What is the potential of new technologies? How can an established firm become as innovative as start-ups? Is Blockchain for Climate Action a radical innovation? What is a product backlog in agile projects? Do you find these questions interesting? Then learn with us – engage in our TIM courses and make an impact with an interesting thesis project.

We are interested in technology and innovation management. We seek to address relevant problems and opportunities. Our research is theory-driven and always seeks empirical validation. Organizational structures or processes as well as human behavior in innovation processes are of central interest to us. New technologies often enter as research subjects or support our innovative research methods. We collaborate with international research teams and promote research talents.

TIM research and teaching collaborates closely with innovative firms. Many of our research projects draw on data gathered in and with industrial partners. Research results are actively conveyed in industry meetings and workshops and we are always open to discussing new ideas for collaboration. In particular in teaching, we offer different opportunities for bringing students and firms together in innovative learning formats.

This Summer Semester 2024, the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Research Group invites Master students to a unique research opportunity. The focus of our seminar is the exploration of the impacts of the brand-new specialized healthcare lighting technology newly installed in the TU Berlin lab. This unique opportunity allows Master students to gain firsthand experience in a cutting-edge field of Health Tech.

Seminar Highlights:
• Healthcare Technology: Immerse yourself in studying the effects of dynamic light therapy device administering a light scheduling algorithm on human behavior and stress.
• Collaborative Research: Benefit from our research partnership with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and collaboration with our industry partners Zumtobel Group and GRAFT Architects.
• From Theory to Practice: Engage in the preparation of a conceptual theory model and methodology. Then, follow this with active experimentation at TU Berlin’s behavioral lab.


Credits: 6 ECTS

Module-specific introductions:

Managing Innovative Projects: 18.04., 2 PM, online
Organisation und Innovationsmanagement: 16.04. 2PM, Room H 0104
TIM Forschungs- und Abschlussarbeitsseminar: 17.04. 12 PM, Room H 7112
Joint Research Seminar - Innovation Management: 17.04. 2 PM, Room H 7112
Technology Management: 19.04. 10 AM, Room H 3006
Zukunftswerkstatt: 17.04., 2 PM; Room H3004

The TIM Chair presented the offered courses for the summer semester in an online session on 15.04.24. You can find the recording of the session under the link.

Over the past year, we have both physically and in our joint activities moved much closer to our fellow TIMES research teams at TU Berlin: Strategic Leadership & Sustainability Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management. This brings together a large portfolio of research projects, that cover topics from ‘enclothed cognition’ to ‘feedback as an impulse for creativity’, from ‘entrepreneurial engagement in the circular economy’ to ‘resilience in start-up teams’, just to mention an few. Interested in learning more about our fantastic projects? Go and play our Memory Game!

At the TIM research group we are working on a new teaching and learning concept for module "Fundamentals of Project Management". Students will learn to address specific project management challenges in a simulated project environment. Learning is facilitated through serious game elements, which also will include a new procedure for forming student groups. In an advanced version of the project management game, students will play in an online-format too. If you have questions to the project, please contact our project manager, Helena Wittrich.