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25 September 2024 | Münster

The EARTH (Ethical and Responsible Transportation and Handling) project partners gathered on the 24th and 25th of September 2024 for the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting. Hosted by Ege University, in Izmir (Turkey), the two-days meeting focused on collaborative discussions, knowledge sharing, and future planning to advance the project's objectives.

16 September 2024 | Münster

The S2BMRC is proud to announce the publication of the Good Practices Collection from the CiE Gateway project, a comprehensive resource featuring over 32 innovative cases of educational collaboration. This collection is designed to inspire academics across Europe and beyond to engage in collaborative activities within and outside their institutions, fostering improvements in careers, educational quality, and the future workforce.

02 September 2024 | Münster

The S2BMRC is proud to announce the publication of two crucial reports from the NatAlli project's work package "Strategic Foresight". The research phase, led by the team members Nelli Scharapow and Deborah Hune, involved collaborative efforts from all six NatAlli project partners in conducting 64 interviews with Ukrainian women, mentors, and external stakeholders.

01 September 2024 | Münster

The S2B is excited to announce the release of the first DIGIFABS E-zine, marking a significant milestone in the journey to revolutionize the food and drink industry through digital innovation. This bi-annual digital bulletin is designed to keep the stakeholders, partners, and the wider community informed about the progress and impact of the DIGIFABS project.

23 August 2024 | Münster

Last semester, a semester project called Change Lab 3.0 was developed as part of the Change Lab project funded by FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and carried out under the direction of Judith Helmer, research associate at the S2BMRC. Change Lab began as an initiative to investigate the impact of research on social and environmental change. By working with communities, opening up science and creating community projects, goes beyond the traditional boundaries of universities to bring about effective change in society. 

31 July 2024 | Münster

With the last Transnational Project Meetings, Jourfixes and the Project Report done, the CoCreAid project comes to an end this July.

17 July 2024 | Münster

The workshop provided a comprehensive platform for experts and project managers from diverse fields to connect, share experiences, and exchange ideas. The participants delved into practical insights on how to effectively apply digital tools and methods to their project challenges.

26 June 2024 | Lucera

The CoCreAid project reaches its final stage with all project partners meeting in Italy for the fifth transnational project meeting to successfully close the collaboration.  In cooperation with representatives from the NGO Meridaunia, Katrin Uude and Carolin Schäfer led the meeting and represented the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC). The goal of CoCreAid is to create a digital platform (CoCreAid Toolbox) with various methods to enhance digital collaboration.

20 June 2024 | Cape Breton Island of Nova Scotia

S2BMRC team Elina Isakova visited the  Gender, Work & Organization Conference (GWO) which was hosted for the first time on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada by Cape Breton University's Shannon School of Business. The conference theme was "Imagining Decolonizing Knowledge Exchanges: Embracing the JEDDII Way (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Decolonization, Inclusion & Indigenization)".

19 June 2024 | Stockholm

Dominik Lappenküper, a key member of our research team, recently presented in the prestigious R&D Management 2024 Conference hosted by the renowned KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The conference, held from June 17th to 19th, brought together leading experts, academics, and industry professionals to explore the intersection of research, innovation, and technology.

17 June 2024 | Münster

We are delighted to share the successful completion of a semester project this summer semester. Together with Prof. Nils Ommen and his valuable expertise, our team member Nelli Scharapow supervised a semester project in collaboration with Dermasence.

17 June 2024 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre is proud to announce that two of its research associates and PhD candidates have co-authored a chapter in the book "From Purpose to Impact: The University and Business Partnership." The chapter was written in collaboration with renowned scholars Jodie Conduit, Carolin Plewa, and Natalie Forde.

16 June 2024 | Madrid

Carina Hafertepe, a graduate in International Marketing & Sales from FH Münster and former research assistant at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC), presented her master's thesis at the University-Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) Conference in Madrid from May 27th to 29th.

13 June 2024 | Münster

In the last couple of months, students from the FH Münster embarked on an exciting project with the CiE Gateway initiative, the Erasmus+ project Cooperation in Education Knowledge Gateway. This initiative aims to support universities in better preparing their students for the dynamic and challenging world of work by equipping academic staff with tools and resources to design and implement educational practices through multidisciplinary and external collaboration.

12 June 2024 | Bordeaux

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre is proud to announce the participation of two of its PhD candidates, Judith Helmer and Katrin Uude, at the 13th SERVSIG Conference held in Bordeaux from June 5th to 8th, 2024. Hosted by KEDGE Business School, the event, themed "Service for Humanity," brought together service researchers from around the globe.

12 June 2024 | Münster

Pia Töns, Elina Isakova, and Nelli Scharapow, members of the S2BMRC, recently attended the MSB Connect Event at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences. The event began with a warm welcome from Dean Manuel Rupprecht, followed by insightful presentations from the newly appointed professors.

10 June 2024 | Amsterdam

Our team member Nelli Scharapow went to her PhD cooperation university VU Amsterdam for a research group event. The event featured an array of presentations shedding light on crucial aspects of technology development and its intersection with societal and environmental well-being.

09 June 2024 |  Copenhagen

S2BMRC team members Dr. Iulia Stroila and Elina Isakova visited workshop "Inclusive or Exclusive? Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research" held at Technical University of Denmark, with 63 participants from 44 universities/organizations and 18 countries.

06 June 2024 | Berlin

The "AfM Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Marketing" is the association of professors of marketing at German Universities of Applied Sciences. The 2024 AfM Conference took place at the "HTW Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft" Berlin 6.-8. June.

28 May 2024 | Münster

In a significant step towards promoting a sustainable and regenerative future, the aim of the ERASMUS+ Project REGEN-U is to clarify the role that higher education institutions can play in helping society transition to a regenerative green economy, while equipping change-makers with the necessary skills and fostering globally minded, locally impactful regenerative business solutions.

22-23 May 2024 | Lisbon

Elina Isakova, one of our academic researcher at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, went to Lisbon (Portugal) to meet face-to-face with the consortium of the RestART project, where she is the project manager.

20 May 2024 | Galway

Annika Wesbuer met with the European project collaborators of B-chain in Galway. This strategic meeting included presentations of initial educational modules developed by the project team, aimed at facilitating the adoption of blockchain within agricultural practices.

23 April 2024 | Münster

Increasing the representation and visibility of women in entrepreneurship, the start-up scene, leadership and innovation - that was the aim of the second Women's Empowerment Convention. Together with the TAFH and the REACH - EUREGIO Start-up Center, we organised the successful event, where 250 participants took part and used the opportunity to exchange ideas and network.

19 April 2024 | Amsterdam

The ENHANCER learning, teaching, and training activities (LTTA) and Transnational Project Meeting (TPM) were hosted by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Questomatica in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from the 17th to the 19th of April, 2024.

22 April 2024 | Münster

The Project Blockchain for agri-food education is funded by Erasmus+ and explores opportunities and limitations of current blockchain teaching in agri-food disciplines in our European HE system.

The second work package with three outputs in the form of white papers for the Erasmus+ project Blockchain for Agrifood Education has now been completed under the leadership of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre.

12 April 2024 | Dresden

The SUNRISE LAB was represented at the Living Lab Conference 2024 in Dresden on April 11 and 12, 2024 - an event full of inspiration, networking, and innovative ideas. Under the motto "Reallabore - ExperimentierRäume für den Weg in eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft / Living Labs - Experimental Spaces for the Path towards a Sustainable Society," experts and practitioners gathered to discuss the transformative power of Living Labs.

09 April 2024 | Münster

The German eWBL Capacity Building Program was successfully delivered in a hybrid format in Münster, Germany from March 19th to April 9th.

This training program was meticulously crafted based on an extensive needs analysis survey conducted at the outset of the eWBL project across five countries: Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, Slovenia, and Italy.

09 April 2024 | Münster

The CoCreAid project continues to make steady progress, as shown by the fourth transnational project meeting where the consortium partners gathered once again. Representing the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC), Katrin Uude and Carina Hafertepe led the meeting in cooperation with representatives from EGE University. The meeting was held from April 4th to April 5th in Izmir, Turkey.

03 April 2024 | Münster

The 3rd AQCA (QCA Conference of the Americas), hosted by Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois from March 20th to 22nd, 2024, served as a pivotal gathering for researchers and practitioners employing configurational-comparative methods and approaches.

8 March 2024 | Münster

We are excited to officially launch the website for the Erasmus+ project "NatAlli - Fostering the Renascence of Societies through Lifelong Learning Mentoring Programmes and Allies".

8 March 2024 | Münster

On February 19th, 2024, the DigiFABS (Digital Change Agents for Food and Beverage SMEs) project was inaugurated during a two-day event held in Münster, Germany. This initiative, funded by the European Commission under the Call "Alliances for Innovation", is spearheaded by Dominik Lappenküper and Judith Helmer from the S2BMRC team at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

8 March 2024 | Münster

To mark International Women's Day on March 8, S2BMRC team member Nelli Scharapow spoke to moderator Amelie Fröhlich on WDR Lokalzeit Münsterland about women in leadership positions.

8 March 2024 | Münster 

March 8th, 2024 marks a momentous occasion for the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center (S2BMRC) to spread awareness for gender equality and the importance of women*s in our society.  

07 March 2024 | Münster

In a new teaching format created through a Wandelfonds project, students at the FH Münster learn how to critically assess scientific and non-scientific arguments and expert opinions and formulate their knowledge and opinions comprehensibly.

29 February 2024 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre at our university focuses on the interactions between science, business and society. It was set up by Prof Dr Thomas Baaken, who is handing over the leadership to new hands.

29 February 2024 | Münster 

After a lifetime dedicated to innovation and shaping the landscape of our research fields, Thomas Baaken, the visionary founder of The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center (S2BMRC), announces his retirement, marking the end of an era and the beginning of a new chapter. 

22 February 2024 | Adelaide

Our PhD Candidate Annika Wesbuer spends three months at the University of Adelaide, engaging in a valuable research collaboration that was made possible thanks to the efforts of Prof. Dr. habil. Thomas Baaken. Prof. Baaken played a pivotal role in establishing this cooperation, fostering academic connections that enrich our research endeavors.

20 February 2024 | Münster

We are thrilled to present the latest edition of the eWBL (online work-based learning) newsletter, bringing you the most recent updates and outcomes from our project. This newsletter signifies an important milestone in our journey, as we proudly announce the publication of our research findings in the esteemed "Studies in Higher Education" journal.

21 February 2024 | Münster

To kick-start our new Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership Project "Ethical and Responsible Transportation and Handling" (EARTH), Matías Eduardo Escanilla Becerra and Judith Helmer from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) joined the recent Transnational Project Meeting (TPM) in Szczecin, Poland.

9 February 2024 | Münster

In a bittersweet moment for the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, we bid adieu to our esteemed Acting Manager, Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero, as she embarks on an exciting new chapter in her illustrious career. Dr. Rossano-Rivero has accepted the position as a full Professor at Hochschule Niederrhein, commencing March 1, 2024.

30 January 2024 | Münster

As part of the Change Lab project funded by the Münster School of Business, a semester project called Change Lab 3.0was developed last semester under the direction of Judith Helmer, research associate at S2BMRC. This project is a cooperation between the FH Münster, the climate community Saerbeck, and the Maximilian-Kolbe-Gesamtschule (MKG), a comprehensive school in Saerbeck.

18 January 2024 | Münster

We are excited to share that we published our New Work Barometer Münsterland! In collaboration with noventum, we conducted a research study with over 100 employees in Münsterland, delving into the current state of New Work in their organizations. This Whitepaper is a great example of our core, building the bridge between Science and Business, as well as Society.

17 - 18 January 2024 | Helsinki

We're elated to share the exciting news that Dominik Lappenküper recently participated in the kick-off meeting for our new Erasmus+ project CiE Gateway - Collaboration in Education, hosted in the vibrant city of Helsinki. The meeting was a resounding success, setting the tone for what promises to be a remarkable collaboration

16 January 2024 | Münster

We are happy to share that our semester project group, consisting of 3 Master students from the International Marketing and Sales program and 4 Bachelor students, supervised by Prof. Thomas Baaken and PhD Candidate Dominik Lappenküper, successfully concluded their project with Finanz Informatik, which develops innovative digital banking solutions, located in Münster, Hannover, and Frankfurt.

15 January 2024 | Adelaide and Auckland

In an exciting start to the new year, Katrin Uude and Judith Helmer, both PhD candidates at the University of Adelaide and Research Associates at the S2BMRC, ventured far to participate in two intellectually stimulating conferences.

15 January 2024 | Münster 

Under the mentorship of Nelli Scharapow, a semester project has emerged within the WE.Lead Project, funded by BMBF. This German initiative is dedicated to amplifying women in leadership and supporting female entrepreneurs in launching and expanding their startups.

12 January 2024 | Münster

Great atmosphere and excellent entertainment marked the University of Münster's New Year's reception at the Münster Castle on Friday evening, January 12. The focal points of the event were the New Year's address by Rector Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels and the presentation of three awards, each showcased in short films.

21 December 2023 | Münster

We are thrilled to announce the release of the eWBL (electronic work-based learning) Framework, available for download. This milestone achievement stems from our Erasmus+ project, eWBL, dedicated to providing comprehensive guidance on delivering effective work-based learning experiences for students in online or hybrid formats. 

12 December 2023 | Münster

PR3 is composed of a collection of instruments and best practices (toolkit) that will help to strengthen the skills and capacities of mentors and provide them with the right means to impact and support women entrepreneurs through mentoring.

7-8 December 2023 | Münster

The Final Coordination Meeting of the WeRin project happened on December 7^th and 8^th 2023 in Münster, Germany. Organised by Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero, WeRin Project Leader, and Maynara Furquim, WeRin Project Coordinator, and hosted at REACH - EUREGIO Start-up Centre, the partner universities, the regional partners, and international institutes came together to discuss the final steps of the project.

6 December 2023 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences is exited to lead our new Erasmus+ project "NatAlli - Fostering the Renascence of Societies through Lifelong Learning Mentoring Programmes and Allies".

1-2 December, 2023 | Münster

In a collaboration with academic committee and PhD candidates, the workshop served as a platform for scholars to showcase their research employing the innovative 'Research Design Canvas.' The two-day workshop was enriching, fostering connections and engaging participants in thought-provoking discussions with academic faculty and fellow researchers. 

29 November - 2 December 2023 | Leitrim

The eWBL project had a third successful face-to-face TPM, held in Ireland last week. The gathering saw all six partners meet to reflect and discuss the project's progress since it began in 2021. Following the partner meeting, consortium partner Momentum facilitated a comprehensive 3-day workshop. 

22 November 2023 | Münster

The participants took part in exciting workshops with the experts, about varied crucial topics, such as "Inclusive Finance", which WeRin Project Leader, Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero, and WeRin Project Coordinator, Maynara Furquim, conducted. The session showcased the WeRin results and piloted some of the resources produced (WeRin Toolbox), especially under the Principle Visibility of Support & Finance.

24 November 2023 | Münster

S2BMRC is excited to share insights from the recent Women's Empowerment Convention, a ground breaking event held on November 22, 2023, at the Atlantic Hotel in Münster. Central to the convention was our representation of the WE.Lead project, "Women Entrepreneurs empowered to lead."

22-23 November 2023 | Bonn

Elina Isakova, an academic researcher at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, participated in the Kick-Off für Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships 2023 in Bonn. She presented the new project NatAlli, which aims to develop a mentoring programme and an online community to train and accompany highly educated Ukrainian women.

22 November 2023 | Münster

In a resounding display of collaboration and empowerment, the first Women's Empowerment Convention unfolded on November 22, 2023, at the prestigious Atlantic Hotel. Our Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre organized in partnership with the University of Münster, FH Münster, and the REACH - EUREGIO Start-up Center, this ground breaking event aimed to enhance the representation and visibility of women in entrepreneurship, the start-up scene, leadership, and innovation.

9-10 November 2023 | Naples

Elina Isakova, an academic researcher at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, went to Naples (Italy) to meet face-to-face with the consortium of the RestART project, where she is the project manager.

6 November 2023 | Berlin

Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero (Acting Professor) presented her research on "Academic Entrepreneurship and Fostering Women's Entrepreneurship at Universities" during the Mexican Science Day, within the framework of the Berlin Science Week 2023 (1-10 November).

27 October 2023 | Münster

Working with students from six different countries on a solution to the world's challenges - this was the opportunity offered by "Moving the Cities". The Entrepreneurship Week took place for the fifth time but for the first time at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences.

24-25 October 2023 | Nicosia

The 4th ENHANCER Transnational Project Meeting in Cyprus saw active involvement from the Science to Business Marketing Research Centre, of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences. The event was hosted by the Centre for Social Innovation and brought together project partners from Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.

24 October 2023 | Münster

Women are represented differently in society and professional life. The initiative "Female Empowerment & Entrepreneurship" aims to empower women on their individual career paths and in the start-up ecosystem.

5 October 2023 | Steinfurt

Together with participants from diverse departments, Daria Gerke with support from Steven Bors delved into the topics of Regenerative Economics and Living Labs questioning: "How is the FH Münster positioned regarding regenerative economic practices?" and "How can the setup of Living Labs at FH Münster support the transformation towards a regenerative university?".

2 October 2023 | Münster

At the Innovative Women in Focus (IFIF) networking event held on September 28, 2023, participants had the opportunity to delve into the complexities of societal engagement with Katrin Uude from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre.

28 September, 2023 | Szczecin

The meeting, conducted in a hybrid format focused on the outcomes of the project's second phase, with particular emphasis on the CoCreAid Toolkit, and was to set the ground for the upcoming third project phase.

22 September 2023 | Münster

Pupils from the "Hansa-Berufskolleg Münster" visited our FH Münster. As part of the "XRegions" project, we were allowed to run through an accelerated design thinking process with the students, led by our PhD candidate Annika Wesbuer. 

20 September 2023 | Münster

The Digital Hub münsterLAND develops digital business models with SMEs, start-ups and techies and our team had the chance to get to know them better.

19 September 2023 | Adelaide

Dr. Iulia Stroila, a dedicated member of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, achieved a significant academic milestone by receiving her Doctor of Philosophy degree, with all the rights, privileges and duties that go with it.

18 September 2023 | Münster

In a significant step towards preparing the next generation of digital transformation leaders, the Managing Digital Transformation (MDT) Academy recently completed its pilot phase.

14 September 2023 | Münster

RestART Europe is proudly introducing the platform Ment-Net: Empowering RestARTing Women and Non-Binary Entrepreneurs in the Arts and Creative Sector. The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences  is a part of consortium that works on this project.

12 September 2023 | Adelaide

The Entrepreneurship Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC) at The University of Adelaide welcomed Iulia Stroila to lead a seminar with ECIC researchers dedicated to the topic of social entrepreneurship. 

6 September 2023 | United Kingdom

The eWBL Framework was showcased in two sessions at the 2023 ASET conference. Habtamu Garomssa, the eWBL Project Manager from the Science to Business Marketing Research Center and Samantha Carty, EU project specialist from Momentum Consulting represented the eWBL project and actively engaged with the community of practice present at the conference.

4 September 2023 | Tallinn

Last week, S2BMRC team member Nelli Scharapow went to the ESU summer school that took her to the heart of Estonia. For one week, she had the opportunity to dive headfirst into the world of entrepreneurship, guided by a diverse group of experts and scholars in the field.

30 August - 1 September 2023 | Paris

S2BMRC team member Elina Isakova visited the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research Summer School 2023 hosted by IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School, from August 30-September 1. During this school she had the privilege of presenting the first paper of her PhD work, delving into the fascinating world of entrepreneurial ecosystems research.

27 August 2023 | Saerbeck

Hacer Tercanli, Pia Töns, and Judith Helmer from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre were on Sunday presented at the festival "Wir Brennen Fürs Klima", at the booth of the Erasmus+ project "Citizen Science NOW".

18 August 2023 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre had the privilege of hosting the "S2B Think Tank 2023" - a vibrant gathering between our team of PhD Candidates from the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and representatives of key stakeholders of an innovation ecosystem.

15 August 2023 | Münster

Judith Helmer, representing S2BMRC, participated in the recent Transnational Project Meeting held in Athens. The meeting, which took place from July 3rd to 4th, was hosted by the Athens University of Economics and Business and marked a significant milestone within the Erasmus+ Strategic Alliances Project "Managing Digital Transformation."

8 August 2023 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre team leader Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero explained the importance of women's networks on the local TV "WDR-Lokalzeit" during the Women's Business Day.

1 August 2023 | Münster

Daria Gerke is joining our Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre family as a Research Associate and PhD Candidate. Also, she will be working on the Erasmus+ REGENU project and the BMBF project SUNrise Lab.

4 July 2023 | Greven

We are happy to share that our semester project group, consisting of 2 Master students from the International Marketing and Sales program, and 7 Bachelor students, supervised by Prof. Thomas Baaken and Nelli Scharapow, successfully concluded their project with egeplast.

28 June 2023 | Barcelona

S2BMRC team participated in the hybrid conference "Triple Helix" hosted by the La Salle - Ramon Llull University (Barcelona, Spain) to present the project "CoCreAid Kit 4.0".

28 June 2023 | Barcelona

Habtamu Garomssa, Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the S2BMRC, presented the results of eWBL project comprehensive needs analysis study on hybrid and online work-based learning at the Triple Helix & ACEEU Conference 2023.

26 June 2023 | Kassel

7 students and three supervisors offered a marketing and sales strategy to our business partner "TechConsult" from Hessen. "TechConsult" developed a digital tool to determine the digital competences of employees anonymously. For this new service, Peter Burghardt (Techconsult's CEO) assigned us the task of defining target groups and the elated decision makers as well as a sales strategy.  

26 June 2023 | Münster

An international group of dedicated Bachelor and Master Marketing students from FH Münster, led by Dominik Lappenküper from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, has successfully completed their semester-long project on artificial intelligence (AI) in education. 

19-22 June 2023 | Münster

For four days, Dr Henry Shi from ECIC at The University of Adelaide, Australia, visited our research centre at the invitation of Dr Iulia Stroila. During his stay he advised our PhD candidates and conducted a workshop on "Navigating the Publishing Process: Theoretical Contributions, Key Findings and Recommendations".

13 June 2023 | Münster

Women Entrepreneurs Empowered to Lead (WE.Lead) is a forward-thinking German initiative and it is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The kick-off had the purpose of presenting the project structure to the partner-companies and working together on the "Impact of WE.Lead workshop".

6-9 June 2023 | Ravello

Judith Helmer, a researcher and a PhD candidate at the S2BMRC, recently participated in the Naples Forum on Service 2023, which took place in Ravello, Italy.

5-9 June 2023 | St. Gallen

S2BMRC Ph.D. candidate, Habtamu Garomssa, actively participated in the methodology bootcamp titled 'Quality Comparative Analysis' organized by St. Gallen University's Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM). The bootcamp, held from 5th to 9th June 2023, was led by Prof. Peer Fiss, a renowned scholar in the field. 

3-6 June 2023 | Wellesley

S2BMRC team member Elina Isakova had an opportunity to be a part of the 2023 Diana International Research Institute (DIRI) Conference at Babson College in Wellesley, US. The theme for the conference is "Women's Entrepreneurship: Exploring Diversity of Experiences and Impacts".

26 May 2023 | Minnesota

For one week, four of our university partners set a common goal. The common aim is to internationalise the XRegions ecosystems of FH Münster with partners from Minnesota, Brazil, Chile and the United Kingdom. 

26 May 2023 | Krakow

Since the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) of MSB and the School of Management of UEK are closely working together, Prof. Dr. Thomas Baaken visited the University day of the University of Economics to express the high importance of cooperation of the two Universities for 34 years.

25 May 2023 | Münster

We are thrilled to present the highlights from the just-completed Multiplier Event: Value & Future, which was held on May 25, 2023, in Münster, Germany. The event, which was planned with the intention of distributing ethical entrepreneurship education tools and understanding of ethical business and leadership, was a tremendous success.

24-25 May 2023 | Zaragoza

The ENHANCER Transnational Project Meeting brought together 17 participants from 6 countries. The meeting aimed to reflect on the competencies of social entrepreneurs, prioritize them for integration into a digital escape room and discuss the desirable features of the digital escape room to foster social entrepreneurship skills.

22-23 May 2023 | Cork

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre team went to Cork, Ireland, for the International Capacity Building Session of the WeRin project.

22-23 May 2023 | Bonn

S2BMRC team member Choiwai Maggie Chak presented her future-oriented project "ReGenerate Strategies in Higher Education Institutes" at one of the project market sessions of the Erasmus+ Forum for Partnerships and Cooperation Projects. 

21 May 2023 | Adelaide

We are thrilled to announce the successful completion of doctoral studies by our team member, Iulia Stroila. Iulia's dissertation, titled "Entrepreneurial ecosystem well-being: Unpacking the multilevel, multidimensional, and configurational nature of ecosystem health," has captivated the academic community with its exceptional research and insightful findings. 

17 May 2023 | Zagreb

S2BMRC team member Dominik Lappenküper participated in a productive meeting in Zagreb for the Erasmus+ project DigiTransformEdu, focused on the digital transformation of higher education. Project partners discussed current results and exciting next steps to shape the future of learning. 

16 May 2023 | Münster

The winners of the "MARKETING AWARD 2023" were selected during a public event of the Marketing Club Münster/Osnabrück, moderated by Tom Schult, Vice President of the Marketing Club.

9-11 May 2023 | Budapest

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre team participated in the University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) Conference 2023 in Budapest, Hungary.

10 May 2023 | Budapest

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre team member Elina Isakova presented research insights of the first project result RestART Europe at the University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) Conference 2023 in Budapest.

10 May 2023 | Budapest

The key insights about success factors, barriers, and requirements of digital co-creation between Higher Education Institutions, NGOs and Citizens were summarized and visualized on a poster, which was presented at the University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) Conference 2023.

3 May 2023 | Lengerich

On May 3, 2023, four municipalities from the Steinfurt district invited participants to a workshop on the future form of cooperation among them. Some 70 representatives from the municipal councils, city administrations, members of state and federal parliaments, companies and the urban society participated.

25-27 April 2023 | Barcelona

Yes - human towers, a fascinating Catalan tradition, where different generations are building a tower together. The values it represents are teamwork, integration, social cohesion, solidarity, equity, friendship and many more. Exactly those are representing well the project Value and Future, for which our team member Nelli Scharapow went to Spain for a transnational project meeting and multiplier event.

24-26 April 2023 | Prague

Our PhD candidate Annika Wesbuer presented the results of the qualitative study to the project partners of the Erasmus+ project "Blockchain for Agri-food Educators" at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague.

25 April 2023 | Münster

The survey focuses on the lived experiences of entrepreneurs and the type of knowledge and skills they draw on in driving their entrepreneurial initiatives. The results of the survey would be an invaluable input for creating a Digital Educational Escape Room.

13 April 2023 | Greven

Our semester project, in collaboration with egeplast, successfully started with a kick-off meeting in Greven.

The company invited the FH Münster Team, including Prof. Baaken and Nelli Scharapow from the S2BMRC, to supervise an international master's and bachelor's students' group.

23 March to 7 April 2023 | Bega Valley and Wollongong

Iulia Stroila was invited by iAccelerate as a panel discussant at the Regional Innovation Summit for Entrepreneurs in the Bega Valley, Australia. The Summit brought together entrepreneurs, business owners, and problem solvers in one place to highlight promising regional businesses, connect entrepreneurs, industry, investors, and government, and showcase First Nations business perspectives.

6 April 2023 I  Wollongong, Australia

Iulia Stroila was invited as an honorary member to the Entrepreneurial Women's Breakfast organised by iAccelerate. Women entrepreneurs from various industries came together for the  Women's Entrepreneurship Breakfast held at iAccelearte.

3 April 2023 | Münster

Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero, Director of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre at the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, participates as an expert in the international course for academic rectors on entrepreneurship at universities 2023.

16 March 2023 | Münster

A group of 20 Ethiopian presidents of Universities of Applied Sciences visited FH Münster University of Applied Sciences as part of the HELM Programme (Higher Education Leadership and Management). The Study Tour was coordinated by CHE Centre of Higher Education, Osnabrück and Hochschule Osnabrück.

15 March 2023 | Münster

With the publication of the first synthesis report, the S2BMRC team successfully completes the first milestone of the CoCreAid Kit 4.0 project. The report focuses on digital solutions for co-creation by examining the current success factors, barriers, and requirements to digital co-creation between HEIs and NGOs.

7 March 2023 | Münster

In an exclusive interview with S2B Presse, Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero, Acting Professor for "Innovation Management and Business Development" at MSB - Münster School of Business, shares insights into her fascinating role as a member of the advisory board for a groundbreaking start-up in the "AGRAR 4.0" sector.

27-28 February 2023 | Venice

The transnational kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ Forward Thinking project ReGenerate Strategies for Higher Education Institutions was successfully held at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Experts from various fields across Europe discussed the role of higher education institutions in accelerating society's transition from an extractive to a regenerative economy.

16 February 2023 | Madrid

Our S2BMRC team member Nelli Scharapow went to Madrid for the final project meeting for FABLE-Training Faculty on Blended Learning. Within two days the consortium discussed and clarified in a hybrid format the final phase of the project, including the finalisation of the last Intellectual Output.

14 February 2023 | Münster

Students from the International Marketing and Sales Master's program FH Münster University of Applied Science finished their semester project together with the project supervisor Dominik Lappenküper from S2BMRC team. They presented their final results and recommendations to WEICON, which was really happy and appreciated the various insights.

13 February 2023 | Münster

20 professors, PhD candidates, and academic staff from the entrepreneurship centers of the universities participated at the workshop to meet and connect to fellow researchers, engage in discussions on shared topics, and explore opportunities for potential research and practice collaboration projects.

9-10 February 2023 | Leeuwarden

Elina Isakova, an academic researcher at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, went to Leeuwarden (Netherlands) to meet for the first time face-to-face with the consortium of the RestART project in which she is the project manager.

9 February 2023 | Brisbane

Iulia Stroila of Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center (S2BMRC), FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and her co-authors, Prof. Paul Steffens and Prof. Carolin Plewa, The University of Adelaide, received the Best Qualitative Paper Award at the ACERE 2023 conference for their research on entrepreneurial ecosystems.

8 February 2023 | Münster 

Last week, the semester project with Greiwing & Schmitz Cargobul under the direction of Prof. Dr. habil. Thomas Baaken and supervised by our PhD Candidate Annika Wesbuer was successfully completed.

7 February 2023 | Münster 

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre team prepared the report that summarizes the findings of 6 case studies that were undertaken in Germany as part of our Erasmus+ project eWBL.

1 February 2023 | Münster

The project FABLE is coming to an end, and our S2BMRC team member Nelli Scharapow hosted a hybrid multiplier event to spread the project results, including the open resources. The consortium from 5 European countries found needs and expectations in online learning, worked on blended learning approaches and created an online learning platform to train faculty on blended learning.

31 December 2023 | Münster

Bachelor and Master students of the FH Münster School of Business have developed a teaching concept for Blockchain in higher education in the agri-food sector under the guidance of our PhD candidate Annika Wesbuer.

30 January 2023 | Münster

Students from the International Marketing and Sales Master's program finished their semester project for Dermasence together with the project coordinator Dr. Sue Rossano and their supervisors Iulia Stroila, Elina Isakova, Maynara Furquim, and Nelli Scharapow from the S2BMRC team. 

23 January 2023 | Adelaide

Judith Helmer and Katrin Uude from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre are conducting a three-month research stay at the Adelaide Business School as part of their cooperative PhDs between the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and the University of Adelaide.

9 January 2023 | Münster

Our team member Nelli Scharapow hosted an entrepreneurial event in connection to the Value and Future Project in behalf of the German Team.

31 December 2022 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, based at Münster School of Business, celebrates its 20th birthday and looks back on many events and further ahead.

20 December 2022 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) team member Nelli Scharapow hosted an ET Talk in connection to the Value and Future Project on behalf of the German Team. The entrepreneur Marie Ueckeroth with her company malunt joined the session. 

15 December | Münster

S2BMRC hosted an educational escape room (EER) activity, as part of the Erasmus+ project "UNLOCK: Creativity through game-based learning at higher education". The EER was attended by 10 participants that involved a mix of academic lecturer/ teacher trainers, start-up mentors, research associates, lecturers, and bachelor students

5 December 2022 | Szczecin

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre team participated in the hybrid conference "Scientific Conference: Economy, Management, Environment" hosted by the University of Szczecin to present the projects "CoCreAid Kit 4.0" and "Innovating Digitally".

1 December 2022 | Münster

Elina Isakova has been working in the S2BMRC for two years as a research assistant in the projects WeRin, RestART. Now she is joining our team as Research Associate and PhD Candidate.

30 November - 02 December 2022 | Hamburg

S2BMRC intern team member Matías Eduardo Escanilla participated in the Pride Innovation Challenge 2022, powered by Deloitte, in Hamburg, Germany. 

29-30 November 2022 | Groningen

The second transnational partner meeting of eWBL (Work Based Learning) project was hosted by the University of Groningen. After more than 10 months of working online, the project partners had the chance to meet in person for the first time. The meeting represented an important milestone for the project as it marked the successful completion of the first work package. 

29 November 2022 | Münster

The FABLE project aims to train faculty on blended learning, transforming courses into hybrid mode. The team worked on four different work packages. Additionally, a platform is established, and a white paper will be finished at the end of the year. All the results will be available and accessible on the website very soon. 

28 November 2022 | Adelaide

S2BMRC team member Iulia Stroila undertakes a 3-month research stay at the Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC) as part of her cooperative PhD between FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and the University of Adelaide.

23 November 2022 | Enschede

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) team member Choi Wai (Maggie) Chak was awarded the title of "Doctor of Philosophy, with all the rights, privileges and duties that go with it".

23 November 2022 | Enschede

Members of REACH from the University of Münster, FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and the University of Twente meet regularly for a respective exchange. This time the meeting took place at the INCUBASE of novelT in UTwente: novelT helps new businesses get off the ground and existing businesses innovate.

21 November 2022 | Münster

The "MarketingFrauen" from the Marketing Club Münster-Osnabrück were guests at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center (S2BMRC). The sold-out evening was dedicated to the topic of gender-specific communication.

17-18 November 2022 | Naples

S2BMRC team members Elina Isakova and Dominik Lappenküper participated in the RENT XXXVI Conference in Naples, Italy. This year's main topic was "Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis".

11 November 2022 | Münster

S2BMRC team member Nelli Scharapow took the chance to encourage and make the entrepreneurial community and the university stakeholders at the HTSF Conference 2022 aware of the importance of Ethics and Values.

11 November 2022 | Münster

The major results of "Boundary Spanner Development" project were shared with an international group of participants from Germany and Netherlands. The multiplier event was organized on 11^th November 2022, in conjunction with the 27^th edition of the High Technology Small Firm (HTSF) conference.

10-11 November 2022 | Münster

The High Technology Small Firms (HTSF) conference has a long history, and the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) is honoured to host the 27^th edition in Münster under the topic "The Path to Excellence in Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship." We had two really productive days and engaging networking.

10-11 November 2022 | Münster

S2BMRC team member Hacer Tercanli hosted the second transnational partner meeting of the project "Digital Citizen Science: Network, transfOrm, groW" (Citizen Science NOW). The two-day meeting focused on the finalization of the first project output, the Future Foresight Research Report.

9 November 2022 | Münster

PhD candidates from five universities participated in the PhD workshop, which took place in Münster on 9 November during the High-Tech Small Firm (HTSF) conference. The workshop was hosted by the Science to Business Marketing Research Centre of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences.

8 November 2022 | Münster

Bachelor and Master students work together on a business challenge in the cooperation with Greiwing Truck and Trailers company. In other words, students gain direct insights into companies during their study. We have already started the project with a Design Thinking Sprint led by Annika Wesbuer.

04 November 2022 | Münster

S2BMRC team member Choi Wai Maggie Chak published her Ph.D.-Thesis on "Towards Highly Performing Community-Academic Health Partnership". The dissertation was conducted as part of a cooperative doctoral program between FH Münster University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and University of Twente (Netherlands).

28 October 2022 | Online

Students from Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Netherlands will work together in different teams for 5 weeks to learn more about social entrepreneurship and interview a social entrepreneur from different countries to understand the skills needed to make an impact.

26-27 October 2022 | Hungary

Our S2BMRC team member Nelli Scharapow went to the Transnational Project Meeting in Györ, Hungary, for the project FABLE. The two-day meeting was very impactful, the partners discussed the final steps and revised the platform they were creating.

24 October 2022 | Münster

S2BMRC team member Nelli Scharapow participated in the Value and Future Transnational Meeting. Some changes and announcements were made in the meeting, and a discussion on the work packages and tasks for the last upcoming year of the project followed. 

14 October 2022 | Slovakia

The new Erasmus+ project "Blockchain Education in the Agrifood Sector" had its kick-off meeting. S2BMRC of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences took the research lead in the project.

12-13 October 2022 | Bonn

S2BMRC team members participated in the thematic monitoring of all Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships and Cooperation Partnerships projects organized by the DAAD. Our PhD Candidates Habtamu Garomssa and Katrin Uude presented two projects: eWBL & COCREAID.

5-8 October 2022 | Berlin

S2BMRC PhD candidate Hacer Tercanli participated in the ECSA Conference 2022, which took place from October 5-8 in Berlin, Germany. She presented the initial results of research phase of the Erasmus+ project Digital Citizen Science: Network, transfOrm, groW (Citizen Science NOW).

5 October 2022 | Münster

The event was led by S2BMRC team members Maggie Chak and Nelli Scharapow. It attracted 20 regional and local participants, including representatives from local small-and-medium sized enterprises, vocational educational trainers (VETs) (e.g., food hubs, incubators, nutritionists), and policymakers.

5 October 2022 | Münster

The Erasmus+ project Digital Social Impact team released their new "Best Practice Audit Report on social impact teaching across Europe". The project team interviewed more than 50 lecturers from 16 countries and identified success factors for a three-phase process toward social impact in higher education teaching.

3-4 October 2022 | Aveiro

Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero participated in two days Transnational Project Meeting in Aveiro, Portugal, for our project ENHANCER. Together with the Universidad de Zaragoza, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Questomatica Escape Experiences, Center for Social Innovation Cyprus - CSICY and Universidade de Aveiro, we are working on developing educational approaches based on gaming techniques and digital Scape rooms to teach social entrepreneurship.

1 October 2022 | Münster

After five years of improving social challenges in rural areas with 13 different FH-related project members, the münster.land.leben project came to a successful end on 29 September. The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center (S2BMRC) was an essential component of this project, and here are our achievements.

29 September 2022 | Amsterdam

Eva Sormani, team member of the S2BMRC, was awarded the title of "Doctor of Philosophy, with all the rights, privileges and duties that go with it".

22-23 September 2022 | Dresden

S2BMRC PhD candidate Dominik Lappenküper participated in the G-Forum Conference 2022 and presented findings from his ongoing bibliometric study with Rainer Harms and Thorsten Kliewe on Artificial Intelligence adoption inside businesses.

17 September 2022 | Oxford 

Studying at one of the most impressive universities in the world - our S2BMRC team member Pia Töns had the opportunity to immerse herself in the student life of the University of Oxford for a fortnight. 

15 September 2022 | Seville

Iulia Stroila and her co-authors, Prof. Paul Steffens and Prof. Carolin Plewa, The University of Adelaide, received the 2022 ESU Conference Best Paper Award in the mature group for their qualitative work on the well-being of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

12-13 September 2022 | Dublin

The Science to Business Marketing Research Centre team members Judith Helmer and Nataly Velychko travelled to Dublin to meet our partners in the "Digital Innovation" project.

11-13 September 2022 | Pisa

Our PhD Candidates Choi Wai Maggie Chak, Eva Sormani, Annika Wesbuer, and Katrin Uude visited the CINet Conference organized by the University of Pisa. This year's conference theme was "Pursuing Innovation for a Smart & Sustainable Future."

11 September 2022 | Münster

This year's Volksbank Münster Marathon had more than 9,300 runners. The Science-to-Business Marketing Running Team took part in the marathon with the participation of our Research Associates and PhD Candidates Adisa Ejubovic and Hacer Tercanli and our Director Sue Rossano-Rivero.

9 September 2022 | Verona

S2BMRC PhD Candidate Judith Helmer participated in the 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2022). She presented the conference paper titled "Teaching Digital Innovation Processes for Services in Higher Education" which was co-authored by Acting Professor Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero and Thuong Huynh from our research centre.

1 September 2022 | Münster

Nelli Scharapow has been working in our Centre for over a year now as a research assistant and now she has the opportunity to follow up on her work with more responsibility, as a research associate/project manager with the European projects "FABLE" and "Value & Future".

19 August 2022 | Münster

Last semester, a group of eight students of the FH Münster School of Business developed a communication strategy for the Münster-based company noventum consulting GmbH. Supervised by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Kurzhals and Judith Helmer from S2BMRC, the students were able to conduct valuable analyses.

20 July 2022 | Münster

The PhD workshop will be held on November 9th, 2022, one day before the 27th edition of the High-Tech Small Firm (HTSF) conference. It is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present their work and receive constructive feedback from peers and seasoned researchers active in their line of research.

14 July 2022 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre invites you to present your work at the High Technology Small Firms (HTSF) conference 2022. This year's HTSF conference embraces the ever-expanding spectrum of research on Entrepreneurship, acknowledging the variety of its manifestations and emerging forms with a strong focus on Knowledge, Science and Technology.

7-8 July 2022 | Trieste

Adisa Ejubovic, a research associate at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, went to Trieste (Italy) to meet for the first time face-to-face with the consortium of the DigiTransformEdu project in which she is the project manager.

4 July 2022 2022 |  Münster

Students of the Münster School of Business (MSB) have investigated in a course under the direction of Katrin Uude from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC), how the association from Coesfeld can raise its profile in Münster and the surrounding area. At the end of the semester, they now presented their results to the Bunter Kreis Münsterland e.V.

21 - 24 June 2022 | Münster

Four higher education institutions from different countries discussed ideas to offer new activities in this international and intercultural frame. In order to define a common view on the central challenge and to get to know the needs of the target group, we conducted a Design Thinking Workshop. This design thinking workshop was led by our PhD Candidate Annika Wesbuer, who is involved in this XRegions project as a design thinking officer.

15 June 2022 | Amsterdam

University-Business Co-Creation (UBC) is an essential part of the research of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre. The literature focuses on drivers and factors that influence this co-creation. Meanwhile, due to the "Third Mission", University-Society Co-Creation (USC) has also become an enormous part of our research institute.

9 - 10 June 2022 | Granada

After more than a year and a half of digital collaboration in the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project "Pioneering Innovative Food for Seniors", the project partners gathered for the final transnational project meeting hosted by one of our partners Ageing Lab Foundation in Granada, Spain. 

3 June 2022 | Münster

In cooperation with Ladbergen, Lengerich, Lienen and Tecklenburg, a project team from S2BMRC investigated how the municipalities can improve their awareness and attractiveness through cooperation.

How can communities in rural areas become more attractive for residents and tourists? This question was addressed by a team of four students led by Professor Thomas Baaken at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre at Münster School of Business.

1 June 2022 | Münster

Nataliia Velychko holds a Master's degree in Research Engineering from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" in Kyiv, Ukraine.

27 May 2022 | Cracow

Professor Thomas Baaken was appointed as one of two reviewers on the h.c. (honoris causa) doctorate of University of Economics of Cracow for Professor Cecile Nieuwenhuizen from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

25 May 2022 | Münster

On Wednesday, 25 May, the team of the new Citizen Science competition "Auf die Plätze! Citizen Science in deiner Stadt" invited academics and practitioners to a digital lunch break. In line with the focus of the competition, which aims to strengthen the exchange between science and society and make Citizen Science visible as a format for cooperation, the lunch break focused on the success factors of collaborations.

23 May 2022 | Münster

On the 23^rd of May a Future Days event took place at the Münster School of Business, which was attended by 26 students, 5 lecturers and 2 entrepreneurs. The Future Days are an initiative from the Erasmus+ project Value and Future and were organized as part of the lecture series in the module international marketing.

The event with a more than 30 attendants was organized to spark interaction between students, lecturers and entrepreneurs to discuss ethics in entrepreneurship.

19 May 2022 | Coventry, UK

Prof. Thomas Baaken from S2BMRC was invited to deliver a Key Note Presentation to the 2022 Think Tank Event on "The Future of Small Businesses" organised by Coventry University in the UK 

After 2 years of absence - respectively only delivery via online solution - the Think Tank took place again face-to-face in the new Conference Centre of Coventry Uni.

18 - 20 May 2022 | Kolding

Iulia Stroila and Annika Wesbuer presented their research at the 21st Nordic Conference on Small Business Research 2022 in Kolding, Denmark. The conference, hosted this year by the University of Southern Denmark, aims to advance research in the field of small business and entrepreneurship and encourage the exchange of ideas between researchers within the entrepreneurship community.

15 May 2022 | Münster

The winners of the "MARKETING.CHANGE.AWARD. 2022" were selected at a public event organised by the Marketing Club Münster/Osnabrück, moderated by Tom Schult, Vice-President of the Club and Professor Thomas Baaken, MSB and Jury Member. The past two years have shown that change can be radical, but above all, it happens all the time. The speed at which marketing markets is also changing, markets, consumer behavior and media and media use are also constantly changing, makes marketers to top form.

12 May 2022 | Bonn & Münster

Jun.-Dr. Kerstin Kurzhals, Annika Wesbuer, and Katrin Uude from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre contributed to the Forum Citizen Science 2022. The conference brought together scholars interested in citizen science to discuss the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and citizen science, contributing to the motto "Global - Regional - Local: Citizen Science for the UN-Sustainable Development Goals".

3 May 2022 | Tecklenburg

Four communities in the Tecklenburger Land, a part of the district of Steinfurt, have joined together to form an action group in order to compete with cities and major centers in a rural region and perhaps even to prosper better.

29 April 2022 | Amsterdam 

Lead partner Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences hosted its five partners: Center for Social Innovation LTD from Cyprus; Questomatica from The Netherlands; Universidade de Aveiro from Portugal; Universidad de Zaragoza from Spain and FH Münster University of Applied Sciences on April 29, 2022, to kick off the ENHANCER project, an ERASMUS+ project on Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education.  

6 - 8 April 2022 | Potsdam

Our PhD Candidate Annika Wesbuer M.Sc. deepened her Design Thinking skills at the world's leading school for Design Thinking - "Hasso-Plattner-Institute" in Potsdam. She took part in the "Design Thinking Advanced" in the frame of the "münster.land.Leben" project to intensify various tools and train to moderate this process and apply it to further projects.

31 March 2022 | Münster

A great evening for the entrepreneurial scene in Münster! The NRW Hub-Battle was celebrated in Münster at the Jovel Music Hall. The event Hosted eight start-ups from eight regions in North Rhine-Westphalia to compete for the title of NRW Startup Champion. Together, the fanbases from each region in NRW and the top-class jury chose the winners.

2 March 2022 | Münster

The new Erasmus+ project "Digital Citizen Science: Network, transfOrm, groW" (for short "Citizen Science NOW") has recently kicked off at an online event organized by the project management team at the Science to Business Marketing Research Center (S2BMRC) of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences. During the next two years, five major partners from Germany (MUAS & ACEEU), Denmark (BESPOKE), the Netherlands (University of Twente), and Spain (University of Barcelona) will investigate how to establish and strengthen local sustainable Citizen Science networks.

1 March 2022 | Münster

Complex problems can be solved if science and society are working together. In their Co-Creation Toolbook, which has been published by Springer-Verlag as an open-access book (fh.ms/toolbook), the scientists of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre of the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Kurzhals, Katrin Uude, Choiwai Maggie Chak and Eva Sormani from the münster.land.leben project explain which methods support such co-creation projects.

1 March 2022 | Münster

The new ERASMUS+ project Co-Creation Aid Kit 4.0 (CoCreAid) led by the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) which is part of the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences had its official kick-off meeting on March 1^st and 2^nd. In the digital two-days workshop the delegates of the involved partner institutions, the Szczeninski University (Poland), the EGE University (Turkey), Merdidaunia Scarl (Italy), and the European E-learning Institute (Denmark) were officially introduced to the project.

18 February 2022 | Münster

Enhancing the inclusivity of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems and embeddedness of female entrepreneurs therein, through the design of more inclusive academic and non-academic entrepreneurship education and support programmes - this is the goal of the project WeRin - Women Entrepreneurs in Regional Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems led by Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre. Now the WeRin team has won the Social EU Award.

18 February 2022 | Münster

A pioneering European initiative, "RestART Europe-Mentoring Second-Chance Female Entrepreneurs to Restart the European Arts and Creative Sector", led by the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre at the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences brings together five partners from four countries. The project is funded by the ERASMUS+ Cooperation partnerships in adult education programme for a three-year timeframe.

17 February 2022 | Münster

This was the question that the 24 international students of the course "Creativity and Innovation" tackled during the last semester under the direction of PhD(c) Judith Helmer and Marie Cermann from the S2BMRC team. The course resulted in many specific solutions to plastic pollution in particular regions all over the world.

10 February 2022 | Münster

Jun.-Prof.Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero and PhD(c) Iulia Stroila presented their current research on Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Female Entrepreneurship. How can we increase the share of female graduate entrepreneurs and ensure they are firmly integrated in regional entrepreneurial ecosystems across Europe?

4 February 2022 | Münster

The Erasmus+ Strategic Alliances Project "Digital Innovation" consortium presents the Innovation Tools Scanner, a digital tools platform that provides an overview of the best digital innovation tools to facilitate the innovation process of diverse innovation projects.

28 January 2022 | Münster

The Science to Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) has officially started the ERASMUS+ project eWBL (work-based learning). The online kick-off meeting took place on the 28^th of January 2022.

The meeting was organized and led by S2BMRC as the project lead partner. Delegates from all partner institutions also attended

25 January 2022 | Münster

Armed with this expansive literature review, our WeRin research team, led by the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences with partners  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, University of Zagreb , Istanbul Technical University and Munster Technological University , explored within the context of entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurship education the impact of networks, role models, gender bias and stereotypes on the entrepreneurial behaviour and intentions of women.

13 January 2022 | Münster

Providing a mapping of a digital innovation process for services based on scientific literature and expert interviews.

As part of the Erasmus+ Strategic Alliances Project "Digital Innovation in the Service Sector", Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero, Judith Helmer and Thuong Huynh of the S2BMRC team published a scientific audit and a whitepaper on the digital innovation process for services.

12 January 2022 | Münster

As part of a S2BMRC project, bachelor's and master's students from the Münster School of Business at the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences developed various tools to help the NGO from South Africa and its learners.

YAT (Young Aspiring Thinkers) is an NGO that helps students (called YAT learners) in South Africa learn about different career options and follow their chosen career paths.

7 January 2022 | Münster

In collaboration with five international partners from the Pioneering Innovative Food for Seniors (PIFS) consortium, S2BMRC presents the latest Good Practice Guides for Innovating Food for Seniors.

There are two versions of the Good Practice Guide: one targeting Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and the other for Vocational Education and Training (VET) trainers.

17 December 2021 | online

Iulia Stroila has published an article on entrepreneurial ecosystem wellbeing in 'empower' magazine from enpact, a Berlin-headquartered non-profit organisation empowering entrepreneurship, ecosystems and international cooperation.

9-10 December 2021 | online

Habtamu Garomssa and Katrin Uude attended the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Projects kick-off meeting held on the 9th and 10th December 2021 and presented their upcoming projects.

The German National Agency for Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Projects i.e. DAAD organized a two-day workshop for the representatives of all Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Projects that were funded through the special call KA226 "Digital Education".

8-11 December 2021 | Amsterdam

After collaborating for almost two years, the UNLOCK project consortium was ready to share what they have learned about making and using educational escape rooms.

Hosted by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), the Learning Mobility involved further training of the participants in the topic of escape rooms, paired with a fun and educational social program.

1 December 2021 | Münster

Kerstin Kurzhals, junior professor and team leader of the research line "Science-to-Society" from S2BMRC published her Ph.D.-Thesis on Resource Recombination in Firms form a Dynamic Capability Perspective at Springer Gabler.

The dissertation was conducted as part of a cooperative doctoral program between FH Münster University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and Coventry University Business School (UK).

30 November 2021 | online

On the 30^th of November, a diverse group of 20 participants met for three hours to discuss how o better integrate female graduates into the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Münsterland' region. This local think tank is part of the European project Women Entrepreneurs in Regional Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (WeRin).

24-25 November 2021 | online

On the 24^th and 25^th of November a Virtual Ethical Entrepreneurship Teachers' Training took place. The training is an alternative for the 2-day extensive training that was planned in Cyprus for a total of 18 teachers from 6 countries. The shorter online training attracted even more participants due to the accessible format.

22 November 2021 | Münster

After one year of conceptualising intellectual outputs in the Erasmus+ Strategic Alliances Project "Managing Digital Transformation", the project partners came together for a transnational project meeting in our S2BMRC office in Münster to discuss the status-quo and develop next steps. Due to the current Covid situation, the event was held in a hybrid format, giving our partners the flexibility to decide whether to join in person or online.

15-17 November 2021 | Online

Hacer Tercanli MSc. of Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center (S2BMRC), FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and her co-author Dr. Ben Jongbloed of Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente received the 2021 JoLii Conference Best Paper Award for their work on the importance and benefits of Living Labs for the higher education institutions.

11-12 November 2021 | Potsdam 

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Kurzhals (Professorship in Science-to-Society - Engagement, Innovation & CoCreation) and PhD Candidate Annika Wesbuer M.Sc. joined at the 11^th and 12^th of November the Design Thinking Workshop at the Hasso-Plattner Institute - the HPI Academy, the Centre of Excellence for Innovation & Digital Transformation in Potsdam. The Institute is the world`s leading institute for Design Thinking.

31 October 2021 | Münster

Teaching students international and interdisciplinary skills - the goal of "Moving the Cities". Now the Entrepreneurship Week retook place - with many good ideas.

Health, education and climate are three global goals for sustainable development of the United Nations. Now 145 students from six countries dedicated themselves intensively to these goals: at the Entrepreneurship Week "Moving the Cities", they developed solutions for the world's problems.

18 October 2021 | Münster

Among 16 graduates, Claudia Umanzor and Habtamu Garomssa have recently successfully completed a "Mini MBA" certificate program on "Entrepreneurial Management" from the University of Münster (WWU) - congratulations!

14 October 2021 | Amsterdam

The S2BMRC is proud to announce: Eva Sormani received the official and formal "University Teaching Qualification (UTQ)" from VU Amsterdam.

The UTQ focuses on three central skills: teaching practice, supervising students and course design.

23-24 September 2021 | Münster

The 15^th Joint Amsterdam-Münster PhD Workshop was successfully held in Münster at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) on the 23^rd and 24^th of September 2021. The PhD workshop was organized under the main theme "Working with Theory". The workshop brought together a total of 13 PhD Candidates and four faculty members from the S2BMRC of the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam).

21 September 2021 | Münster

"Marketing Frauen" is the name of a new chapter from the Marketing-Club Münster/Osnabrück e.V. On 21^st of September 2021, the new chapter has hosted a first Live Club-evening entitled FrauenPower in der Region (Frauen Power in the region). The objectives of this new chapter are 1) to support more women across the Marketing-Club Münster/Osnabrück e.V. to gain more visibility and 2) to foster networking among them.  

15 September 2021 | Szczecin

During the course of the international, collaborative research project "Digital Innovation for the Service Sector", co-funded by the European Commission, the team of the S2BMRC under the management of Dr Sue Rossano-Rivero has conducted in-depth research on innovation processes.

1 September 2021 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kliewe and Sen.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Baaken has appointed Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero as the Deputy Managing Director of the Centre. Dr. Rossano-Rivero serves as Junior-Professor in "Entrepreneurship and International Business Development" at Münster School of Business and S2BMRC. 

31 August 2021 | Münster

Recently Dr Kerstin Kurzhals and her team publicized a toolbox that has been created as part of and in collaboration with the münster.land.leben project in a digital format. Münster.land.leben revolves around promoting health andwell-being in rural areas of the münsterland and is the biggest transdisciplinary transfer project at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences.

23 August 2021 | Münster

Denise Becker from the S2BMRC was awarded today by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce North Westphalia for her special honorary commitment to the development of the economic region Münsterland.

17 August 2021 | Münster/London

Thomas Baaken, Liguang Liu & Lea Lapornik published a new book chapter in the book "New Generation Entrepreneurship": Bricolage and Growth Hacking: Two Smart Concepts of Creating a Business Lacking Resources.

It presents two smart concepts of creating a new business without or with only low budget. Thus, it applies particularly for either students, refugees and/or people from developing countries.

1 August 2021 | Münster

The Research Line "Science-to-Innovation" of the S2BMRC published a new book on "Disruptive Innovation and Ambidextry - Basics, Recommendations, Case Studies".

18-23 July 2021 | Online Conference | Prague, Czech Republic

The 32nd International Congress of Psychology was held online on July 18-23, 2021. The main organiser of the 32nd ICP was the Czech and Moravian Psychological Society (ČMPS), strongly supported by the Union of Psychological Associations of the Czech Republic (UPA ČR) and under the auspices of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS).

16 July 2021 | Münster/Ennepetal

Cancer - this diagnosis alone is a shock for those affected and their relatives. When children are affected - in Germany, around 1,800 a year in their first 15 years of life - the blow is particularly severe for the parents. In addition, there are often existential problems, such as when one parent has to interrupt or even give up work.

5 July 2021 | Online

The assumption that underlies most entrepreneurial ecosystems is that all entrepreneurs can equally access the ecosystem's support. In theory, this assumption is valid - in practice, this is not always the case-a group of highly motivated students coordinated by PhD Candidate Iulia Stroila and Jun. Prof. Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero have created a booklet to collect stories of students, alumni, entrepreneurship educators, and women entrepreneurs from the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Münster, Germany.

30 June 2021 | Münster

The Science-to-Society group was honored to host the two-day kick-off meeting as the lead partner of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project "CSI: CustomDigiTeach". The CSI project is an international collaborative effort of five European partners, including FH Münster University of Applied Sciences (Germany), University of Osijek (Croatia), University of Ljubljana and the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Momentum Marketing Services (Ireland).

14-16 June 2021 | Online Conference 

The 2021 UIIN University-Industry Interaction Conference held Online, brought together more than 300 delegates from all over the world including managers, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of entrepreneurial universities, collaborative innovation, Science-to-Society and university-business cooperation among others.

8 - 9 June 2021 | Online

The second transnational meeting of the Erasmus + Partnership program "Value and Future" took place the 8^thand 9^th of June 2021 and was hosted by the German partner, the University of Applied Sciences Münster. Due to the current situation, the meeting was held on Zoom and the experiences, results, and status quo of the first months of the project were brought together.

1 June 2021 | Münster

Dominik Lappenküper has completed a dual course of studies in industrial engineering with the degree of "Bachelor of Engineering" at the Wirtschaftsakademie Kiel in cooperation with the Basler AG.

10 May 2021 | Münster

At the FORUM CITIZEN SCIENCE: "Vertrauen, Wirkung, Wandel - Citizen Science als Antrieb von Veränderung?" from May 6^th-7^th 2021 Dr. Kerstin Kurzhals and Katrin Uude from the S2BMRC presented their whitepaper on transfer barriers in transdisciplinary projects.

Since the complexity and scope of major societal challenges is increasing, innovative solutions are needed which cannot be developed by scientists alone. It requires the inclusion of societal actors in research and innovation activities to broaden the diversity of perspectives and knowledge.

10 May 2021 | Münsterland

ARDENT incubator is in full swing! As part of Erasmus+ project Advancing Rural Development through Entrepreneurship Education for Adults (ARDENT), managed by Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center, within FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences, an incubator was launched on 16^th April 2021.

9 April 2021 | Amsterdam/Münster 

Today the degree of "Doctor of Philosophy, together with all rights, privileges and responsibilities thereto appertaining" was awarded to André Sergio Perusso, born in Fortaleza, Brazil, Team Member of the S2BMRC.

30 March 2021 | Münsterland

Within the ARDENT project ("Advancing Rural Development through Entrepreneurship Education for Adults") the S2BMRC conducted interviews with five aspiring young entrepreneurs from Münster and its surroundings.

30 March 2021 | Münster

In November 2020, Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero, Judith Helmer, and Thuong Huynh from S2BMRC began working on the Erasmus+ funded project "Digital Innovation in the Service Sector", a collaborative project with six European partners

15 - 25 March 2021 | Münster

The winners of the "Concepts for Change Award" were selected at two events organised by the Marketing Club Münster/Osnabrück on 15.03. and 25.03.21.

A challenging year 2020 lies behind us. Companies have reacted to it in an agile and dynamic way, have proven their flexibility and creativity and have further developed their business models in the context of the pandemic.

12 March 2021 | Münster

Why is social entrepreneurship important? Why do we need more social businesses? How can we start a new business that brings positive social impacts? These are the questions that Change Lab 2021 aimed to answer.

11 March 2021 | Online

On the 11^th of March, Eva Sormani, research associate at the S2BMRC, engaged with the audience at the virtual eDOCation Conference and shared her experiences with nudging in academia and in industry.

8 March 2021 | Amsterdam, Münster, Maastricht

Today the degree of "Doctor of Philosophy, together with all rights, privileges and responsibilities thereto appertaining" was awarded to Alexander Lennart Schmidt, Team Member of the S2BMRC.

8 March 2021 | Münster

There could not be a more appropriate day to announce the launch of a new European project to increase the share of female graduate entrepreneurs. On International Women's Day 2021, the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, project coordinator of the WeRIn project, Women Entrepreneurs in Regional Inclusive Ecosystems, and their German partners - Wirtschaftsförderungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft Steinfurt (WESt mbH) and the Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities (ACEEU), announce their ambition to make entrepreneurship education and support programmes more inclusive. 

1 March 2021 | Bejing/Münster

S2BMRC is delighted to welcome A.-Prof. Dr. Liguang Liu to our S2BMRC. Mr. Liu is a visiting researcher from Beijing, China. He is an Associate Professor at the School of Government and serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Global Economy and Sustainable Development at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, China.

1 March 2021 | Münster

Michael Kortenbrede has graduated a Dual Course of Studies in completion of the degree of "Bachelor of Arts in Business" at FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences. For achieving a "Master in Communication-, Multichannel- and Business Management" (M.A.), he attended the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf.

No other institute may dare to take this step - to hire a physics engineer B.Sc. and materials scientist M.Sc. with economic knowledge from her industrial engineering studies into a business research field. We welcome Annika Wesbuer in our Team!

9 February 2021 | Münster

How are the digital competences of students changing and evolving due to the "pushed digitalization" in times of Covid-19? What are the new requirements and challenges for education, if these new competences are to be specifically trained? 

28 January 2021 | Online

How can we facilitate digital team-building in engaging way, particularly during the pandemic? Together with project leader Choiwai Maggie Chak, two Master students and seven Bachelor students from Strategic Marketing and International Marketing modules formed an initiative called The Lighthouse Project. The aim of this project is to develop and validate a new form of virtual workshop tool for team-building in community-academic health partnership (CAHP) projects.

28 January 2021 | Online

Jun. Prof. Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero and PhD Candidate Iulia Stroila, attended to the Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances Projects kick-off meeting held on the 28th of January 2021.

The main aims of the kick-off meeting were to get to know the EACEA team (Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency) and establish a fruitful cooperation between project representatives and the European Commission. Furthermore, participants had the opportunity to present their projects, network with other project representatives, and receive detailed information on project management, monitoring, and dissemination of Knowledge Alliance Projects.

25 January 2021 | Online

Entrepreneurship continues to be heavily male-dominated. Even though women have struggled in the past decade to break the "glass ceiling" and start their ventures or increase their participation in leadership positions, data suggests that the entrepreneurial potential of women is still untapped. A group of highly motivated students coordinated by Dr Sue Rossano and PhD Candidate Iulia Stroila have created a booklet to reveal interesting insights on female entrepreneurship and leadership.

19 January 2021 | Münster

In January, Dr Kerstin Kurzhals and Judith Helmer (S2BMRC) hosted an online workshop on "Interactive Teaching with Miro - Use Cases and Key Learnings from practice". This workshop was organised as a continuation and deepening of a Wandelwerk Workshop on "Collaborating online with digital whiteboards" one week earlier. Targeting educators at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, the workshop built on and extended the basic functionalities of Miro presented in the first workshop by showing use cases from teaching practice.

8 December 2020 | Münster

Münster is the city of bikes. But now, thanks to an FH Münster student project, it is also the city of cargo bikes!Remarkably coherent with the city's reputation, the Winter Semester 2020 at the FH Münster has seen the birth of a project that brings together master students from the "International Marketing & Sales" programme with a young and the ambitious Colombian & Norwegian cargo bike start-up "Bogbi".

2 December 2020 | Amsterdam

A global forum for university-industry cooperation champions - leaders, researchers, practitioners and business representatives operating at the intersection between academia and business was held to bring people with interest in this topic together. The workshop inspired by boundary spanning tools, frameworks and unique personal storiesfrom across the globe, by meeting peers and connecting with other champions driving university-industry interaction, technology transfer, entrepreneurship and innovation.

30 November 2020 | Münster

S2BMRC was honoured to host the kick-off meeting as the lead partner of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project "PIFS - Pioneering Innovative Food for Seniors". The PIFS project is an international collaborative effort of six European partners, including Münster University of Applied Sciences (Germany), University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), Ageing Social Lab (Spain), Momentum (Ireland), Lithuanian Innovation Centre (Lithuania), and European E-learning Institute (Denmark).

25 November 2020 | Online

Value & Future has been kicked-off with European partners from 6 countries. S2BMRC was represented by two delegates Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero and Eva Sormani.

13 - 29 November 2020 | Brazil, Chile, Germany, Colombia, England and the USA

Solving regional challenges of cities with an international perspective - that was the aim of "Moving the Cities 2020". 135 students from six countries worked together digitally for a week. How can we maintain the quality of life into old age? How can we improve the attractiveness of inner cities? What do we have to do to strengthen the innovative strength of business and science? Cities around the world face very similar challenges. To approach these with a global and entrepreneurial perspective - that was the aim of this year's first fully digital entrepreneurship week "Moving the Cities".

24. November 2020 | online

As part of the Case Studies International Sustainability & Ethics course from the International Marketing Specialisation Module, Claudia Umanzor invited guest speaker Natalia Tobón to present Kimberly-Clark's program "Toilets Change Lives".

Natalia has been part of the renowned multinational for over 14 years, starting as Brand Manager in Honduras and now as Marketing Manager in KC's headquarters in Bogotá for Intimate Care in the Latinamerican region.

17-19 November 2020 | online

From the 17^th to 19^th November the second peer-learning workshop on Female Entrepreneurship took place virtually. The workshop was hosted by the EY's InnovEYtion Hub on behalf of the European Commission where participants gathered to share knowledge, experience and ideas to advance European and national strategies for the support of women's entrepreneurship in Europe and beyond. Jun. Prof. Dr. Sue Rossano and PhD(c) Iulia Stroila were invited to take part to the workshop on behalf of S2BMRC and the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences. 

9 November 2020 | Germany

We are  honoured that our nudging initiative was awarded as one of Germany`s best "100 ideas for education, science and innovation" by the Stifterverband. We are looking forward to the upcoming months of interaction with the "Wirkung hoch 100" extended network. Nudging for innovation: How we are fuelling the Third Mission with gentle "nudging" (in German: Nudging for innovation: Wie wir mit sanften "Stupsern"die Dritte Mission befeuern) was selected as one of 100 funding projects from the more than 500 applications.

3 November 2020 | Münster

Iulia Stroila, team member of the S2BMRC, and alumni of the program International Marketing & Sales is amongst those honoured for their academic achievements at the year's 2020 "Hochschulpreis 2020", an event which awards prizes for outstanding final theses from all faculties of the FH Münster University of Applied Sciences. Stroila's master thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Baaken and Jun. Prof. Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero has been published by Springer Spektrum.  

1 November 2020 | Münster

Judith Helmer has graduated in "International Management for Service Industries (B.Sc.)" at the University of Applied Sciences Business and Information Technology School (BiTS) in Iserlohn, Germany. After that, she continued her studies in "International Marketing & Sales (M.A.)" at FH Münster and "International Economic Relations (M.Sc.) at Cracow University of Economics in Poland.

19 October 2020 | Münster

On the 19th of October 2020, the S2BMRC organised a rural consultation workshop in Hafenkäserei, Münster. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the economic and societal challenges of Münsterland, especially under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and identify opportunities to reboot and revitalise rural entrepreneurship. The workshop was organised in the context of a larger European project "Advancing Rural Development through Entrepreneurship Education for Adults" (ARDENT) co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union in which the FH Münster is the project lead. 

14 October 2020 | Amsterdam

The first issue of "Spanning boundaries" magazine is officially out. The magazine is one of the key outputs of the "Spanning Boundaries Development Project", which is funded through the European Commission's Knowledge Alliance program.

The magazine is the first of its kind devoted to the unique experiences of academics and practitioners who are pushing cognitive, cultural and institutional boundaries in order to explore novel and exciting opportunities, forge relationships and ultimately propel their respective institutions to greater success.

5 October 2020 | Amsterdam

Today the degree of "Doctor of Philosophy, together with all rights, privileges and responsibilities thereto appertaining" was awarded to Neele Petzold, Team Member of the S2BMRC.

In 2017, Neele Petzold received the Award of Excellence for the best Master Thesis of Münster School of Business. Consequently, she started her PhD - after experiencing the business world in the marketing department of a large corporation.

9 September 2020 | Amsterdam, Münster, Paris, Athens, Granada, Melbourne

Should we - as academics - be more entrepreneurial?

UIIN - the University-Industry-Innovation-Network - organised a webinar on the increasingly important topic. The Third Mission of Universities, Triple and Quadruple Helix, Next Generation HEIs, professional Knowledge Transfer, Commercialisation of Research, the Engaged University … all those newly raised discussion points point out into one direction: Entrepreneurial academics.

1 September 2020 | Sheffield & Münster

Eva Sormani - research associate at S2BMRC and PhD Candidate at FH Münster and VU Amsterdam -  and Katrin Uude - research associate at S2BMRC and PhD Candidate at FH Münster - contributed to the 12th International Social Innovation Research Conference, which was held for the first time as a digital conference. The conference brought together scholars from across the globe to discuss the theme "Social innovation and enterprise for more prosperous, fair and sustainable societies" from varied perspectives.

6 - 17 July 2020 | Münster

Every year, since 2016 the MSB has taken huge pride in offering students a unique learning opportunity through the International Summer School, led by PhD (c) Claudia Umanzor who like in its past two editions, made sure to deliver a non-precedent summer school.

"When lockdown shook us and tore our plans into bits, the immediate decision to go for a 100% online course was taken due to the commitment to our local and international students. We felt we owed it to them, especially to those who had already expressed their interest in taking part," says Claudia, who decided to take a risky approach by offering the same experience, via online streaming.

21 July 2020 | Münster

Nothing is as important as your own health. Especially in times of Corona, we all have this in mind again. But what is more valuable than your own health? Our children's health. What do parents do when their world suddenly comes to a standstill when their children are seriously ill? Everything is organized around it: In the centre is that the child gets the best medical care. Often parents travel from other cities to Münster with their sick children and do not know where they should stay overnight. For such situations, the Pelikanhaus - a temporary home - is about to be built at the Clemens Hospital, offering parents uncomplicated accommodation, even for a longer time.

16 June 2020 | Münster

After several weeks of exciting collaborative work "the boundary spanner's skill, knowledge, and experience assessment survey" is out. Spearheaded by the work package leader Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) of FH Münster and in close collaboration with the 9 consortium members drawn from 7 countries working across business, higher education, and civil society organization, the survey is now ready for distribution.

8 June 2020 | Münster

In a social-distancing and lockdown world, the first online University-Industry Interaction Conference took place from the past 8 to 11 June 2020. The conference, which is organised yearly in different locations, is an event where many generations from S2BMRC meet every year. This year, it offered insights on how to develop more engaged & entrepreneurial universities, and a system supporting student and academic entrepreneurship.

8 June 2020 | Münster

Following the Case Studies International, Sustainability & Ethics series of e-lectures from the International Marketing module, a new guest was invited into the virtual classroom, led by Jun. Prof. Dr Sue Rossano Rivero and PhD (c) Claudia Umanzor. This week's guest was Marcos Perez Gulin, founder of Galicia Sustentable, a non-profit organisation located in the in the autonomous community of Galicia, North-western Spain.

3 June 2020 | Amsterdam

Today the degree of "Doctor of Philosophy, together with all rights, privileges and responsibilities thereto appertaining" was awarded to Balzhan Orazbayeva, Team Member of the S2BMRC.

Balzhan joined the research Centre in 2015 for perusing an internship and writing her Master Thesis for Technical University of Dresden - supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Baaken - on the subject "Wissenstransfer in einem interkulturellen Team" (in German Language). Coming from Almaty in Kazakhstan she attend the Kazak German University to achieve the bachelor degree in International Relations.

25 May 2020 | Münster

This Summer Semester 2020, the "Case Studies International" lecture from the International Marketing module, led by Jun. Prof. Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero and PhD (c) Claudia Umanzor, has been chosen to pilot around Sustainability and Ethics in order to formally bring the important topic into the agenda.

The virtual class consisting of 27 students had the opportunity to have Bogbi's Co-founder Sigurd Kihl and Bogbi's main Investor Kristoffer Fernando Lærdal as guest speakers.

19 May 2020 | Münsterland

The last 20th of May, the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC), as a part of the international consortium of the "Advancing Rural Development through Entrepreneurship Education for Adults" (ARDENT) project from the European Commission, hosted an online meeting with actors from Münsterland interested in igniting the entrepreneurial spirit among citizens and integrating them into a process where they need to generate creative solutions to real-life challenges of rural communities. 

May 2020 | Emden/Leer

S2BMRC team member Alexander Lennart Schmidt was recently invited by Prof. Dorozalla from University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer to deliver a digital guest lecture on Disruptive Innovation. The objective was to discuss with the students about his research on disruptive innovation.

04. May 2020 | Münster

Within the framework of the münster.land.leben project, our Science to Society research line aims to provide academics as  actors of science/society cooperation with the tools to help them overcome common transfer barriers. These operative and strategic tools and methods are to be summarized in a toolbox and made available to academics who are doing science/society projects in the domain of health and well-being.

Our team has already presented a first prototype of the toolbox to the other sub-projects of the münster.land.leben project.

3 April 2020 | Amsterdam, Brussels, Granada, Hämeenlinna, Istanbul, Malaga, Münster, Navan-Meath, Paris, Tampere, Valencia

Corona is affecting cooperation project across Europe. Nevertheless consortia find their ways through the challenges of forbidden trips to meet face-to-face and physical transnational encounters using digital and virtual technologies.

3 March 2020 | Valencia

Therese Schedifka - research associate at S2BMRC and PhD candidate at FH Münster and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) contributed to the 14th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference in Valencia, Spain. She presented data from her PhD project at the conference which was hosted by IATED, the International Academy of Technology, Education and Development. More than 700 Experts from 80 countries displayed and discussed their work in oral, poster and interactive panels.

1 March 2020 | Münster

Since the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre was founded by Professor Baaken in 2002, he served as Managing Director. "In the beginning we started with 3 people, then gradually grew until we now have over 30 employees from 13 countries. On the way we had two relocations and many international projects. The institute currently has seven Adjunct Professors from Australia, Poland, the Netherlands and the UK."

3 February 2020 | Adelaide

Iulia Stroila - research associate at S2BMRC and PhD Candidate at FH Münster and The University of Adelaide contributed to the ongoing discussions within the ACERE community. Iulia presented the research proposal of her PhD project on the 16th ACERE conference cohosted by The University of South Australia in Adelaide (Australia). During the presentation sessions and the PhD consortium, she got the opportunity to discuss with leading experts in the entrepreneurship field and receive valuable feedback.

ACERE stands for Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, an annual conference in its 16^th year.  During the PhD Consortium of theACERE conference, which was held at the University of Adelaide, Iulia had the chance to pitch her PhD project.

3 February 2020 | Münster/Mondragon

María is developing her PhD in the field of University Business-Cooperation (UBC). The main objective of her PhD is to explore UBC's black box by identifying and analysing its determining factors from an SME perspective. This is the reason why she has  chosen and was invited by S2BMRC. The Center has vast experience in UBC related research and consulting since many years and conducted several studies in the field, e.g. for the European Commission.

María is a visiting researcher in the program of Erasmus+ "Academic Mobility" for 3 months (2 in spring 2020 and 1 in autumn 2020).

Having graduated in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering at Mondragon University (a Mondragon Corporation cooperative located in northern Spain), Maria stayed on to focus her studies on Innovation through the development of a Master's degree (MA) in Business Innovation and Project Management.

16 - 17 January 2020 | Amsterdam

The Boundary Spanners Development Programme aims to break down the engagement barriers between the universities and their regional/ national/ international business stakeholders by enabling the boundary spanning skills of the higher education faculty, staff, and leadership.

15 January 2020 | Amsterdam

Startup Village is a unique community spot on Amsterdam Science Park. Meeting rooms, workshop areas, flex-working spaces and event spaces create a very specific and creative atmosphere. Entrepreneurs love it …

It was launched in 2016 with just a very few containers to offer affordable space and a modern and scientific environment for new businesses. The encampment is built from refurbished sea containers and urban gardening prototypes; thus also meets the requirements of sustainability in many perspectives.

13 January 2020 | Münster

In the project the master students founded an university agency to support the S2B Marketing Research Centre with digital marketing. Led and lectured by Fatih Enzian, an expert in digital marketing, those students created social media channels, such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, connected to a newsletter and Google advertisement, and performed content marketing. Through the project, the students were encouraged to engage in practical marketing content.

10 January 2020 | Münster

Change Lab is an open-forum event run for-and-by students. It aims to create a shared co-learning platform for academics, external experts and students to spread ideas that create societal impacts and changes via short and powerful discussions.

Our first annual event, featuring the topic: "Is veganism the answer to climate change and animal welfare?", was successfully held on 10^th January, 2020 in the Fachhochschulzentrum FHZ, Münster.

2 January 2020 | Münster

The S2BMRC welcomes Katrin Uude M.A. as a new Team Member. 

Katrin completed a Bachelor degree (BA) in Social Sciences (Political Science, Sociology and Media- und Communication Science) at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and a second Bachelor degree (BA) in Design (Communication Design) at Münster School of Design (FH Münster, University of Applied Science in Münster).

18 December 2019 | Hamburg

As part of the semester project on Innovation Districts, Master students from the International Marketing and Sales program visited HafenCity, a visible example of place-based development in what used to be the old harbour of Hamburg by the Elbe river. The one-day study tour was organized by our S2BMRC semester project leaders: Claudia Umanzor and Habtamu Diriba; the outing consisted of understanding, observing and inquiring about networking and communication in an Innovation District.

12 December 2019 | Münster

Repairing the bicycle, feeding the dog, including shopping, borrowing umbrellas - such a service station is missing in Münster's city centre. To build on an unused area on Roggenmarkt was the idea of students in the Master International Marketing and Sales at the Münster School of Business and students with a focus on architecture at Gulf University Bahrain. The mobile space concept "Wonderwall" was the winning one among other four in the project "Moving the City", an international project conceived and led by Carsten Schröder and Prof. Dr Thorsten Kliewe.

12 December 2019 | Milan

We are proud to announce that the eLead Speed, a project in which the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre is consortium partner, was awarded the best Erasmus+ project in higher education from the Bulgarian National Agency for Erasmus+ projects.

5-7 December 2019 | Münster/Cracow

The Münster School of Business (MSB), FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences, has been working together with the Cracow University of Economics (UEK) for 30 years now. The two partner universities celebrated extensively the occasion of the anniversary.

5-6 December 2019 | Cracow

FH Münster continues to develop international cooperation and makes use of the opportunities offered by the Erasmus+ programme by engaging in an Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Strategic Partnerships project for the exchange of good practices.

1 December 2019 | Münster

The S2BMRC welcomes Therese Schedifka M.A. & M.Sc. as a new Team Member.

Her PhD Thesis deals with "Digital science communication of social sciences and humanities in Germany".

Therese received a Scholarship of the Graduate Program of Friedrich Ebert Foundation e.V.

27-28 November 2019 | Münster

S2BMRC of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and the Faculty members of SBI (Science-Business & Innovation) of VU have successfully launched its 14th joint PhD Workshop.

25 - 26 November 2019 | Berlin

Carina Alfert, Research associate and PhD candidate at S2BMRC, contributed with a working paper to the 2019 Effectuation Conference, hosted by the Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship of ESCP Europe in Berlin.

22 November 2019 | Münster

The S2B Centre's long experience on university-society engagement has now been transformed into a new methodology: The Higher Education Scenario Building Canvas. Dr Lina Landinez and Prof. Dr Thorsten Kliewe held the workshop "Creating positive pathways for societal engagement through scenarios, visualisation and storytelling" during the 2019 European Quality Assurance Forum in Berlin.

18 November 2019 | Münster 

Building on the strong relationships emerged during the Tomorrow's Land project, partners Advancis (Portugal), Bespoke (Denmark), Münster University of Applied Science (Germany), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Regenerus (UK) and Socialias Inovacijas Centrs (Latvia) continue their collaboration in Unravel Tomorrow, again supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

15 November 2019 | Münster

Iulia Stroila MA, team members of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, and master students of the program International Marketing & Sales, was awarded Best Master Student of the year 2019 in International Marketing & Sales.

14-15.11.2019 | Newcastle upon Tyne

Eva - research associate at S2BMRC and PhD Candidate at FH Münster and VU Amsterdam - presented a working paper on her research at the isbe 2019. She engaged in scientific discussion and engaged in conversations with practitioners such as entrepreneurs

11 November 2019 | Münster

The importance of university-business cooperation (UBC) continues to grow, whether this is in research (e.g. joint R&D or commercialisation) or education (e.g. student mobility, curriculum design and delivery of lifelong learning). The increasing efforts of university managers to improve UBC are hindered because a basic question has remained unanswered: what motivates academics to engage in UBC specific to education?

7 November 2019 | Münster/Ningbo

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre due to its uniqueness in the World is happy to host Dr. Wang Kai, Deputy Director of the "Research Center for Educational Administration and Policy" of Ningbo University, Ningbo China.

31 October 2019 | Münster

The Graduate Institute for Applied Research of the Universities of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia (GI NRW) was founded to promote doctorates. The GI NRW is a joint scientific institution of the 20 Universities of Applied Sciences in NRW.

29 October 2019 | Münster

Neele and Alexander were invited by the organizers of the Business Unusual Forum 2019 to facilitate a workshop on "How to manage disruptive change". Drawing on their scientific expertise, the two members of S2BMRC created a cognitive, temporal, and physical "Space to Play" for 30 participants from different industries.

22 October 2019 | Stockholm

Arno Meerman (UIIN and S2BMRC), Balzhan Orazbayeva (S2BMRC) and a/Prof. Todd Davey (IMT-BS and former S2BMRC) were invited to host the Future Universities Workshop at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, on the 22nd of October.

17 October 2019 | Bielefeld

Thomas Baaken served as a key note speaker at the German Federal Deans Conference. The conference on invitation was attended by some 60 deans from all over Germany. The Federal Deans' Conference (BundesDekaneKonferenz Wirtschaftswissenschaften) is an association of the departments and faculties of economics, management and business administration at Universities of Applied Sciences in the Federal Republic of Germany.

17 October 2019 | Munich

The Summer School in Higher Education Research and Science Studies (HERSS) is jointly organised by a consortium of higher education and research institutions in Germany. The 5th of the annual Summer School programme was hosted by the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), 14-18 October, 2019 with the attendance of 40+ participants, including guest professors, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, university research directors, and practitioners from across the world.

14 October 2019 | Groningen

On the 14^th of October, Eva Sormani and Iulia Stroila, both team members of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, were invited by Dr Silvia Costa, assistant professor at the University of Groningen, to visit the University of Groningen Centre of Entrepreneurship. The three researchers discussed insights from the workshop Experiments in Entrepreneurship.

Ijsselmeer | 11.-13.10.2019

Team spirit, drive and determination are core values that propel the members of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre. This year a team event was organised to face new wet challenges.

10 October 2019 | Münster/Singapore

A new book on "Developing Engaged and Entrepreneurial Universities - Theories, Concepts and Empirical Findings" has been published by Springer Nature Singapore. The editors, Prof. Dr Thorsten Kliewe, Prof. Dr Tobias Kesting, Prof. Dr Thomas Baaken, Prof. Dr Carolin Plewa are proud of being able to present new findings and reflections on a highly dynamic topic.

3 October 2019 | Brussels

Thomas Baaken served as a key note speaker at the EURASHE (European Association of Institutions in Higher Education) conference "Enhancing Work-based Learning and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education".

24-26 September 2019 | Matosinhos

Unravel Tomorrow is an Erasmus+ project aiming to explore and create a more inclusive, innovative and flourishing Tomorrow. The project is developed by an international consortium which aims to educate and connect social entrepreneurs and activists to become competent pioneers of change.

26 September 2019 | Münster

A delegation of the science-to-society research line from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre consisting of Dr Kerstin Kurzhals, Maggie Chak, Eva Sormani and Andreas Zilke contributed to the Forum Citizen Science in various ways.

20 September 2019 | Ahaus

Thanks to digitisation, we simply order and pay for goods from all over the world at the touch of a button. From fishing tackle to lemon squeezer - within a very short time the ordered goods find their way to us from the most remote corners of the earth. The Internet makes the world a digital village. Or is not it?

10 September 2019 | Cambridge

From the 1 of September until the 25 of October 2019, Neele Petzold is visiting the University of Cambridge as an official PhD visitor to collaborate with Prof. Shaz Ansari at the Judge Business School. The two collaborate on the topic of sensemaking in disruptive innovation, exploring how incumbents interpret and act on disruptive changes within their environment.

8-10 September 2019 | Odense

Habtamu Garomssa, Claudia Umanzor, and Alexander Lennart Schmidt, all team members of S2BMRC, contributed to the ongoing discussions within the CINet community. The three researchers presented their latest research results on the 20th International CINet conference at Southern Denmark University in Odense (Denmark). During the presentation sessions, Habtamu, Claudia and Alexander got the opportunity to discuss with leading experts in their fields and receive valuable feedback.

5 September 2019 | Essen

On 4 and 5 September, the Federal Minister for Education and Research organised a conference about "Research in the Future of Universities of Applied Sciences" in "Zeche Zollverein" in Essen. Selected speakers presented on key topics in the development of Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany.

1 September 2019 | Münster

The S2BMRC welcomes Hacer Tercanli, MA from Turkey as a new Team Member. Her PhD Thesis deals with "Understanding HEIs in Urban Sustainable Development: Modes, Drivers and Challenges", placed in a cooperative PhD-programme of FH Münster and University of Twente, NL.

5 August 2019 | Münster

The interactive workshop of the PhD student Neele Petzold and her fellow PhD student Alexander Schmidt, who want to develop new ideas and disruptive business models together with our participants, promises creative fun. Be part of the workshop and experience the experts of Design Thinking live at the Business Unusual Forum 2019 on 28 October 2019!

1 August 2019 | Münster

S2BMRC have conducted a project for PwC PriceWaterhouseCoopers to investigate start-ups in various "hubs" in Europe with regard to their assessment of these very locations. Which hubs are particularly good and successful and why.

12-22 July 2019 | Münster

Two bachelor students from the Behavioral, Management and Societal Sciences faculty of the University of Twente, Sam Althoff and Mike van den Heuvel, visited the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) for 10 days for an international research experience. 

15 July 2019 | Münster

Pia Töns is an apprentice in "Event Management" in her 3^rd year of apprenticeship at Münster University of Applied Sciences. She joined the S2BMRC Team to complete her professional training this year.

11 July 2019 | Münster

Our Germany-wide study "Managing Disruptive Change" (MaDiC) aimed to identify which management principles and capabilities are needed so that both established companies and start-ups can use the opportunities of disruptive innovations to be successful in the future.

26-28 June 2019 | Lisbon

28 and 29 June, Alexander Lennart Schmidt and Neele Petzold presented on the 19^th European Academy of Management Conference in Lisbon. The EURAM aims at advancing the academic discipline of management in Europe and annually invites members of 49 countries in Europe and beyond to debate over a variety of research management themes and traditions.

26 June 2019 | Münster

With a final time of 23:30, S2BMRC Team member Dr. Sue Rossano Rivero breaks her own record and finished 2nd in the 5km Leonardo Campus Run in females' category.

25 June 2019 | Münster

Change Lab is an open forum event based on student-driven interests. It is a shared co-learning platform for academics, external experts and students to spread ideas that create societal impacts and changes via short and powerful discussions. The goal of Change Lab is to create sparks between people from diverse backgrounds to jointly innovate for our society.

18-20 June 2019 | Helsinki

The 2019 UIIN University-Industry Interaction Conference held in Helsinki, brought together 400 delegates from all over the world including managers, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of entrepreneurial universities, collaborative innovation and university-business cooperation among others.

14 June 2019 | Münster

As part of the Social Design Thinking course led by Balzhan Orazbayeva, 14 students presented their ideas on Friday 14 June 2019. Also visiting were the three stakeholders bayti hier, DKMS and TechLabs, who each gave a social impact challenge to the students.

11 June 2019 | Münster/Amsterdam

Prof. Ingrid Wakkee PhD, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam), was awarded an "Adjunct International Scientific Fellowship" at Münster University of Applied Sciences' Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre.

11 June 2019 | Amsterdam

Neele Petzold travelled to Amsterdam on the 11 June to meet with researchers, educators, and entrepreneurs at the Amsterdam Venture Studios for an Entrepreneurship lunch organized by Ingrid Wakkee and Patricia van Hemert.

6 June 2019 | Münster

The researchers from our S2BMRC Team, Prof. Dr Thorsten Kliewe and Eva Sormani, MSc., were invited by Augenoptiker- und Optometristenverband NRW to give a presentation about nudging and its application in the field of marketing. The presentation, which took place at the Mövenpick Hotel Münster, was attended by 60 optometrists.

27-28 May 2019 | Enschede

The team of Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre with 4 paper presentations substantially contributed to the distinguished "High Technology Small Firms" Conference in the University of Twente, in The Netherlands.

23-25 May 2019 | Vilnius

On the invitation of the Rector of University of Bialystok Prof. dr hab. Robert W. Ciborowski and of the Conference Chair Prof. dr hab. Andrzej H. Jasiński, Prof. Dr. habil. Thomas Baaken held the keynote of the International Conference "Institutional Conditions for an Innovative Development of a Contemporary Economy", which was held from the 23 to the 25 May 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

24 May 2019 | Münster

Stina Siedhoff and Maria Paula Troutt Montes, team members of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, and master students of the program International Marketing & Sales, are amongst those honoured for their academic achievements at this year's "ausgezeichnet", event which honours the best students from each of the 14 faculties of Münster University of Applied Sciences.

24 May 2019 | Münster

The newspaper Westfälische Nachrichten reported on the Studies on "The State of European University Cooperation" of 2010/11 and 2017/18, which both have been conducted by the S2BMRC for the European Commission.

22 May 2019 | Ahaus

At Tobit.Campus a group of 16 international bachelor students experienced how digitalisation can be put into practice and how it is transforming our daily business life.

22 May 2019 | Münster/Medellín
 
The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre due to its uniqueness in the World received the visit of Jorge D'Alleman, Dean of the School of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) located in Medellín, Colombia.

17 May 2019 | Budapest

Balzhan Orazbayeva (S2BMRC in Münster) and a/Prof. Todd Davey (IMT Business School in Paris) the co-creators of The Future of Universities Thoughtbook and The Future of Universities Thoughtbook | Australian Edition were invited to host a workshop session on Designing the Future Universities at the 29^th Annual EURASHE Conference last week in Budapest

14-16 May 2019 | Liverpool

As part of Unravel Tomorrow, Erasmus + project, the international consortium including FH Münster (Germany), Regenerus (UK), Advancis (Portugal), Bespoke (Denmark), POLIMI (Italy) and SIC (Latvia) works to explore and create a more inclusive and innovative Tomorrow. The partners educate and connect social entrepreneurs and activists to become competent pioneers of change.

13-16 May 2019 | Münster

Innovation and entrepreneurship skills are key competencies in post-industrial societies. Consequently, students from all disciplinary areas need to learn how to think and act in an entrepreneurial and innovative way. Yet how to create a learning environment for entrepreneurship?

15 May 2019 | Münster/Krakow

The cooperation between the Münster School of Business (MSB) and the Cracow University of Economics in Poland in its 30th year is living. During the many years of partnership, the two Universities collaborate on several levels: Student and academic exchange, joint research applications, University-Business Cooperation (UBC) just to name some of the joint topics driven by this cooperation.

14 May 2019 | Münster

The S2BMRC - Team is proud to announce: Denise Becker, Team Assistant at the S2BMRC, successfully completed her further education programme as "Trainer Aptitude for Apprenticeship Education" for apprentices at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce North Westphalia. S2BMRC is now also capable to educate Apprenticeship Candidates and Trainees in the Centre.

10 May 2019 | Münster

The levels of university-business cooperation (UBC) in Southern Mediterranean Neighbourhood (SMN) could potentially be a fertile ground for more development and innovation in the region, yet its potential remains not fully harnessed.

1 May 2019 | Enschede

Organised by the University of Twente, 'Create Tomorrow' is the largest student thinktank in the world, and of course, a team of 6 S2BMRC members would not miss it. S2B shirts and Santa hats are the way how the team 'Santa's helpers' could be easily recognized.

17 April 2019 | Amsterdam

Eva Sormani was invited by Bètapartners to VU University Amsterdam to share her experience as an academic researcher in the field of science-to-society.

16 April 2019 | Münster

By taking a process view within a systematic literature review, the authors have integrated previous research on Disruptive Innovation into a process model.

11-13 April 2019 | Amsterdam

S2BMRC of Münster University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) and the Faculty of SBI (Science-Business & Innovation) of VU Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have successfully launched their traditional joint PhD Workshop, this time in its 13th version.

5 April 2019 | Münster

Münsterland is a rather rural region. This raises social challenges and questions, e.g. of how health care, participation and well-being can also be guaranteed in the future. These are aspects to which the FH Münster, together with more than 75 partners in the project "münster.land.leben" (münster.county.life) is dedicated.

2 April 2019 | Steinfurt

Under the philosophy Together we accomplish more! the female academic entrepreneurs at S2BMRC have developed a new concept on women entrepreneurship education - "Discover the entrepreneur in you".

2 April 2019 | Münster

Prof. Thorsten Kliewe was invited as an opening keynote speaker to the BVMW marketing conference about Nudging.  Together with Eva Sormani, he prepared a presentation with a strong scientific background to explain the two main questions: (1) What is nudging? (2) How can I use it?

26 March 2019 | Coventry

Prof. Thomas Baaken and Dr Sue Rossano from S2BMRC contributed substantially to the major two days Think Tank Event on "Transformational Entrepreneurship" of Coventry University (CU) in the UK.

19 March 2019 | Münster

S2B invites you to join the webinar University Business Cooperation (UCB): "How to get started and succeed" next 26 March 2019, as part of RIESAL (Red regional para el fomento de la Internacionalización de la Educación Superior en América Latina). The webinar will be led by Prof Dr Kliewe and Dr Landinez.

18 March 2019 | Sydney

Are universities set for a bleak future or are they about to take an even more central role in our societies? As the rate of change in our societies accelerates and technology is increasingly adopted, universities are set to be challenged like never before. Envisaging how the future of universities could unfold in the light of these challenges may seem like a difficult task, but it is a necessary one for universities to take charge.

20 February 2019 | Oslo

The "Women Entrepreneurs in STEM (WISE)", Erasmus+ funded project, had its transnational project meeting this 20th of February in Oslo, Norway where the S2BMRC of Münster University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) is one strategic partner.

13-15 March 2019 | Puebla

In the framework of the RIESAL project (Regional Network for the Promotion of the Internationalization of Higher Education in Latin America), hosted by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Prof. Thorsten Kliewe and Claudia Umanzor along with 118 participants from Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay (RIESAL partners) and also from Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay, gathered in Puebla, Mexico at the international conference "Capacities and Synergies for Internationalization in Latin America and the Caribbean".

7 March 2019 | Paris

Prof. Thomas Baaken, Managing Director of S2BMRC, and Arno Meerman, Director of Business Development of S2BMRC and CEO of UIIN Amsterdam, served as final judges in the 2019 Australian eChallenge France in Paris. 16 young and passion entrepreneurial teams managed to get through to the final pitch. The pitch and the following celebration of the winners were held close to the Louvre in Paris.

11- 13 February 2019 | Sydney

Held in Australia for the second time, the 2019 UIIN Asia-Pacific University-Industry Interaction Conference held at UTS, Sydney, brought together over 200 delegates from all over the world including managers, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of entrepreneurial universities, collaborative innovation and university-industry interaction among others.

12 February 2019 | Amsterdam

S2BMRC team member Neele Petzold was recently invited to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam by Dr. Malous Blankesteijn as a guest lecturer. The objective was to discuss with the students about her research on disruptive innovation and how a dynamic rather than a linear understanding of the process of disruptive innovation surfaces additional complexity.

4 February 2019 | Münster

Lina Landinez and Neele Petzold have published an article on disruptive innovation on InnovationManagement.se, one of the world's most read innovation Management blogs with more thousands of readers every month.

30 January 2019 | Münster

Apply for the International Summer School 2019 at the Münster School of Business: Borderless Minds - Co-creating a pathway into the 4th industrial revolution

25 January 2019 | Enschede

At the 2019 Change Management & Organizational Behaviour CMOB Research Carrousel at DesignLab, INFORM space, University of Twente, Enschede, S2BMRC team member Choiwai Maggie Chak, MSc delivered on her PhD Research Update and the Science-to-Society project Münster.Land.Leben: "Interactive dynamics in regional and local health community-academic partnerships: Impact of group climate on partner engagement and collaborative success"

25 January 2019 | Münster

As münster.land.leben is one of the largest projects at MUAS, students are taking part in the project work as well.  In the student project "Innovation for Society", three master students and eight bachelor students developed a lean canvas business model for the project "Fall management with civic engagement" from the Münster School of Health.

23 January 2019 | Münster

In winter semester 2018/2019 the bachelor students of our new lecture "Digital and Innovative Business Models" in Strategic and International Marketing learned about recent digital developments and technologies.

21 January 2019 | Guadalajara

We invite you to participate in a RIESAL webinar! The theme this time is: "Results of the 1st Regional Survey on trends in the internationalization of higher education carried out by the OBIRET UNESCO-IESALC"

18 January 2019 | Münster

Our project MaDiC - Managing Disruptive Change - Innovative business models for managing disruptive changes in small and medium-sized enterprises is featured as January's research project on the website of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).

14 January 2018 | Münster

S2BMRC is delighted to welcome Ms Mona Elrawi to our S2B office. Ms. Elrawi is a visiting researcher and an expert in Horizon 2020 funding opportunities, coming from Egypt. She will be staying with us from 14.01.2019 to 01.02.2019. Her visit has been supported by the European Commission under Horizon 2020 project that our Center is participating in, titled Quintuple Helix Approach to Targeted Open Innovation in Energy, Water, Agriculture in the South Mediterranean Neighborhood

8 January 2019 | Münster

Inspired by the TV show "Dragons Den" and developed by Prof. Dr. Kliewe, Dr. Lina Landinez and Luiza Leorato, Battling the Dragons is an annual final presentation of innovative ideas conceived by students from Münster School of Business.

17 December 2018 | Münster

On January 8 2019, we will introduce you to founders who have already gone this way or who are about to start. The highlight of the day is the final "Battling the Dragons" - here students from the Münster School of Business (MSB) present their innovative ideas to a selected jury.

7 December 2018 | Münster

From the 3^rd to the 7^th of December 2018, 12 students from Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie (UEK) visited MSB to work on a joint project referring to "Student-community engagement"

23 November 2018 | Guadalajara

The project RIESAL in co-financing with the European Commission, will be offering in November two webinars related to internationalisation:

22 November 2018 | Münster

On the past 13 November 2018, the Cross-Mentoring event took place in Münster on the topic "Breaking the rules as an innovation method". The cross-mentoring programme is aimed at the development of managers in the Münsterland region.

9 November 2018 | Münster

On November 9^th the official Graduation Ceremony of Münster School of Business took place. Some 1.000 guests from families and companies attended the lively and solemn gala. The S2BMRC was multi honourably mentioned during the celebration.

18-19 October 2018 | Münster

S2BMRC was honored to host an international Tomorrow's Land consortium for a kick-off meeting as part of the new follow-up Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project "Unravel Tomorrow". This project is an intentional action by six European partners to design the future of social innovation.

12 October 2018 | Münster

New Book available: 40 HEI Experts in Europe provided their thoughts, visions and ideas on the Future of Universities. This compendium of the future, collecting visionary and creative views, has been launched by UIIN (Spin Off of the S2BMRC) in Amsterdam and S2BMRC in Münster. How are trends affecting Universities? Interesting reads! Editors are Todd Davey, Arno Meerman, Balzhan Orazbayeva (all S2BMRC and UIIN), Victoria Galán-Muros, Carolin Plewa (both S2BMRC adjunct and alumni) together with two Siemens Managers, Max Riedel and Natascha Eckert.

October 10 2018 | Leitrim, Ireland

The "Women Entrepreneurs in STEM (WISE)", Erasmus+ funded project, had its transnational project meeting 10^th of October in Leitrim, Ireland where the S2BMRC of Münster University of Applied Sciences is one of the strategic partners.

10 October 2018 | Münster

S2BMRC is happy to welcome Dr Olfa Ben Said to our S2BMRC office. Dr Said is a guest researcher from Tunisia who will be staying for one month as part of a Horizon 2020 project 5 TOI 4WAS which encourages the research and innovation cooperation between the European Union and Southern Mediterranean Neighborhood in the areas of water, agriculture and energy.

8-9 October 2018 | Münster

The past 8 and 9 of October S2BMRC received 14 Latin American delegates from the RIESAL project, who in the framework of one of their missions to Europe, came to Münster to learn about how the knowledge transfer is carried out, and how innovation and entrepreneurship take place in the city.

1 October 2018 | Münster

We are happy to announce the two most recent additions to our international team: Habtamu Diriba MBA and Adisa Ejubovic MSc.

1 October 2018 | Münster

Throughout the project, since 2016 Tomorrow's Land creates resources to support educators who are training young social innovators, the people working to develop practical new solutions to social challenges. The project will be closed by an Tomorrow's Land International Conference taking place on the 22nd of November 2018 in Liverpool, UK.

28 September 2018 | Dresden

Dr. Haluk Yörür successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Market Oriented Product Platforms Structuring the Front-End of Flexible Platform Portfolio Development" at TU Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics.

28 September 2018 | Münster

On September 26th to the 28th, Dr. David Blanco and Sebastián Tolvett M.Sc. from the Metropolitan Technological University (UTEM) in Chile visited the technology and innovation assets of Münster University of Applied Sciences (MUAS)

14 September 2018 | Münster

On Friday, 14^th September, a group of 25 managers from the IT management consultancy noventum came together to meet Neele Petzold, Alexander Schmidt and Patrick Schröder from the Science-to-Business team, who offered them a workshop with a twofold objective.

12 September 2018 | Amsterdam

S2BMRC team member Sue Rossano Rivero successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Entrepreneurial behaviour of academics within the context of education from a sociological perspective" at VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

11 September 2018 | Dublin

Alexander Schmidt and Carina Alfert presented their latest research note at the 19th International CiNet Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

3 September 2018 | Münster

The S2BMRC is glad to welcome Dr Kerstin Kurzhals and Claudia Umanzor as new members of the team. Sue Rossano returns after her maternity leave.

30 August 2018 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre elaborated a study on University-Business Cooperation in Europe for the European Commission. The study was conducted in 33 countries and proves an untapped potential for employability, innovation and regional development in Europe.

30 August 2018 | Münster

During the past two weeks, Carlos Abello and Claudio Torres from the Technology Transfer Office of Universidad Santiago de Chile visited Münster University of Applied Sciences and the S2BMRC. This visit is part of the Professional Development Program, a program offered by MUAS to universities interested in developing their entrepreneurial and innovative profile.

13 August 2018 | Münster

The last 27th of June, the S2BMRC hosted the first meeting with regional stakeholders interested in the topic of Women Entrepreneurship in STEM, as a part of a project from the European Commission.

30 July 2018 | Münster

From the 9th to the 16th of July the International Summer School 2018 took place at the Münster School of Business. 44 students from Germany, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, India and South Africa participated to develop solutions for sustainability and social entrepreneurship challenges.

26 July 2018 | Padang

Eva Sormani, MSc, from the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre was awarded the "Best Presentation Award" out of >60 paper presentations at a conference in Padang, Indonesia

26 July 2018 | Padang (24-26 July 2018)

With more than 300 participants from 12 countries of Asia, Europe and Africa, the conference in Padang offered a platform for scientists and practitioners to share ideas and knowledge.

18 July 2018 | Münster

RIESAL thank all those interested in this second version of the online course PEGIES (Improvement in Management of Internationalization in Higher Education). Münster University of Applied Sciences will be offering one of the modules of the course.

17 July 2018 | Münster

Under the obscure name "Dry Cake Day" all Science-to-Business team members had been invited to the first internal workshop which was dedicated to using all the knowledge and creativity within the team to build tangible results to aid us in our work.

24 June 2017 | Matosinhos (11.-15.06.2018)

As part of the Tomorrow's Land project, the final intellectual output was delivered as a Social Innovation Bootcamp, an international blended learning activity where people from all over Europe and different educational backgrounds came together to work on current and urgent social challenges.

22 June 2018 | London

2BMRC Team members Eva Sormani (corresponding author) and Thomas Baaken presented a paper on "The Potential of Nudging for the Engaged University" on the UIIN University-Industry-Innovation-Network Conference in London.

22 June 2018 | London

Being the biggest event so far, the UIIN conference brought together more than 500 delegates from 60+ countries in London to inspire, share practices and gain insights about the university-business cooperation and engaged universities.

20 June 2018 | Münster

Minister Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister for Culture and Sciences Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia, visited Münster University of Applied Sciences to inform herself on the performance level and areas of the University.

20 June 2018 | Münster

The Science-to-Business Marketing Running Team participated a at this year's Leonardo Campus Run with Sue Rossano finishing as the best female runner in her category.

30 May 2018 | Münster

We will be hosting a meeting with regional stakeholders and partners interested in the topic of Women Entrepreneurship in STEM.

30 May 2018 | Münster

S2BMRC is happy to announce the second edition of the online course "Improving Management of the Internationalisation of Higher Education".

28 May 2018 | Münster

In the summer semester 2018, international students of the bachelor courses "International Marketing" and "Strategic Marketing" successfully attended the TOPSIM-Startup challenge supervised by Dr. Christian Junker.

23 May 2018 | Münster

The annual spring conference of the European Campus Card Conference in Prague was supported by the presentation of Dr. Christian Junker

22 May 2018 | Münster

This semester as part of the course of Innovation Marketing and Management, international Bachelor Students at MSB have been challenged by their lecturer, Balzhan Orazbayeva, with a task to address their own student-life related needs through innovative business ideas.

16 April 2018 | Münster

Join us online for a Massive Open Online Course and become a pioneer of Tomorrow´s Land. The pilot edition of the Tomorrow´s Land MOOC is open for registration from Monday, 2nd April 2018.