DFG Research Training Group DPE // Newsletter 2025-1

Last week, we had the pleasure to welcome Uni Passau Alumna Madeleine Bausch from the University of Chile for an interesting talk on “Digital Platform Internationalization: An Emerging Markets Perspective”. 

We are especially proud that Nestor Duch-Brown, scientific officer and team leader at the Digital Economy Unit of the Joint Research Centre (European Commission), enriched our DPE seminar with a talk on “Evidence based policy making? The role of the JRC and the EU digital strategy”. 

Our guest scholar visits

We are thrilled to welcome many top scholars to Passau this summer term. We cordially invite everyone interested to the following guest lectures (Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 16, room 006) 

• Thursday, July 10, 4 pm: Prof. Dr. Florian Töpfl - Professor of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region (University of Passau); Topic: The Kremlin’s Digital Propaganda: At Home and Abroad
• Thursday, July 17, 4 pm: Prof. Dr. Frank Piller - Head of Chair of the Institute for Technology & Innovation Management (RWTH Aachen Business School); Topic: Let them guide, but not decide! Platform Governance Power Asymmetry and Complementor Participation
• Thursday, July 24, 4 pm:  Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kesler - Assistant Professor of Economics (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf); Topic: tbc

Our current cohort and new hires

We also thrilled to announce soon two new additions to the team under the primary supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm and Prof. Dr. Andreas König. 

You can find more about some of our doctoral students in our video series #hiddentalents: https://www.dpe.uni-passau.de/en/projects/hidden-talents

We are very proud to announce two brandnew publications of DPE members: 

• Schumann, J. H., Zimmermann, J., Steinhoff, L., Totzek, D., van der Borgh, M., & Martin, K. D. (2025). Toward a multilayered framework of privacy-related decision-making in B2B. Journal of Business Research, 190, 115243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115243 
• Schuett, F., & Wipusanawan, C. (2025). Essentiality checks for standard essential patents. Management Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.04292 

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