The ENI Research Seminar

18.12.2025
ENI Doctoral Consortium — Winter Edition

08.12.2025
Writing Workshop (ENI University of Stuttgart & Nord University): Coherence and Consistency in Academic Writing

01.12.2025
Brigitte Schönberger
Creative Potential at the Margins

24.11.2025
Pascal Henninger (University of Stuttgart)
Design Science Approach for R&D Decision Making

17.11.2025
Sophia Hess (University of Stuttgart)
A Process Perspective on Early Venture Milestones — Heterogeneity, Persistence, and Ecosystem Access in Entrepreneurial Timing

10.11.2025
Michelle Muhr (University of Stuttgart)
Agility in Organizations — A Literature Review

27.10.2025
Mia-Celine Zsohar (University of Stuttgart)
Expediting Quantum Leaps — Leveraging Ambiguity in the Commercialization of Emerging Technologies

20.10.2025
ENI Research Program Development: Building and Sharing Research Canvas

09.10.2025
Tim Schweisfurth (TU Hamburg)
Inductive, Deductive, and Abductive Theorizing

06.10.2025
Ferran Giones (University of Stuttgart)
ENI Research Strategy — Recap and Plans for Winter Semester 2025–26

29.09.2025
Manuel Hillenmeyer (University of Stuttgart)
From Lab to Market — The Use of Large Language Models for Systematic Market Entry Strategizing: The Case of a Technology Startup

09.09.2025
Workshop (ENI University of Stuttgart & SIF Nord University)
Joint Collaborative Writing Workshop

08.09.2025
Leon Alexander Rasztar (Fraunhofer IAO)
Different Perspectives on Foresight — A Multi-Method Approach

11.08.2025
Kevin Haas (Fraunhofer IBP)
Digital Technologies Commercialization

14.07.2025
Closing First Half of the Year

10.07.2025
ENI Doctoral Consortium — Summer 2025

30.06.2025
Finn Tryggvason (University of Stuttgart)
PhD Progress — Text-as-Data Methods Overview

23.06.2025
Sophia Hess  (University of Stuttgart)
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems — Thesis Mock Presentation

16.06.2025
Ferran Giones (University of Stuttgart)
Why We Don’t Read, or Do We

09.06.2025
Paul Knott (University of Canterbury)
S‑Curves and Organizational Stagnation

02.06.2025
Simon Ford (SFU) & Brigitte Schönberger
Digital Doors to Inclusion: Analyzing DEI Openness of North American Makerspaces Through Online Presence

19.05.2026
Christian Kehn & Alen Karagic (University of Stuttgart)
Research Project Presentations

12.05.2025
Dimitri Petrik (University of Stuttgart)
Digital Technologies and Circular Economy

05.05.2026
Ferran Giones (University of Stuttgart)
Review of ENI Research Portfolio, Advances and Challenges in the Research Lines and Lighthouses

28.04.2025
Martin Schwarz (Ulm / University of Stuttgart)
Entrepreneurs’ Meaningful Work: Towards Unpuzzling Its Personalization and a Dynamic Understanding

22.04.2025
Ferney Osorio (University of Lorraine, ERPI)
Innovation Labs: Present and Future Research

31.03.2025
Matthias Staessens (Montpellier Business School)
Navigating Profit and Purpose in Social Enterprises: How WISEs Respond to Performance Shortfalls

20.03.2025
Paul Wiegmann (TU Eindhoven – TU/e)
Standards

17.03.2025
Matthias Tröbinger (ESSEC/Esade)
How Experience Moderates the Impact of GenAI Ideas on the Research Process

10.03.2025
Workshop (ENI US / ERPI LU / SIF Nord U)
Workshop (ENI, ERPI Lorraine University, SIF Nord University): Using AI in the Research Process

25.02.2025
Brigitte Schönberger
Redefining Innovation: Unlocking the Power of Women in STEM

18.02.2025
Simon Ford (SFU) & Brigitte Schönberger
Digital Doors to Inclusion: Analyzing DEI Openness of North American Makerspaces Through Online Presence

03.02.2025
Johannes Engels & Manuel Hillenmeyer
Updates on PhD Project and Bachelor Thesis Examination: Social Entrepreneurship

27.01.2025
Christina Kyprianou (IE) & Sidharth Vedula (TUM)
Shifts in National Entrepreneurial Culture: The Promise of Linguistic Cultural Artifacts and Machine Learning Analysis

13.01.2025
Recap: Plans for First Half 2025 and ENI Objectives

16.12.2024
Irinia Isaeva
Innovation Intermediaries in University‑Industry Collaboration with / Marianne Steinmo, Einar Rasmussen, Markus Perkmann

12.12.2024
ENI Doctoral Consortium Winter – Presentations of the ENI PhD students

02.12.2024
Finn Trygvasson
Playing by their own rules – How Nintendo thrived by defying conventional logic in the video‑game industry

25.11.2024
Sophia Hess
Measuring Entrepreneurial Strategy – DEEM

18.11.2024
Brigitte Schönberger
Visualizing Data in tables and graphs – considerations and recommendations

11.11.2024
Kuno Kurzhals / Maurice Koch (visus – Uni Stuttgart)
New methods: a novel setup for the recording of workshops

04.11.2024
Ferran Giones
Reviewing and R&R tips – Workshop: discussing practices on how to review (CIM Template + editor insights) and respond to reviewers (approaches)

28.10.2024
Christian Mahringer (Uni Stuttgart)
Autonomous, yet interdependent: designing interfaces across routine clusters

14.10.2024
Johannes Engels
Impact Project

07.10.2024
Master thesis presentations

30.09.2024
Judy Rady
(Virginia Tech, US) AI – Imaginativeness

23.09.2024
Petra Nylund
Overview of research projects combining AI and Innovation research

16.09.2024
ENI Research Strategy – Updates and plans for 24/25

11.09.2024
Ioana Stefan
(MDU, Sweden) Innovation, standards, and dominant designs

02.09.2024
Mia‑Celine Zsohár
What we talk about when we talk about Science Commercialization: A framing perspective to explain attention shifts in universities’ communication (T2S)

22.07.2024
Jonas und Tiantian
Doctoral Consortium additional session (internal ENI session)

15.07.2024
Master Theses presentations

11/07/2024
Doctoral Consortium ENI - Summer
DC presentations - PhD projects at ENI

08/07/2024
Raphael Heiberger
University of Stuttgart
How (scientific) knowledge is used in patents, and what (social) conditions hinder/further success in patents

01/07/2024
Available

24/06/2024
Sophia Hess
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Exploring Urban vs. Rural Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (w/ Bernd Würth - Univ. of Glasgow)

17/06/2024
(R&D Management Conf)

10/06/2024
Theresa Wöllner & Dominik Hörauf
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Motivating Innovation: Harnessing Self-Determination Theory for Effective Idea Management System Implementation

03/06/2024
Brigitte Schönberger
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Unboxing DEI in research and at ENI - first steps

27/05/2024
Verena Meyer (Leuphana University - TBC)
Leuphana University
Entrep Ecosystems & Transformative Entrepreneurship (TBC)

06/05/2024
Ferran Giones
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Controversial Practices or Failed Innovations, learning from the sports industry

29/04/2024
Pascal Henninger
ENI, University of Stuttgart
R&D Decision-making processes - Design Science research project

22/04/2024
Inma Aleixos-Borrás
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Niklas Krem (Studienarbeit - coordinated by Andreas Wahl)
Academic entrepreneurial behavior explained by the dynamic view of job satisfaction (André Büssing, 1992). An empirical study in Germany. Work in progress with Isabel Rodríguez (Universitat de València)
Determination of the core elements of a successful beverage distribution to non-host cities

15/04/2024
Johannes Engels
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Exploring and measuring the multidimensionality of Impact - the case of new ventures' impact

08/04/2024
Jonas Fröhlich
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Advances in the study of constrained-based innovation

25/03/2024
Coordinated by Jonas Fröhlich
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Bachelor and Master Thesis at ENI - presentations

18/03/2024
Inma Aleixos-Borrás
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Startup coaches as precursors to entrepreneurial behavior in doctoral candidates and postdocs. An empirical study in Germany. Work in progress with Chris Hayter (Georgia Tech)

05/03/2024
Prof. Theresa Veer
University of Tübingen 
Microfoundations gender bias decision-making

27/02/2024
Prof. Jella Pfeiffer
University of Stuttgart 
Overview of research areas and projects - Chatbots, AI, and other Emerging Technologies - WI perspective

21/02/2024
Julianne Möllmann
Aarhus University
Knowledge Exchanges in Corporate-Startup Collaborations

20/02/2024
Dr. Egbert Amoncio
Goethe University Frankfurt
Computer Vision in Product Design - Using AI for Patent Analysis

12/02/2024
Marcel Werle
ENI, University of Stuttgart
Update on PhD project work (doctoral consortium session)

05/02/2024
Finn Tryggvason
ENI, University of Stuttgart
The Conundrum of Dual Conformity

29/01/2024
Nicola Felicini
University of Cambridge
VR for scenario-based decision-making

22/01/2024
Rodrigo da Luz Barcellos
UFRGS, Brazil
Business Model Innovation

15/01/2024
Ferran Giones
ENI, University of Stuttgart
New wishes for the new year - overview of research portfolio and challenges

07/12/2023
ENI Doctoral Consortium
Presentations of the PhD students at ENI - Uni Stuttgart

27/11/2023
Dominik Hörauf
Bachelor and Masterarbeit presentations

20/11/2023
Christina Häefliger
LUT, Finland
Value Propositions in Hackathons

16/11/2023
Jana Thiel
ETH Zurich
Commitment Experimentation

06/11/2023
Martin Schwarz & Alexandra Jussli
ENI / Ulm / BW Munich
Tracing the Roots of Meaningful Work of Entrepreneurs: An In-depth Longitudinal Study

30/10/2023
Steffen Paust + (Studienarbeit presentation)
The role of prototyping in idea work

23/10/2023
Ferran Giones
ENI Research Strategy - Review and updates

16/10/2023
Inma Aleixos Borràs
Target Objects as Complementary Explanations of Science Commercialization

10/10/2023
Inma Aleixos Borràs
Workshop: Open Data, FAIR data & Data Management Plans (in collaboration w/ Einst4ine)

06/10/2023
Paavo Ritala
LUT, Finland
Research presentation on innovation and data - discussion on collaboration opportunities w/ LUT - Einst4ine

25/09/2023
ENI Team
Session on Conferences - plan 2023-24

18/09/2023
Nina Bachmann
Fraunhofer IAO
Knowledge and Technology Transfer Research

11/09/2023
Theresa Wöllner
The Soft Side of Implementing an Idea Management System

24/07/2023
Sophia Hess
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem measurement and insights

18/07/2023
Inma Aleixos Borràs
Workshop: Bad & Good Codes (for Interpretative Analysis)

10/07/2023
Dr. Brigitte Schönberger
Diversity in the Context of Makerspaces - a research agenda

03/07/2023
Heiko von der Gracht
Steinbeis / KPMG
Delphi Method: State-of-the-Art and application areas

26/06/2023
Christian Walsh
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
Entrepreneurship and Creativity

15/06/2023
ENI Doctoral Consortium

05/06/2023
Brigitte Schönberger
Diversity in the Context of Makerspaces - a research agenda (cancelled)

22/05/2023
Martin Schwarz
Why Start-up? The Influence of Founders’ Social Identity and Meaningful Work on the Performance of New Venture Teams16/05/2023
Cornelia Martina Sindermann
IRIS - US
Bringing technology and psychology together

08/05/2023
Andreas Wahl
Decoding the Entrepreneurial Experimentation puzzle: antecedents and operationalization

24/04/2023
Ferran Giones
Contrasting the scientists' preferences for research impact

18/04/2023
Inma Aleixos Borràs
Workshop - Leveraging the power of Mendeley and Zotero for your research

11/04/2023
Henri Hakala
LUT, Finland
To buy green, or not to buy green: elements of entrepreneurial sustainability decisions

27/03/2023
Internal ENI workshop
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Sharing knowledge on research capabilities development.

20/03/2023
Daniele Battaglia
ESCP - Turin, Italy
Entrepreneurial Experimentation

13/03/2023
Parul Chaudhary
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
The evolution of an innovation intermediary, an emergence perspective.

06/03/2023
Won Kyung Min
Fordham Uni, USA
Innovation Shocks in  the Incubation Phase of an Industry.

01/03/2023
Mauricio Camargo & Ferney Osorio
ERPI-Lorraine University, France
Creativity and AI - Ideation and innovation management in labs and spaces.

21/02/2023
Jens Schmidt
Aalto University, Finland
Theory-based learning and experimentation.

13/02/2023
Petra Nylund
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
AI and Open Innovation - Recent work in book chapter and CMR paper.

06/02/2023
Mukund Chari
University of Colorado
Endogeneity challenges in management research - how to deal with them.

30/01/2023
Tiantian Li
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Entrepreneurship in makerspaces.

23/01/2023
Finn Jonas Tryggvason
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Responses to innovation shocks, firm, and ecosystem level reactions to the EV disruption.

16/01/2023
Martin Schwarz
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Meaningful Work in Entrepreneurship.

09/01/2023
Christina Ungerer & Ferran Giones
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
ENI research strategy for 2023.

13/12/2022
Solia Lemmetty  
University of Eastern Finland - www.uef.fi
Employee-driven learning and innovation: relationship, research gaps and starting points // DTE ARENA2036 Event                                                                               

08/12/2022
ENI Doctoral Consortium 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science

28/11/2022
Theresa Wöllner
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Studies on idea management systems

21/11/2022
Jessica Fishburn
LUT, Finnland
The role of Orchestration in Innovation Ecosystems - ARENA2036  // Einst4ine event // DTE ARENA2036 Event                                                                                 

14/11/2022
Alan Johnson
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Building a longitudinal dataset from cross-sectional observations and first steps on the analysis // Entrepreneurship Research Academy BW Event                                

07/11/2022
Pascal Henninger & Marcel Werle                                                                      Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
- Entrepreneurial Decision Making in Established Organizations (RENT paper) DTE ARENA2036 Event                                                                                                     - Development of AI Startups (RENT Paper) DTE ARENA2036 Event                                                      

31/10/2022
Bernd Wurth
Strathclyde University, Scotland
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems - Research Agenda and Simulation // Entrepreneurship Research Academy BW Event

24/10/2022
Sophia Hess & Stephan Nebauer
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science& Frauenhofer IPA
Methods for Entrep Ecosystem and building a dataset challenges.

18-20/10/2022
Inma Alexeixos Borras & Jose Lopez
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science& University of Ottawa,      Canada
On Theorizing - 3 half-days workshop 

17/10/2022
Parul Chaudhary & Finn Jonas Tryggvason 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Empirical cases on innovation ecosystems/ Einst4ine and DTE Tech Bereich Event 

10/10/2022
Martin Schwarz & Dominik Hörauf
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
- Founders Meaningful Work
- AI & Creativity DTE Tech Bereich ARENA2036

26/09/2022
Denis Bettenmann 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Consortium Acceleration and Knowledge Exchanges

22/09/2022
Inma Aleixos Borras 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Workshop on Information Search - how to use the advanced search WoS and Scopus in the most efficient way in order to improve your literature search.

19/09/2022
Laura Rehberg 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Working paper presentation: SLR on Prototyping

13/09/2022
Inma Aleixos Borras 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Workshop on "Why do we do Literature Reviews"

12/09/2022
Inma Aleixos Borras 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Research plan - Ungendered Values MSCA-IF Post-doc at ENI Uni Stuttgart - DTE Tech Bereich ARENA2036

05/09/2022
Review of research & strategy at ENI
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Goals, ongoing projects, objectives for last quarter of 22

25/07/2022
Kerem Gurses
La Salle Ramon Llull University
Framing Digital Technologies & Regulation Cyber Valley / DTE ARENA2036 event

20/07/2022
Nivedita Agarwal
Universität Stuttgart / Siemens Healthineers
Frugal Engineering / Frugal Innovation DTE / ARENA2036 TechBereiche session

11/07/2022
Denis Bettenmann & Juliane Möllmann 
Universität Stuttgart & Aaarhus Universitet
Corporate Startup Collaboration 

20/06/2022
Tim Schweisfurth
University Twente
The evolution of idea evaluation research, next steps and techniques DTE ARENA2036 TechBereiche session

13/06/2022
Pascal Henninger 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Presentation of work plan on Corporate Effectuation and PhD Project

30/05/2022
Laura Rehberg
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
User-centered Prototypes (ICE-IAMOT conf work)

23/05/2022
ZhenZhen Zhao 
SKEMA Business School, France
Digital Innovation research trajectory and ongoing projects DTE / ARENA2036 TechBereiche session

16/05/2022
Laura Prislan
Uni Stuttgart/ Bosch
How to foster a more sustainable behavior with consumer technology

02/05/2022
Alan R. Johnson 
EM Lyon, France
Doing research with panel datasets, sharing experiences and lessons learned

11/04/2022
Hannah Kosow                                                                                                  Universität Stuttgart                                                                                                    Method presentation: Cross-Impact Balance (CIB) analysis (https://www.zirius.unistuttgart.de/en/cib-lab/)

04/04/2022
Vaibhav Gururaj 
Master Thesis presentation: Platform Convergence and Regulations.

28/03/2022
Christina Kühnl
University Stuttgart
Digital Marketing research overview

21/03/2022
Sophia Hess 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Efficiency-based approach on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

14/03/2022
Parul Chaudhary 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Review on ecosystems literature and emergence (DTE ARENA2036 & EINST4INE open event)

07/03/2022
Workshop Session
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Tips and tricks to write and organize your research portfolio  - Roundtable and discussion.

28/02/2022
Denis Bettenmann 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Scouting and selection in Corporate Accelerators (DTE / ARENA2036 TechBereiche session) 

21/02/2022
Marine Agogue
HEC Montreal, Canada                                                                                    Nudging Creativity - Fictional Work for Management Theory

14/02/2022
Hareem Arshaad
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Research project presentation on AI and RRI

07/02/2022
Mauricio Camargo & Ferney Osorio
Lorraine University, France
Innovation Labs, governance, measures, and strategic goals (DTE / ARENA2036 TechBereiche session)

31/01/2022
Christina Ungerer 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
New Technology Firm Survival

24/01/2022
Christian Mahringer
Uni Stuttgart                                                                                                            Innovation in Scrum Teams (DTE / ARENA2036 TechBereiche session),

17/01/2022
Philipp Häßler 
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Quantum Technology and Innovation Direction Paper 

10/01/2022
Alexander Brem & Ferran Giones
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation science
Plans and objectives - Research Goals - 2022