Entrepreneurship and innovative Business Models
About us
Innovations often arise at the interface between different fields of knowledge and technology, enabling novel business models and challenging existing industry structures. This creates special opportunities for start-ups, while established companies face complex change processes.
At the Chair for Entrepreneurship and innovative Business Models, we show how fields of knowledge converge and how transformation processes initiated at different levels can be successful. Our research ranges
- from the emergence of new technology and innovation ecosystems,
- to the further development of established companies and the implementation of business model innovations,
- to the identification and perception of entrepreneurial opportunities by founders and managers.
In our work, we use a broad spectrum of quantitative and content analysis methods to analyze business management issues in various fields of application.
We stand for a close integration of theory and practice in research and teaching.
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Further information on bachelor and master theses are here.
Please contact Lev Kalishchuk (lev.kalishchuk@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) if you are interested in writing your bachelor or master theses with us or have any further questions.
In general, there are two different types of credit recognition:
- If you take a module at a foreign university that is equivalent to one of the modules offered by our chair in terms of content and requirements, you can have it credited as the corresponding RUB module.
- If you take an economics module at a foreign university for which there is no equivalent module at our chair in terms of content and requirements, you can have it credited as a so-called “dummy” module (“(Advanced) Applied Management/Economics”).
Basically, our chair will determine in which form we can credit your module. Students who need credit for a module taken at another university or department for a subject offered by the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Business Models, please contact Ms. Silvia Oleksakova: silvia.oleksakova@ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Please note that requests submitted on or before the 20th of a month will be processed by the end of that same month. Requests submitted after the 20th will be handled in the following month.
In order to be able to provide information about the credit, the following information is required:
- Your RUB degree (Bachelor, Master, etc.)
- Your exchange type (Erasmus, change of university, etc.)
- Completed application for recognition, available at the examination office
In order to assess the content and level of the non-RUB module, we need the following information about the non-RUB module:
- Name of the module
- ECTS or credits
- Contact/teaching hours (“semester hours per week”)
- Study program to which the module belongs
- Syllabus
- Literature
- WWW link of the module
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Publications
Baaden, P., Bröring, S., Rennings, M., & Shapira, P. (2026). Researcher positions and the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields–The case of synthetic biology. Research Policy, 55(3), 105395.
Rennings, M., Plantec, Q., Waßenhoven, A., Sternberger, C., Lai, M. Y., & Bröring, S. (2026). How do incumbents use AI technologies to strategically renew their innovation portfolios?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 227, 124640.
Bröring, S., Waßenhoven, A., Berg, S. & Rennings, M. (2026). Monitoring path dependence in multi-technological organizations. World Patent Information, 85, 102455.
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