Open laboratories like JOSEPHS have become increasingly popular over the last years. Many companies use them to support their innovation processes. This, however, does not exhaust the benefits of open labs. In our latest journal publication, wi1 member Albrecht Fritzsche applies the concept of cultural translation to open laboratories in order to give a wider account of the activities that are taking place inside them. Using a multiple case study approach, he shows that they can also ...

Im Rahmen der JuniorAkademie Bayern 2017 waren am 08. August 30 Jugendliche im JOSEPHS® zu Gast. Neben einem Rundgang durch die Themenwelt stand auch ein Workshop mit dem Thema „Social Engineering mit dem Roboter NAO“ mit Max Jalowski vom Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Innovation und Wertschöpfung auf dem Programm. Den Jugendlichen wurden Grundlagen zu den Themen IT-Sicherheit und Social Engineering vermittelt. Darauf aufbauend wurden in Kleingruppen fleißig Interaktionen ...

Award for JOSEPHS: we are very pleased that we were nominated for the Grand Prize at ISPIM the International Society for Professional Innovation Management in Vienna and that we took second place. Congratulations to Hewlett Packard Enterprise - the Living Progress Challenge who came in first. We also congratulate IBM - the THINKLab Galaxy and GE - Genius Link, the other two finalists.

The ISPIM Grand Prize is awarded to organizations that have significantly increased their ...

The digital transformation forces companies to think about value creation, value delivery and value capturing in new ways. In his keynote at the Taiwanese Seminar on Multidisciplinary Engineering Education and Research Projects, Dr. Fritzsche from Wi1 reviewed this process as a heuristic search and explained the contribution of open laboratories to its success. He showed how the concept of JOSEPHS facilitates such contributions and presented examples of its successful application in ...

How can IoT product-service systems be designed to optimize value generation for all stakehodlers? Boukhris, Fritzsche and Möslein suggest the COSUP method. Aida Boukhris of Wi1 presented the method at the 50th CIRP conference on manufacturing systems in Taichung, based on experiences collected at JOSEPHS and in numerous workshops worldwide. A core element is the newly developed Protobits kit. Check out the paper "Co-creation at the early stage of product-service systems development ...