Welcome to CEIT

Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation

About Us

In times of economic upheaval, it is important to develop new business fields through innovation, business creation and start-ups, but also to ensure economic sustainability of traditionally successful companies and institutions. Overall economic challenges such as crisis management, transformation of the energy system, digital transformation or the increasing number of new businesses are regionally reflected in many different ways.

The Faculty of Management and Economics of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum established the CEIT to develop future perspectives in a regionally networked manner and to unite those who are interested in the topics of entrepreneurship, innovation and transformation. The CEIT, with its combination of management and economic expertise, intends to serve as a connecting element and catalyst for economically profound projects in research and practice.

Current News

Study participants wanted on the benefits of makerspaces

March 15, 2023

Santander Projects

Ideenwettbewerb - Mit Gründungsidee in die USA reisen

March 8, 2023

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bröring as a guest at Planet Wissen

February 22, 2023

Projekte in Wissenschaft und Praxis - Sommersemester 2023

February 17, 2023

New study on actors in innovation systems

February 7, 2023

Research article on selection criteria of sustainability-oriented technologies

January 26, 2023

Contribution to lecture series

January 19, 2023

Spring School "Digitalisierung und Entrepreneurship" - Anmeldefrist bis zum 1. Februar verlängert

January 16, 2023

Our working areas

The CEIT’s fields of activity are defined by the following functions:

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Basic function

The CEIT conducts research in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and transformation and initiates projects in cooperation with other members of the faculty.

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Initiator function

The CEIT makes it easier for students, graduates and researchers to take the step into founding a company.

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Transfer function

The CEIT designs teaching and advanced training courses in its subject areas and establishes networks with political and economic actors

for mutual knowledge transfer.

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Transformation function

The CEIT accompanies entrepreneurs and companies throughout the entire life cycle in order to increase resilience of different operational functions (sales, financing, risk management, etc.).

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Catalytic function

The CEIT defines itself as a catalyst for the pooling of competences for research-focused innovative projects and initiates inter- and transdisciplinary projects at the RUB and within the University Alliance Ruhr. Furthermore, it supports the identification of projects with a potential for commercialisation and spin-offs.

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Guide function

The CEIT informs people inside and outside the university about activities at the RUB in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation and transformation and, if necessary, refers them to other contact persons. For this purpose, a signpost has been set up on the website.

Professors of CEIT

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bröring

is head of the Chair for Entrepreneurship and innovative Business Models at the Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation of the Faculty of Management and Economics since 2022.

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Teaching focus

Business model innovations
Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition
Technology dynamics and transformation

I enjoy being a professor at the faculty because....

Prof. Dr. Torsten Schmidt

ist seit 2019 außerplanmäßiger Professor an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum und Leiter des Kompetenzbereichs Wachstum, Konjunktur, Öffentliche Finanzen am RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in Essen.

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Er studierte Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Göttingen und wurde an der Universität Zürich promoviert. Seit 2000 ist er am RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung tätig. In seinen Forschungsarbeiten analysiert er empirische und wirtschaftspolitisch relevante Fragestellungen aus den Bereichen der Konjunkturanalyse und -prognose, der mittelfristigen Wirtschaftsentwicklung sowie des demografischen Wandels.

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I enjoy being a professor at the faculty because....

…hier die wirtschaftspolitische Relevanz sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Lehre eine große Rolle spielt. So kann ich meine Erfahrungen als Konjunktur-Chef des RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung unmittelbar einbringen.

Prof. Dr. Nicola Werbeck

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I enjoy being a professor at the faculty because....

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Werners

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I enjoy being a professor at the faculty because....

Prof. Dr. Uta Wilkens

geb. 1967, ist seit 2005 Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls Arbeit, Personal und Führung und Geschäftsführende Leiterin des Instituts für Arbeitswissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt in der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

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Vita: Studium der BWL und Wirtschaftspädagogik an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und der FU Berlin mit Abschluss Dipl.-Kffr. (1992) und Dipl.-Hdl. (1994); Promotion (1998) und Habilitation (2004) jeweils an der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft an der TU Chemnitz mit Forschungsaufenthalten in Washington D.C. und am MIT Boston (1996) sowie JAIST in Japan (2000). 2004 Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine BWL, insbes. Personalmanagement und Organisation an der wissenschaftlichen Hochschule Lahr (WHL); seit Ende 2005 Lehrstuhlinhaberin an der RUB. Zwischen 2008 und 2015 auch Prorektorin für Lehre und in 2018 Gastprofessorin an der University of Colorado, Boulder. Ausgehend von konkreten Veränderungen der Arbeitswelt beschäftigt sich Uta Wilken in Ihrer Forschung mit der Frage, was Organisationen in volatilen Umwelten adaptionsfähig macht und mit welchen Kompetenzen Individuen diese Veränderungsprozesse bewältigen und selbstbestimmt gestalten können. Dabei steht der digitale Wandel im Zentrum des Interesses. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Integration von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in Arbeitsprozesse.

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I enjoy being a professor at the faculty because....

…ich hier Menschen in ihrem Entwicklungsprozess begleiten und dabei Anregungen geben kann, immer auch über den Tellerrand hinaus zu blicken. Es gibt so viel zu entdecken.

Students & Entrepreneurs

Certificate in Entrepreneurship

for Bachelorstudents

The certificate is an offer of the Ruhr-Universität within the framework of undergraduate teaching. It is an additional qualification within the regular studies, the special framework conditions for the optional area are noted on the page.

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Micro Degree:
Innovation & Entrepreneurship

for Masterstudents

With the Micro Degree, students in the Master's program can expand their competencies in the area of entrepreneurship/entrepreneurial thinking and action and also receive a certificate of achievement upon successful completion.

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Matchmaking

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Mehr zu folgenden Themen: Informationen für alle Studiengänge, Anerkennungen und Einstufungen, Bachelor M&E (1-Fach-Bachelor), Bachelor Wirtschaftswissenschaft (2-Fach-Bachelor BWL/VWL), Masterstudiengänge

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For Students

Teaching Offers

Vorlesung

2 contact hours

Übung

2 contact hours

Seminar

2 contact hours

Seminar

2 contact hours

SoSe, WiSe

Seminar

2 contact hours

SS, WS

Seminar

6 contact hours

SoSe 2023

For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship

The Faculty of Business and Economics has set itself the goal of being the central economic entrepreneurship competence on campus and in the region. To promote the start-up culture, we offer – also in cooperation with various faculties of the RUB, the Worldfactory and other partners from science and industry – numerous teaching and further education programmes, advisory and networking opportunities.

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Educational offers on the topic

Fit für die Gründung

Joint workshop of the Faculty of Economics and the engineering faculties of the RUB for doctoral students. The focus of this event is on the topic of start-ups. The founding team “PHYSEC” got to know each other during this event.

Dr. Andreas Bonse, Dr. Fabian Schmitz, Dr. Anna Talmann, Prof. Dr. Nicola Werbeck

Mentoring Start-Up.TransferNRW

Content-related support and coaching of the founders, especially with regard to organisational and strategic aspects as well as with regard to the development and expansion of their network. Provision of resources; for example in the form of premises, software, equipment or access to students as assistants, interns or for project-related collaboration in the form of theses.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Weiß

Mentoring Program des WORLDFACTORY Start-up Center

Mentoring promotes the exchange of knowledge and experience, it steers thinking in new directions and supports networks.” This is how the WORLDFACTORY START-up Center advertises its mentoring programme on its website. Following this motto, we are currently supporting the young start-up Dormciety as part of the WSC’s mentoring programme, which emerged from the faculty’s own entrepreneurship activities to create networks and thus enable the founding team to follow new paths for successful further development.

Lea Decker, Prof. Dr. Nicola Werbeck

Santander Entrepreneurial Idea Competition

“The “Entrepreneurial Idea Competition” is aimed at RUB students (Bachelor, Master, PhD) with innovative ideas from science and research. “Whether flyer, poster or idea sketch, there are no limits to your imagination. set. Send us a meaningful presentation of your founding idea and win 1,500 euros! In addition, you will be given the opportunity to give your best in a creative video pitch within 2-3 minutes. all out in a creative video pitch. Send us an appealing video and use the opportunity to opportunity to prove that your idea should be promoted!”

Lea Decker, Prof. Dr. Michael Roos, Nicholas Schmidt, Dr. Fabian Schmitz, Dr. Anna Talmann, Prof. Dr. Nicola Werbeck

Researchers & Research Institutions

Research projects

Collaborative Project

Project Y

The Human Side of Digitizing the Innovation Process - Completed

Single Project

Clarisa: Climate-Related Risk Assessment & Scenario Analysis - EN

bottom-up.city - Start-up Transfer.NRW

Publications

Jahn, V., & Steinhardt, M. (2023). Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-experimental Setting in Germany. International Migration Review.

Appio, F. P., Bröring, S., Sick, N., Lee, S., & Mora, L. (2023). Editorial Deciphering Convergence: Novel Insights and Future Ideas on Science, Technology, and Industry Convergence. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 70(4), 1389-1401.

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Degen, Lukas, Göbel, Julian, Minder, Karen, Seifried-Dübon, Tanja, Werners, Brigitte, Grot, Matthias, Rind, Esther, Piper, Claudia, Eilerts, Anna-Lisa, Schröder, Verna, Siegel, Achim, Hüsing, Anika, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Rieger, Monika A., IMPROVEjob Research Cooperation, Weltermann, Birgitta M.: Leadership program with skills training for general practitioners was highly accepted without improving job satisfaction: the cluster randomized IMPROVEjob study, in: Scientific Reports, 2022, 12:17869.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22357-z

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Grot, Matthias, Kugai, Simon, Degen, Lukas, Wiemer, Isabel, Werners, Brigitte, Weltermann, Birgitta M.: Small Changes in Patient Arrival and Consultation Times Have Large Effects on Patients Waiting Times: Simulation Analyses for Primary Care, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2023, 20, 1767.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20031767

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Moretti, D.M., Baum, C.M., Ehlers, M.-H., Finger, R., & Bröring, S. (2023). Exploring actors' perceptions of the precision agriculture innovation system – A Group Concept Mapping approach in Germany and Switzerland. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 122270.

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Block, C., Rennings, M., & Bröring, S. (2022). Selecting technologies to engage in sustainability transitions—A multi-stakeholder perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment, 1-27. (Early Access)

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