The Digital Entrepreneurship Hub combines entrepreneurship research and education at the School of Business & Economics of Freie Universität Berlin.
The founding members are Prof. Dr. Martin Gersch, Prof. Dr. Hannes Rothe and Prof. Dr. Janina Sundermeier.
Martin Gersch ist als Wirtschaftsinformatiker und Betriebswirt insbesondere an der ökonomischen Analyse innovativer Geschäftsmodelle, neuer Technologien sowie sich verändernder Wertketten und Industriearchitekturen auch im Bereich des Gesundheitswesens interessiert („Digitale Transformation“).
Neben seiner Professur für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Information und Organisation an der Freien Universität Berlin leitet er unter anderem das Competence Center E-Commerce mit weiteren Standorten, u.a. an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, sowie das Branchen Panel “Transformation des deutschen Gesundheitswesens”. Daneben realisiert er eine Reihe von Drittmittelprojekten, u.a. “eHealth@Home” (BMBF, 2008 – 2012, FKZ 01FC08003), das DFG-Graduiertenkollege „Pfade organisatorischer Prozesse“ (2010-2013), die „Focus Area DynAge“ als Forschungskooperation zwischen der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin – und der FU Berlin (seit 2012, gefördert aus den Zukunftsmitteln der Exzellenzinitiative), die Nachwuchsforschergruppe „Health-IT and Business Modell Innovation“ (2014 – 2020), „BEA@Home“ (BMBF, 2013 – 2016, FKZ 16SV5932), die „Entrepreneurial Network University (ENU)“ (2013-2018, BMWi-EXIST), das „Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF)“ (ab 2017, Einstein Stiftung) sowie zwei eingeworbene W1-Stiftungsprofessuren zum Thema „Digitale Transformation“.
Seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit legt einen Schwerpunkt auf die theoriebasierte Analyse ökonomischer Implikationen der Digitalisierung sowie auf unternehmerisches Denken unter radikaler Unsicherheit. Mehr als 150 begutachtete Veröffentlichungen erschienen in nationalen und internationalen Fachzeitschriften und Konferenzbänden.
Neben anderen wissenschaftlichen Funktionen ist Martin Gersch Vorstandsmitglied der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Dienstleistungsmanagement im VHB sowie Editor des Journals of Competences, Strategy & Management (JCSM).
Martin Gersch is full professor at the School of Business & Economics at Freie Universität Berlin and there a founding member of the Department Information Systems and the “Digital Entrepreneurship Hub (DEH)” (entrepreneurship education & research). He served amongst others as a responsible researcher at the DFG Pfadkolleg Research Center on “Organizational Paths” at the Dahlem Research School of Freie Universität Berlin as well as at the Focus Area “DynAge” (Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation DFG). Since 2017 he is Principal Investigator („Digital Transformation“) at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). Martin Gersch has been working in the fields of technology-driven change and transformation processes (“digital transformation”), e-health, entrepreneurship, service engineering, business model analysis, management and economic theory, innovative teaching and learning concepts (e-/blended learning arrangements). He published more than 150 papers and serves as a reviewer for, amongst others, the DFG, WI/BISE, OSS, ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, EGOS, SMS, AoM, MF.
Hannes Rothe is Professor at the Chair of Information Systems and Sustainable Supply Chain Management at University of Duisburg Essen and head of the Co-Creation Lab Digital.
Before, he has held positions as associate professor for Information Systems and Digital Transformation at ICN Business School (Nancy, Paris, Berlin) and as Assistant Professor position at the Digital Entrepreneurship Hub, Freie Universität Berlin, where he also earned his doctoral degree in 2015 and was responsible for coordinating entrepreneurship education since 2013. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge (UK) and TU Graz (Austria). Hannes’ research interests lies on organizing data and knowledge, digital ecosystems and infrastructures, digital innovation and digital entrepreneurship. His work has been published in journals such as Information Systems Research, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Business & Information Systems Engineering, and was presented at leading information systems conferences. He was runner-up and winner of multiple paper awards, including the Claudio Ciborra Award for the most innovative paper in 2019.
Janina Sundermeier is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Systems of the Freie Universität Berlin. Since Summer 2013, she is actively supporting university students from all disciplines in making their ideas happen. For this purpose, she trains their entrepreneurial mindset and supports them with useful tools during the ideation and venture creation stages. All of her classes, workshops and seminars benefit from her research foci on entrepreneurial cognition, as well as, female and social entrepreneurship.
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