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This year's Spring Servitization Conference with the motto “Advanced Services for Sustainability and Growth” was postponed from May to September due to the Covid 19 pandemic and was held exclusively in digital format from September 14 to 16, 2020. 

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 October of 2019, Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer, Project Manager Data Mining and Value Creation, and Theresa Wenzel, responsible for project communication, had the opportunity to give a lecture on the future of value creation in Saxony as a part of the studium universale at the University of Leipzig. 

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.

Blockchain is a polarizing topic. While the technology is often associated with the development of the Internet of Value, so many doubts and myths surround Blockchain. The idea behind our workshop was to clarify what Blockchain actually is and what concrete application possibilities exist in companies

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.

The article "Driving Process Innovation with IoT Field Data" in the MIS Quarterly Executive is dedicated to the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) for production companies.

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.

Alexander Arzt, research fellow in the Data Mining and Value Creation project, reports on the Spring Servitization Conference 2019 and explains the poster he presented at the conference.

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.

Alexander Arzt, research fellow in the Data Mining and Value Creation project, will participate in the Spring Servitization Conference in Linköping, Sweden, from 13 to 15 May 2019. The theme of the conference is “Delivering Services Growth in the Digital Era”. 

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.

For the renowned trade magazine Industrial Marketing Management, a call for papers for the special issue on "Digital servitization: crossing the perspectives of digitization and service transformation" will run until December 21, 2018. Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer, Project Manager Data Mining and Value Creation, is the guest editor of this issue.

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.