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Graduate Research Seminar - "AI in Innovation" SS 2026

New Graduate Research Seminar at the Innovation Management Group

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Participation at the 2026 AMA Winter Academic Conference

The Innovation Management Group participated at 2026 AMA Winter Academic…

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Students from Ilmenau presented a start-up idea for teacher training

At the demo day of the "Unternehmergeist Saar" talent programme, Ilmenau…

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Research

In our research we explore the emergence and management of innovations in organizations as well as the effects of innovations on organizations and individuals.

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Teaching

The Innovation Management group offers the following courses:

 

Summer term

Bachelor:

  • Lecture+Exercise (SPL) 'Innovation Management' (in German)

Master:

  • Graduate Research Seminar (in English, final examination also possible in German)
  • Lecture (APL) 'Experiments in Innovation Studies ((in English, final examination also possible in German)

Publications

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  • Freisinger, E. & Schneider, S. (2025): „Decoding decision delegation to artificial intelligence: A mixed-methods study on the preferences of decision-makers and decision-affected in surrogate decision contexts”. European Management Journal.
  • Freisinger, E. & McCarthy, I. P. (2024): "What fails and when? A process view of innovation failure". Technovation
  • Freisinger, E., Unfried, M., Schneider, S. (2024): “The AI-Augmented Crowd: How Human Crowdvoters Adopt AI (or Not).” Journal of Product Innovation Management.
  • Heidenreich, S., Freisinger, E., Landau, C. (2022): The Dark Side of Business Model Innovation–An Empirical Investigation into the Evolvement of Customer Resistance and the Effectiveness of Potential Countermeasures. Journal of Product Innovation Management.