Robin Nowak
Vita
Since September 2021, Robin Nowak is a research associate and since January 2022 a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Organization Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau. He studied Industrial Engineering with a focus on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (B.Eng.) at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and subsequently completed a Master's degree in Business Administration (M.Sc.) at the University of Passau. He spent study visits at Shanghai Polytechnic University in China and Chitkara University in India. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Information and IT Service Management at the University of Passau and gained practical experience as an associate for strategic projects and processes at Bosch Building Technologies in Munich.
Research Interests:
- Innovation and Collaboration in Digital Platform Ecosystems
- B2B Platforms
Tutorials:
- Master's Tutorial “Strategy for High-Tech Startups” (SoSe 2022)
- Master's Tutorial „Organizational and Competitive Strategy” (WiSe 2021/2022)
Seminars:
- Bachelor's Seminar “Innovation und Unternehmertum in Digitalen Plattformen“ (WiSe 2021/2022)
- Bachelor's Seminar „Co-Creation und Innovation in Digital Platform Ecosystems“ (WiSe 2023/2024)
- Master's Seminar „Digital Platforms and University-Business Transfer Systems” (SoSe 2022)
- Master's Seminar „Transferring AI into Innovation” (SoSe 2024)
Lectures:
- "Interactive Innovation and Public Policy Workshop" (WiSe 2022/2023)
Theses supervision:
- Topics: Economics of Innovation in Digital Platforms, Text Mining in Innovation Management, The Role of Ownership in B2B-Platforms
- Empirical or not empirical
Academic Presentations:
- From Supply Chains to Industrial Platforms: A Conceptual Model of Platform Emergence and Growth (with Figge, P., Haeussler, C., Maier, M., Wiesmüller, A.), accepted for presentation at 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, USA, 08/2023.
- Unleashing Through Innovation - How Platform Dependency Affects Innovation Behavior of Complementors (with Janßen, R., Figge, P.) 1stEuropean Digital Platform Research Network (EU-DPRN) Summit, Bocconi University, Italy, 06/2023.
Academic Presentations:
- The Role of Ownership for Governance Mechanisms in Emerging Digital Industrial Platforms (with C. Haeussler and P. Figge),Research Seminar, Passau, Germany, 12/2023.
- Unleashing Through Innovation - How Platform Dependency Affects Innovation Behavior of Complementors (with Janßen, R., Figge, P.), DPE Offsite, Grafenau, Germany 05/2023; TIM Doctoral Consortium des 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, USA, 08/2023; Research Seminar, Passau, Germany, 09/2023.
- Exploitive or Just Right? Ecosystem Orchestration, Platform Dependency, and Complementors Value Creation Activities (with C. Haeussler and P. Figge),Research Seminar, Vienna, Austria, 06/2022.
- How Do Platform Entrepreneurs Think? Exploring Entrepreneurial Cognition in Digital Platform Ecosystems (Masterthesis), Research Seminar, Passau, Germany, 09/2021.
- Scholarship holder as part of the 'Deutschlandstipendium' (sponsor: 4Process AG), 2020/2021
- Scholarship for the 'University Abroad Program' of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University/ Chitkara University, awarded by the DHBW Foundation, 08/2019
- Peer Reviewer, Academy of Management Conference, 2023 & 2024.