Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer
About
Thomas Schildhauer has been managing director of the Zentralinstitut für Weiterbildung (ZIW) (Central Institute for Continuing Education) since 2007. The ZIW bundles the continuing education offerings of the UdK Berlin under the aegis of the UdK Berlin Career College. As a computer scientist, marketing expert and internet researcher, he brings extensive expertise to the Weizenbaum Institute. In 1999, Thomas Schildhauer founded the largest affiliated institute of the UdK, the Institute of Electronic Business (IEB), and has been its director ever since.
In his position as managing director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Thomas Schildhauer conducts transdisciplinary research on the topic of Internet-enabled innovation. Since 2013, he has also chaired the Rat der Internetweisen, an expert group of Internet specialists who serve the IEB as a scholarly advisory body. In 2014 Thomas Schildhauer was appointed a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Since 2017 he has been Principal Investigator at the Einstein Center Digital Future.
Positions
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Associate Principal Investigator (PI) since 15 September 2022, Research Group: Reorganisation of Knowledge Practices
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Principal Investigator (PI) until 14 September 2022, Research Groups: Data-Driven Business Model Innovations and Inequality and Digital Sovereignty
Contact
Memberships
- Board of the Foundation. Internet and Society ("Internet und Gesellschaft")
- Advisory board. Skubch&Company GmbH
- Advisory board. Neuem GmbH
- Advisory board. EDUMode Software GmbH
- Supervisory Board. equeo GmbH
- Supervisory Board. Bluechip Computer AG
- Supervisory Board. cbe AG
- Supervisory Board. Stone One AG
- Member. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Member Research board for Industry 4.0. Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt
- Co-Spokesperson Interdisciplinary Research Group for Science Communication. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Fields of Research
Thomas Schildhauer conducts research:
- Digital Business Innovation
- Internet Enabled Innovation
- Entrepreneurship Forschung
- Digital Marketing/Social Media
- Social Collaboration/Enterprise 2.0
- Crowdsourcing/Open Innovation
More Projects
Selection
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2014 – 2017: dwerft – Verbundprojekt 4 und 5 (BMBF): 4: Distributionstechnologien; Nutzerseitige Impulse zur Entwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen, 5: Zukunftsforschung und Wissenstransfer; Erforschung zukünftiger sozialer und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklungen im A/V-Wirtschaftszweig
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2014 – 2017: DigiMediaL – Digitalisierung der Musikwirtschaft (EFRE): Profilbildung für Musik, Schauspiel & Bühne:
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2009-2013: HELD – Innovationsdramaturgie nach dem Heldenprinzip (BMBF)
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2007-2009: Intelligente Objekte im wirtschaftlichen und privaten Alltag: Stand der Forschung – Chancen für Deutschland (BMBF/acatech)
Committees and functions
- Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), department of Electronic Business with a focus on marketing
- Managing Director of the Central Institute for Continuing Education at the Berlin University of the Arts
- Director of the Institute of Electronic Business at the Berlin University of the Arts
- Research director at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
- Principal Investigator at Einstein Center Digital Future
Publications
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