Research At The CDTM
Leading in Innovation Research and Knowledge Dissemination
Interdisciplinary research activities constitute an important branch of the CDTM. The interdisciplinary setting builds a fruitful foundation for a variety of research topics, as students, doctoral candidates and professors all bring in their expertise from different fields. In cooperation with various research partners, the CDTM realizes different research projects in the field of digital technology, both privately and publicly and funded.
Our Research Topic and Application Areas
CDTM engages in a number of publicly funded research projects and initiatives related to innovation, entrepreneurship, and education. These range from EU-funded educational initiatives to advance innovation in areas of high future relevance such as health care or food consumption to local initiatives that do research at the intersection of digital technology and other economic and social aspects.
Digitalization and Innovation
The focus of our research is how digitalization changes businesses in terms of innovation behavior, implementation of new technologies and its impact on society. The projects are concentrated around the TIME-sector (telecommunication, information technology, media & entertainment), while setting a focus on applied output and prototype development with an entrepreneurial touch.
Example Projects
- Innovation behavior of small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany in collaboration with the Munich Center for Internet Research
- Using artificial neural networks for image processing and computer vision in an industrial context in collaboration with the Software Campus and Trumpf
- Development of a UX measurement method based on machine learning in collaboration with the Software Campus and Holtzbrinck
- EIT Health entrepreneurship education in collaboration with various EIT partners like the Karolinska Institute, IESE Business School, and Imperial College London
- EIT Food entrepreneurship education in collaboration with Queens University Belfast and the University of Cambridge
- Entrepreneurship4All@UBT in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth
Entrepreneurship Education
In addition to our research in digital transformation, the CDTM works to disseminate entrepreneurship education to students all over the world. We aim to transfer our leading interdisciplinary innovation program to aspiring educational institutions. Through CDTM’s Train-the-Trainer Concept we can help your institution to integrate innovative teaching formats in your study programs and spark the entrepreneurial spirit among your students.
Workshops
How will digital innovation impact your business? How are players in other fields harnessing the opportunities within the intersection of digital technologies, human-centered design and Design Thinking? Our experienced researchers in the field of digital innovation offer individualized workshops to equip you with notion, tools and confidence to drive change across your business.
Research Aspects
Applied Input and Output
The practical and hands-on work performed at CDTM, allows for building protototypes or crawling data that builds the foundation for innovative research projects and helps to create practical-oriented outcome.
Interdisciplinarity
The research performed at CDTM builds on the interdisciplinary setting of the CDTM and integrates different perspectives, from economic and technical aspects to social, political, and ecological implications.
Methodological Competence
Research approaches highly build on our method know-how in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship and digital technology (e.g. design thinking, prototyping, expert interviews) and are always problem-oriented.
Interested in engaging with CDTM research?
We are always aiming to collaborate with motivated researchers and partner institutions to tackle issues in sustainability and society through the use of technology.