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Sally Boyani Mokaya moved from Kenya to Passau to take up a position at the DFG Research Training Group ‘Digital Platform Ecosystems’. With video portrait

We are happy to welcome Ben Evans at the DPE! On Thursday, 23rd January, he will be giving a talk on “Cloud Portability and Interoperability under the EU Data Act: Dynamism versus Equivalence”.

We are thrilled to send you an invitation to this week’s DPE Seminar, which will be a Zoom presentation by Kai Schäffner, a Proven Consultant in Market Entry, Digital Transformation, Innovation & Strategy; CEO at Tangram…

We are very excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pidun at the DPE! On Thursday 19th December, he will be giving a talk on “Why do most business ecosystems fail?”.

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Saeed Khanagha at the DPE! On Thursday 28, he will be giving a talk on “Framing Strategies for Nascent Platforms: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective”

Professors Jan Krämer and Michael Grimm, both PIs of the Research Training Group, traded lectures for beats at this year’s ‘Profs at Turntables’ event.  

We are beyond proud to share that our Post-Doc, Johanna Zimmermann, has been awarded the "Kulturpreis Bayern 2024" in the category of Science! 

Johanna received this prestigious honor for her innovative doctoral thesis.…

Our Research Fellow Dr. Georg Reischauer will be giving a talk on “Incumbent Adoption of Platform Business Models in B2B Industries” on Thursday, 14th November. 

This week we will hear inspiring stories and receive valuable advice from Jan Krämer, Carolin Häussler, Thomas Widjaja, Jan H. Schumann and Michael Grimm. The 'Career in Academia' panel brings together some of our DPE…

We’re very much looking forward to the visit of Dr. Mark Wickham, who will be in Passau from October 22 to 25.

We are excited to announce that DPE Mercator Fellow Prof. Dr. Jens Prüfer offers a course titled "Economic Governance and Institutional Design" during his stay at the DPE in October.

The whole team of the DPE spent time together in the Bavarian Forest at our yearly Offsite.

We will have the pleasure to host Dr. Manuel Hoffmann from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg as our first guest of the semester for a whole week. On September 26, 4 pm, he is going to present his paper on…

It is our great pleasure to welcome our Mercator Fellow Prof. Dr. Philip Leifeld for a 10-week research stay at the DPE - on July 4th he will give a research talk on the "Analysis of Complex Social Systems" as part of…

World-leading researchers in the field of management science met at the University of Passau to discuss the role of strategic leadership in the digital economy.

We will have the pleasure to host Prof. Dr. Lucas Stich from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. On 20th June he will give a research talk on Product Badges and Consumer Choice on Digital Platforms.

We are thrilled to host Dr. Julian Wichmann from Tilburg University. On 20th June he will give a research talk on Does it pay to be active on social media? The antecedents and consequences of researchers’ social media…

The DFG Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems" brought together researchers from all over the world in Passau to discuss the power of digital platforms. The focus was on the possibilities of regulation and…

We are thrilled to announce the incredible success of the first-ever DPE Forum, held from June 4th to 5th 2024, in the picturesque town of Passau! Under the engaging motto “Bytes and Behemoths: Understanding Power in…

With great pleasure we welcome our Mercator Fellow Prof. Kelly D. Martin for an extended research visit at the DPE. On 23rd May Prof. Martin will give a research talk on “Customer Data Stewardship”.

We are delightes to have Dr. Annalí Casanueva Artís from the ifo Institute Munich with us for a joint Research Talk wit the Research Seminar in Econmics. On 22nd May she will give a research talk on Can chants in the…

We are very happy to host Rafael Greminger from the UCL School of Management. On 16th May he will give a research talk on Heterogeneous Position Effects and the Power of Rankings.

With great pleasure we welcome our research associate Dr. Georg Reischauer to the DPE for an extended research visit! He will open his stay in Passau with a research talk on Politicized Framing of the Future: Stimulating…

Our Post-Doc Dr. Johanna Zimmermann was delighted to receive the Prize for her outstanding doctoral thesis. Her supervisor, Prof. Dr. Jan Hendrik Schumann, Chair of Marketing and Innovation, presented the young…

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Michael Keenan (International Food Policy Research Institute) to Passau for a few days and especially for a guest lecture on Thursday, February 8 2024; 4 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET).…

We are happy to host Julia Reimer (University of Würzburg) for a guest lecture on Thursday, January 25, 2024; 4 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET). She will give a talk on the topic “Innovation incentives and hybrid…

We are proud to welcome Prof. Dr. Jan Recker (University of Hamburg) for a guest lecture on Thursday, January 18 2024; 4 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET). He will give a talk on the topic “Digital Disruption in Strategic…

The Weizenbaum Institute (WI) is currently creating a comprehensive and carefully curated map of interdisciplinary digitization research in Germany. We are proud to be included with our Research Training Group!

“Topics in Management and Business Ethics: Organizational Wrongdoing”

A Seminar of the University of Passau with Professor Don Lange (Arizona State University and Mercator Fellow at University of Passsau) – Tuesday,…

Management professor Donald Lange from Arizona State University is currently conducting research on ethical questions as a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group 2720 "Digital Platform Ecosystems".

We are proud to welcome our Mercator Fellow Prof. Dr. Robert W. Gregory (Herbert Business School, University of Miami) for a guest lecture on Thursday, December 7, 2023; 5.15 PM to 6.15 PM (Passau time/CET). He will give…

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Tobias Kretschmer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) will come to Passau for a guest lecture on Thursday, Novemeber, 2023; 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET). He…

We have the great pleasure to welcome Urszula Wiszniowska Ayache (ESCP Paris) for a guest lecture on Thursday, October 26, 2023; 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET). She is going to give a talk on strategic leadership…

We are delighted to welcome our Mercator Fellow Professor Don Lange (Arizona State University) for his first prolonged stay in Passau at the Research Training Group. Especially, we invite everyone interested to his…

We are glad that Dr. Andreas Hein (TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technische Universität München) is going to visit us on Thursday, June 29, 2023; 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET).

The…

He will stay with us for three weeks, starting his visit with a Method Session on Building a Body of Evidence today. Tim also joins the DPE team at the Off-Site event next week and we look forward to many talks and…

We have the pleasure to welcome Dr. Sina Hardaker (Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg) for a guest lecture on Thursday, May 11, 2023; 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET). She going to give a talk on the framing…

We are happy to announce that Prof. Carmelo Cennamo (Copenhagen Business School) will come to Passau for a guest lecture on Thursday, May 4, 2023; 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET) about “BigTech M&As in Platform…

A team of economists from the University of Passau, including our PI Prof. Michael Grimm, has shown how Facebook ads can be used to identify people at risk of developing diabetes in Indonesia. Their research shows that…

It’s our great pleasure to welcome Prof. Dr. Bernd Skiera (Goethe University, Frankfurt) for a distinguished guest lecture on Thursday, April 27, 2023; 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM (Passau time/CET). He is going to talk about the…

written by Jasmin Kiefer, Carolin Castell, Sebastian Schubach, Jan Schumann, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, and Andreas König and funded by the DFG Research Training Group 2720 “Digital Platform Ecosystems”

The Office of US President Joe Biden sent Stefan Bauernschuster, Professor of Public Economics at the University of Passau, a thank-you e-mail after one of his studies was cited in the new US Economic Report.

Professor Carolin Häussler is a member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI), which presented its Report 2023 to the Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. In the interview, she calls for a major…

The DFG Research Training Group invites applications for the position of a Student Research Assistant (up to 30 hours per month) starting at the earliest possible date (latest beginning of the summer semester).

Last week Dr. Sabine Wiesmüller from the Zeppelin University gave a talk on „Brief Overview of AI Ethics & AI Governance in Theory and Practice“ as a part of the DPE Seminar. She is the Managing Director of the Bodensee…

Guest Lecture "Social Media and Democracy: Experimental Results " by Prof. Jens Prüfer

On Monday, February 6, 2023, Prof. Dr. Karoline Reinhardt will give a lecture via Zoom as part of the lecture series "Forschung & Ethik" of the Ethics Committee of the University of Passau. Below is a short summary of…

We would like to thank Dr. Asiedu for his time and commitment during his research stay at the University of Passau! A short report about his stay.

In this workshop, open to all (post)doctoral researchers at the University of Passau, early career researchers are going to learn about the principles of good scientific practice (GWP) and the relevant structures at the…

A team of scholars around Professor Andreas König have published a new paper related to Digital Platform Ecosystems in Technology Forecasting and Social Change. 

Guest Lecture "Towards a Strategic Governance Perspective of Digital Platform Ecosystems" by Prof. Tim Quigley

On September 29 and 30, 2022, a two-day symposium on "Interventions and instruments to enhance sustainable farming practices - Lessons from Indonesia and beyond" was held at the Chair of Development Economics of Prof.…

Want to learn more about our research training group? Tune in for the new episode of the podcast of the School of Business, Economics, and Information Systems on Spotify:  …

We are pleased to announce that Aurélien Mähl (DuckDuckGo) will join the course “Grundlagen der Internetwirtschaft” (Prof. Krämer) for a guest lecture and Q&A on July 14, 2022, 10 a.m., WiWi HS 5.

Aurélien will give a…

Digitalization of Africa

Can digitalization address development bottlenecks?

13 July 2022, 15-18h, (JUR) SR 147b University of Passau

Please register by sending an email before 6 July 2022 to: DevEcon@uni-passau.de.…

Dr Edward Asiedu experienced poverty in his childhood in Ghana. Now, he is developing a blueprint for actions against poverty as first visiting professor of the Passau International Centre of Advanced and…

The Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS), in collaboration with the Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems" (DPE) and the Chair of Development Economics (Prof. Grimm),…

We would like to inform you that the next Digital Development Dialogue will take place on Thursday, February 24th at 03:00 PM (UTC+1). The session is jointly organized with Michael Grimm (Research Group on Development…

Apply until February 28th for doctoral and postdoctoral positions, which are available for three years, starting October 2022, and are remunerated with an internationally competitive salary, with social security and…

Interdisciplinary, international, innovative: In their "How-to-Wiwi" podcast, Professor Jan Krämer and Professor Andreas König explain what distinguishes doctoral studies in the new DFG Research Training Group from other…

The new DFG  RTG "Digital Platform Ecosystems" offers early career researchers a focused research programme and a structured training strategy to prepare them for the job market in science and academia and encourage…

The interdisciplinary team of the University of Passau who organised the distinguished keynote series on "Digital Platform Ecosystems" draw their joint conclusions and reveal their learnings in this video.

Concluding #PassauDPE-keynote: Management Professor Elizabeth Altman from UMass Lowell is Andreas König's guest. She will combine her academic expertise with her experience as a senior executive.

Economist Carlo Schwarz from Bocconi University is Stefan Bauernschuster’s guest in our #PassauDPE keynote series. He studies the effects of Social Media on the real world.

#PassauDPE: Hannah Schmid-Petri introduces her guest, Philip Leifeld of the University of Essex, who uses new methods of network analysis to visualise the effects of policy networks in public debates.

#PassauDPE keynote series: How does value creation work in the era of platform giants such as Facebook and Google? Professor Jan Krämer announces his next guest Professor Hemant Bhargava from the University of…

#PassauDPE-keynote-series: Prof. Jan Krämer announces his guest, Prof. Jens Prüfer, who studies the regulation of data-driven platform markets and advises the EC on the online platform economy.

Platform openness raises important questions for businesses, but also for society: Daniel Schnurr introduces his guest Mark de Reuver from the TU Delft in our #PassauDPE-series.

Information-systems specialist Philipp Sleziona and marketing researcher Alina Grüner are conducting research in a DFG project about the moment when users decide to disclose their data.

Keynote series #PassauDPE: Professor Carolin Haeussler and Associate Professor Patrick Figge explain why they are looking forward to their guest Professor Edward Anderson from the University of Texas.

On Monday, Professor Andreas König is going to welcome Professor Saeed Khanagha from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in our distinguished keynote series on 'Digital Platform Ecosystems'.

Professor of Science Communiation, Hannah Schmid-Petri, and IT law Professor, Dirk Heckmann, are providing important insights for the European digital strategy in a joint bidt project.

On Thursday, Professor Andreas König is going to welcome Professor Carmelo Cennamo from the Copenhagen Business School in our distinguished keynote series on 'Digital Platform Ecosystems'.

On Monday, Professor Jan Schumann is going to welcome Professor Kelly Martin from Colorado State University College of Business in our Distinguished Keynote Series on Digital Platform Ecosystems. 

Distinguished keynote series on 'Digital Platform Ecosystems': Our University's Professor Thomas Widjaja explains why he is looking forward to Professor Robert Gregory from the University of Virginia.

Why are platforms such as Airbnb managing to cope better than traditional business areas with the coronavirus crisis? Passau researchers are working on different aspects of the sharing economy.