A Guest Lecture by Mark Miller from Carlsquare

A Managerial Summary of Our Research in Harvard Business Review

ICOs represent a new type of financing method that enables start-ups to collect capital from a large number of mainly small investors. Carolin Brückmann addresses to ICO investors to show how investors navigate this new kind of investment environment. The composition and interaction of various investor groups was investigated along three studies. Furthermore, she analysed to what extent investors are able to select successful start-ups in a targeted manner. Examiners: Prof.

Examiners: Prof. Dr. Christoph Ihl and Prof. Dr. Christian Lüthje Day of Oral Doctoral Examination: 29.09.2021

Examiners: Prof. Dr. Christoph Ihl and Prof. Dr. Henry Sauermann Day of Oral Doctoral Examination: 26.06.2020

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Christoph Ihl and Alexander Vossen presented their paper - Copyright Or Copy Right? Unsolicited User Behavior As Market Signals

The 14. Conference on Innovation and Value Creation took place at Martin-Luther-Universitaet in Halle-Wittenberg from November 28 to 30, 2019. All of our researchers together with Christoph Ihl participated in this research colloquium and took the chance to exchange and discuss their recent research results in this community. Every year members of renowned universities meet having research backgrounds such as innovation management, entrepreneurship, organization and workplace design, information systems, and public policy.

The FGF Norbert Szyperski Technologie and Innovation Management Award 2019 was given to Christoph Ihl and Jan Niklas Wick.

The Annual Conference of the Scientific Commission of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TIE) took place from 11. to 13. September 2019 at TU Darmstadt.

The main topic was - Undestanding the inclusive Organization

Exploring the Future of Management, Facts, Fashion and Fado

This dissertation examines how the structure of social networks affects entrepreneurial entry. It analyses the effects of social influence and status on individuals’ decision to launch a new, self-generated offering. Previous works have demonstrated these effects, but have not yet been able to uncover the underlying mechanisms. Based on network theory, we derive hypotheses about proximity-based contagion and status-based convergence mechanisms and test them in the context of the comics industry with event analyses and panel data mapping the careers of more than 11,000 creators from 1988 to 2014.

This specialized AOM Conference took place in Tel Aviv from December 17 to 19, 2018 and was hosted by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Tel Aviv University in collaboration with the AOM Divisions & Interest Groups. Christoph Ihl participated in this great event.

Leading German and German-speaking researchers met to work on topics such as Technology- Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.

Multiple studies validated effects of institutions on the diffusion of scientific innovations, but there is a lack in explaining emergence and change of institutions. The institutional entrepreneurship approach faces this limitations and models, how institutional entrepreneurs diffuse an institutional logic to then create institutions in order to facilitate diffusion of innovations. In this thesis, three studies endeavor to validate this end-to-end process beginning from institutional entrepreneurs diffusing a logic to the impact of created institutions on the diffusion of innovation.

The present thesis investigates several technology transfer channels in the context of university-industry knowledge transfer. Both traditional channels such as collaborative research or academic patenting and innovative alternatives such as broadcast search are considered. Theoretical advances and implications for policy can be derived by implementing novel methods from the field of Data Science. Examiners: Prof. Dr. Christoph Ihl and Prof. Dr. Robin Kleer Day of Oral Doctoral Examination: 09.02.2018

In 2018 the Annual Meeting of the AOM took place in Chicago

The 16th International Open and User Innovation Conference was held from August 6-8, 2018 at the Stern School of Business at New York University. The OUI Conference is the leading academic conference on Open and User Innovation.

Research in action, accelerating knowledge creation in management, was this year’s topic.

The Effect of Choosing Teams and Ideas on Entrepreneurial Performance - Evidence from a Field Experiment was presented by Viktoria Kessler, Christoph Ihl, Linus Dahlander (ESMT) and Rajshri Jayaraman (ESMT). Herding in Equity Crowdfunding Markets - Heterogeneity Between Experts and Amateurs was another paper by Jan Niklas Wick and Christoph Ihl WHAT We Know versus WHO We Know, was Dimitri Graf’s paper presented on this conference.

This dissertation sheds light on how the categorical fit between venture capitalists and startups affect the matching process before a funding round. The study uses market categories to measure new venture’s distinctiveness and the cultural distance between venture capitalists and new ventures. The empirical analysis of 11 years of venture capital investment data in the USA confirms that experienced and high status investors prefer more distinctive new ventures and that the negative effect of cultural distance on the investment probability is mitigated by venture capitalists portfolio diversification and status.

The thesis with the topic Media judgment of entrepreneurial failure – implications for founders compares media reporting about failure of startups in Germany and the US. It can be shown, that the US media reports more positively about failed startups, than the German media does. Examiners: Prof. Dr. Christoph Ihl and Prof. Dr. Michel Clement Day of Oral Doctoral Examination: 02.03.2018

This years’ research colloquium on “Innovation and Value Creation” took place in Hamburg. Around 60 to 80 scholars from various research backgrounds, such as innovation management, entrepreneurship, organization and workplace design, information systems, and public policy met, in order to exchange recent research findings and future research plans. The kick-off event started in the very traditional “Hotel Hafen Hamburg”. Every member of this reseach group was welcomed by Profs. Ralf Reichwald and Christoph Ihl.

This year’s conference on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship was a great success!

The Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and the Erich Pommer Institute (EPI) presented the conference Big Data, Big Movies.

The 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management took place from August 5 to 9, 2016 in Anaheim, California, USA.

Main topic - Innovation and the dynamics of change

The main topic of this conference was Opening Governance

The OUI 2015 was oragnized by the Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics. It is the leading academic conference on Open and User Innovation. Around 200 researchers from various disciplines (such as innovation management, health, strategic management, organization, design, marketing, entrepreneurship, and public policy) meet annually, in order to exchange recent research findings and plans related to Open and User Innovation. Christoph Ihl and Hannes Lampe joined this conference.

From July 28 to July 30, 2014 the 12. International Open and User Innovation Conference was held at the Harvard Business School campus in Boston, USA. Organized by Carliss Baldwin (HBS), Karim Lakhani (HBS), Stefan Thomke (HBS), Eric von Hippel (MIT) and Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)

Hamburg University of Technology founds the Institute of Entrepreneurship and is enriched by one new colleague Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Christoph Ihl

A big range of established scholars and practitioners gathered at the Copenhagen Business School. Lectures had been given to the following topics: strategic decision-making, top-management teams, entrepreneurship, strategic human resources and methodological issues.