International Innovation and Medium-Sized Enterprise Research

The Competence Centre for International Innovation and Medium-Sized Enterprise Research offers expertise in the areas of international management, strategy advice, HR management and financing to companies that are planning activities abroad or require assistance for certain countries from Central and Eastern Europe or Asia. The centre is available to middle-sized companies for strategic and operative controlling instruments that are especially accrued in conjunction with Basel II and the rating requirements of financial institutions, and also discusses alternative financing instruments with them. In the health industry area, the competence centre also serves insurance companies and hospitals that are implementing performance management as an organisation, HR, quality management and controlling team.

International Management

Strategic and international management / international analyses of sector structures / Central and Eastern Europe / business in Asia / country and cultural research / comparative research / international HR and finance management / regional cluster analyses and foreign direct investments

Innovation Research

International legal matters and principles of competition and innovation / international operative suggestion scheme / Basel II / FTE rating and the consequences for R&D and innovations at companies / controlling at technology-oriented companies / empirical studies on R&D and innovation policy-making at middle-sized companies in the EU / research and innovation controlling / investigation of selected innovation process chains / relocation and internationalisation of R&D and production divisions / creative, innovative organisation structures and HR management systems / legal aspects of inventions and innovations / technological consequence assessment and corporate ethics

Medium-Sized Enterprise Research

Legal and business administrative aspects of corporate succession / legal and business administrative assessment of Basel II / FTE / IAS / IFRS / remediation management / legal and practical business administrative aspects of corporate crises and bankruptcies / HR controlling from a fiscal perspective / financial controlling / financial inducements and financial instruments / technology marketing / capital goods marketing / legal and business administrative questions pertaining to company valuation / business administrative software development