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In a chapter for the book Perspektiven des Dienstleistungsmanagements (Perspectives of Service Management), Prof. Dr. Thorsten Posselt, director of the Fraunhofer IMW, as well as Dr. Sebastian Haugk and Dr. Riad Bourayou, research fellows in the project Data Mining and Value Creation, assess Europe as a player in the global platform economy. 

In a case study in the Harvard Business Manager of January 2020, author Heiko Gebauer, project manager of the project Data Mining and Value Creation, addresses the challenges of digital transformation for companies.

On November 12 and 13, 2019, the Fraport Forum at Frankfurt Airport and the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) held the 18th INNOVATION Forum of the Platform for Innovation in Germany (PFI-D). Over two days, around 300 cross-industry specialists and managers from business and science discussed future topics such as digitization, collaboration and cross-innovation.

On September 27, 2019, part of the project team Data Mining and Value Creation visited seecon Ingenieure at their offices in the Baumwollspinnerei.

At the event “Digital Platforms - Effects and Benefits for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises” on September 18, 2019, the eStandards 4.0 Competence Center at the Fraunhofer IMW answered questions about the trend of platform economics.

In the workshop: “From connectivity to (digital) revenue” of the Data Mining and Value Creation project, the participants discuss how connectivity and the resulting data can be turned into revenue.

At this year's NET19, the industry meeting place for digitization topics by seecon engineers, the employees of the research project Data Mining and Value Creation will have their own lecture block.

How can already generated field data help to become more competitive and exploit growth potential? The Impulse Paper “Growth Paths in the Digitization of Business Models in Industrial Enterprises”, published by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), reflects the current discussion of the Platform Industry 4.0.

Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer, Project Manager Data Mining and Value Creation, is co-author of three new articles on digitization and value creation from data in the trade magazines Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, and Business Horizons.

The Hannover Messe was the destination of Dr. Sebastian Haugk and Alexander Arzt on April 2, 2019. The two research fellows in the Data Mining and Value Creation project at Fraunhofer IMW were particularly interested in topics related to the Internet of Things (IoT).

In the Data Mining and Value Creation project, we are working with the City of Leipzig to further develop its approach to Open Data. Since it is often unclear what can be done with data at all, a workshop was held with the city's employees on March 14, 2019 at the Fraunhofer IMW premises. Sonja Ries, research fellow in the Data Mining and Value Creation project, answers some questions about the workshop.

The project Data Mining and Value Creation was part of the Research Day program at the Fraunhofer IMW on January 24, 2019. Project manager Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer gave a short overview of the project. Milan Pentrack and Bastien Bodenstein, research fellows in the project, then presented their main areas of work.

Dr. Heiko Gebauer, project manager of the digital project unit "Data Mining and Value Creation" at Fraunhofer IMW, presented the joint project with the University of Leipzig in the working group Knowledge and Technology Transfer at the premises of the Leipzig Chamber of Industry and Commerce.