Research & Transfer
Research & Transfer
The research work of the adjunct professorship in Innovation Management & Sustainability focuses on theoretical questions of evolutionary economics and interaction economics, as well as empirical and application-related aspects of innovation management, the generation of sustainability innovations and "green" future markets, and environmentally oriented entrepreneurship (eco-entrepreneurship).
Resilience skills
The energy transition is making the energy system more efficient, but also more complex and more vulnerable to crises – whilst it remains unclear what skills specialists and managers need to cope with these challenges. The project analyses these skills requirements and develops a further education roadmap to ensure that tailored further education programmes are created and the resilience of the energy system is strengthened.
Impact Panel
There is a lack of reliable data on the impact of start-ups, which makes it difficult to ensure the targeted and successful development of green start-ups. By holding this panel on a regular basis, existing monitoring approaches can be expanded, funding programme-specific evaluations can be carried out, and information gaps for all stakeholders can be closed.
TEN.efzn
TEN.efzn is a Lower Saxony research programme that develops innovative solutions for the energy system of the future. Its aim is to accelerate the energy transition, effectively transfer research into politics, business and society, train skilled workers, promote innovation and start-ups, and strengthen the global visibility of energy research.
Transformation of the Energy System in Lower Saxony (TEN.efzn)
Completed projects
Wi-Ko-nova
The Wi-Ko-nova project, funded by DATIpilot and BMFTR, laid the foundations for making the effectiveness of co-innovation projects measurable and transparent, promoted the transfer of sustainable innovation approaches between universities and industry partners, and established project and impact management systems for universities in modules employing the innovative teaching and learning approach of Challenge-Based Learning. The technical implementation was carried out by the project partner TolaData.
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Discourse on the Future
This project, funded by the State of Lower Saxony (a so-called ‘Discourse on the Future’ at the University of Oldenburg), explores how a new culture of innovation can be created to tackle major societal challenges such as climate change and energy supply.
The core idea is that innovation should no longer come solely from companies or individual inventors in the traditional sense. Instead, civil society actors – and students in particular – should be involved as active catalysts. Through various dialogue formats (workshops, online discussions, seminars) involving representatives from business, academia, politics and civil society, the project explored how students and businesses can jointly develop sustainability-oriented solutions (co-innovation). The insights gained from this exchange were subsequently incorporated into a policy paper for practical application.
Challenge4Impact
This European project (funded by Erasmus+) builds directly on the experience gained from Scaleup4Sustainability and focuses on ‘challenge-based learning’. Working in virtual and international teams, students collaborate on an equal footing with businesses to develop concrete, practical solutions to real-world sustainability challenges (such as climate change or circular business models). The main aim is to expand and scale up these collaborative formats through digitalisation and internationalisation. The aim is to create a European network for sustainable start-up education that equips students with valuable intercultural skills even without a semester abroad, whilst at the same time making measurable contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
ScaleUp4Sustainability
This European project promotes practical collaboration between students and businesses in the field of ‘green venturing’ (sustainable entrepreneurship). The aim is to better integrate environmental and economic thinking into business education and practice. To this end, universities and partner companies from Germany (including the University of Oldenburg), Sweden and the Netherlands are jointly developing new teaching modules. In these practice-oriented formats, teams of students work directly on real-world challenges faced by start-ups and established companies, with the aim of jointly developing innovative, environmentally friendly business models and successfully implementing them in practice.
External links to the projects
Challenge4Impact (completed)
ScaleUp4Sustainability (completed)
Climate WA? (completed)
TEMPRO (completed)
Network Innovation & Start-ups in Climate Change (NIK) (completed)
HanseKlima (completed)
EkaKorn (completed)