und trägt darüber hinaus die Verantwortung für die möglichst robuste und marktzugewandte technologische Positionierung des Unternehmens (vgl. zu den Umfängen des Tech...
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So vielfältig auch die Erscheinungsformen, Einsatzgebiete und Anwendungsfelder des Technologie-Roadmapping sind, so gibt es doch etliche Gemeinsamkeiten, Grundstrukturen und übertragbare Vorgehensweisen. Auf sie beziehen sich die folgenden Ausführungen zum Technologie-Roadmapping, die in fünf thematisch zusammengehörige Teile gebündelt sind: • ein...
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The presentation describes a new course format developed and offered for the first time at Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS), Faculty of Business Adminstration, Course of Study: Business Entrepreneutrship and Digital Technology Management (BEDITEM), while highlighting the characteristic features in terms of education for sustainable deve...
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Technologie-Roadmapping liefert das Handwerkszeug, um Zukunftsstrategien für Technologieunternehmen zu entwerfen, deren technologische Position im Zeitablauf auszubauen, Marktchancen frühzeitig aufzuspüren und Ressourcen zielorientiert einzusetzen. Leistungsfähige und erprobte Kernwerkzeuge wie das szenariogestützte explorative und das TRIZ-basiert...
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Dynamics, current issues and future trends in sustainability reporting in universities
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Overview and current trends ”environmental information systems and digitalization”
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Die vorliegende „Technologie-Roadmap Stationäre Energiespeicher 2030“ betrachtet ausgehend von dem heutigen Technologieportfolio für stationäre Energiespeicherlösungen deren Entwicklungspotenziale bis 2030. Dabei werden zunächst Referenztechnologien in jeweils vier Klassen von Speichergrößen und typischen Lade- und Entladezeiten eingeteilt. Die Roa...
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Die Sichtweise der Natur als Vorbild des Wirtschaftens klingt für manche Ökonomen erstaunlich, tönt womöglich nach Ökodiktatur und ruft deshalb sofort Zweifel hervor. Für andere hingegen leuchtet der mögliche Vorbildcharakter der Natur unmittelbar ein, kann sie doch ein Muster für vielerlei vorbildhafte Phänomene, Funktionsweisen, Strukturen und Pr...
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This book covers updated perspectives on eco-industrial parks across the world. It is an excellent work done by researchers with different background and culture. History, barriers, institutional arrangements, policies, waste management, and greenhouse gas emissions, together with eco-industrial parks, are all discussed so that decision makers from...
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Der Energiesektor zählt mit zu den Schlüsselbranchen einer Volkswirtschaft. In den Rechnungslegungsvorschriften für Energieversorgungsunternehmen sind sowohl eine hohe Regulierungsdichte als auch dynamische Entwicklungen zu beobachten, mit Signalwirkung für andere Branchen. Dieser Beitrag soll veranschaulichen, welche neuen Gestaltungschancen sich...

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