Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship (LEMEX)

Register now for practical experience in your studies at future concepts bremen for the summer semester!

The workshop "Introduction to library research - tips and tricks for students" will help you to find your way through the library's wide range of literature and will be a great help for future term papers and theses! Be part of it!

On March 15, the Mittelstand 4.0 Kompetenzzentrum Bremen will hold an event on how networking can help you on the way to founding a start-up and invites everybody who would like to come!

Dear students, the winter semester is coming to an end and the preparations for the new one are starting. Those who would like to write their Bachelor's and Master's thesis with us should take note of the following information: Kick-off event for the Bachelor and Master theses

In the upcoming summer semester of 2023, Professor Sybille Heilbrunn will offer "Who are the Winners and the Losers of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship?" in English.

On January 26, 2023 from 14:00 to 18:00 the Demo Day of future concepts bremen - Digital Innovation Projects will take place - and all interested parties are cordially invited!

The article "The Injection of Resources by Transnational Entrepreneurs: Towards a Model of the Early Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem," authored by Aki Harima, Jan Harima, and Jörg Freiling, was selected by the Editorial Board of the journal "Entrepreneurship & Regional Development".

Our Thomas Baron is a member of the working group "Startups & Innovations", which meets regularly to strengthen and support the startup landscape in Bremen.

Tenzin Yeshi, Aki Harima, and Jörg Freiling challenge the static view of resilience in entrepreneurship research by theorizing the resilience of refugee entrepreneurs as a dynamic process of business development.

On 16 Nov 22, the RENT Conference was held in Naples, Italy, under the heading "Re-thinking Entrepreneurship After the Crisis." This year, the focus was on exploring the impact of the COVID pandemic on start-up activity and the survival of start-ups and entrepreneurs.

The start-up ReMedi Health won the 2nd audience award at the prototype party at ZUKUNFT.unternehmen gGmbH in Oldenburg on November 15. We are particularly pleased about this, as the founding group developed this business idea in one of our courses.

Our Leon Marquardt has returned from his research trip. For two months, from the end of August to the end of October, he was at the Department of Business and Governance at TalTech - Tallinn University of Technology and was supported by Prof. Susanne Durst.

In our guest lecture series, we will highlight key topics of start-ups. For this purpose, we were able to win over four speakers who will present us with practical insights at first hand.

During the 13th SKM Symposium at the TU Kaiserslautern, Jörg Freiling presented an authored paper on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.

In the first week of October, our Thomas Baron was in Amsterdam at ADEGreen - a conference on sustainability, innovation and social change. There he presented together with Sybrith Tiekstra from Aalborg University the evaluation of their results of the project.

The LEMEX congratulates on the completion of the dissertation, which Dr. Ekaterina Brandtner successfully defended on 02.09.2022.

In the research mile laid out along the quays, LEMEX was also represented this year at the Maritime Days 2022 in Bremerhaven as part of the Mittelstand 4.0 competence centre in Bremen.

This year, the 82nd annual conference of the Academy of Management took place under this heading.

We are looking for student support for a varied range of tasks and offer the chance to gain insights into the startup scene with flexible working hours. Get in touch if you are interested in helping out!

As part of a funded cooperation project, the LEMEX (University of Bremen) and the StartUp Fabular.ai are looking for a Student Assistant in the area of Online Marketing/SEO and in the area of Front-end Development.

Dear students, the summer semester is coming to an end and the preparations for the new one are starting. Those who would like to write their Bachelor's and Master's thesis with us should take note of the following information: Kick-off event for the Bachelor and Master theses

Last week Thomas Baron and Quynh Duong Phuong visited HOWEST University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen), our Belgian Inno-Quarter partner.

Under the heading "Organizing: The Beauty of Imperfection," the interesting conference was held in Vienna July 7-9, with contributions from Aki Harima of LEMEX and Crista Plak of the University of Limoges.

The students were supported by LEMEX in the Department of Economics at the University of Bremen and the company TOPAS Industriemathematik Innovation gGmbH as company sponsor.

Together with students, we from LEMEX experienced a lively discussion about selected business ideas, founding teams and the pitches from the TV series "Die Höhle der Löwen". Many thanks!

Joerg Freiling and Max Oestreich, MA MBA CITuP explore the question whether the Search Fund could be an interesting model for Central European countries with an increase in business successions.

The next guest speaker is waiting in the wings. Next week on Friday, June 17, we will welcome Jan Elsner. We will get interesting insights into his startup Skinuvita, which develops a digital home therapy system for people with chronic skin diseases.

We congratulate our Thomas Baron on his dissertation award with the 1st place! In his thesis, he dealt with the regional characteristics of start-up ecosystems and their development.

Prof. Steve Riccio and students from Dickinson College were guests at the University of Bremen. On this occasion, the American students presented their business ideas, which they had developed in their courses. 

Another publication from the LEMEX team. In this article, Quynh Duong Phuong and Joerg Freiling show how the university campus influences the entrepreneurial start-up conditions of students - two areas that have not been linked before.

The Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Bremen supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their digital transformation. Along with four other institutions, LEMEX also provides a team that participates in this project and accompanies SMEs in questions of digitalisation.

Dear innovators, This semester, Prof. Dr. Friedrich von den Eichen from LEMEX (FB7) is again offering the course Business Model Innovations: Management of Evolutionary and Disruptive Business Model Innovations.

The next semester is just around the corner! Did you know that future concept bremen is once again offering you the chance to gain practical experience during your studies?

Within the growing number of migrants, we can find an increasing number of refugees over the last couple of years. Reasons for this are wars, civil wars, and catastrophes of different kinds that make people leave their home country often completely unprepared.

The prototype party aftermovie is ready

Another publication from the LEMEX team. Aki Harima's study examines how the process of embeddedness influences refugees' resource mobilization in their entrepreneurial activities.

Four student teams of the business administration course Project IEM² VI - Digital Innovation Projects I present their solutions to entrepreneurial questions at the DEMO DAY of future concepts bremen on 02.02.2022.

Dear students, the winter semester is coming to an end and the preparations for the new one are starting. Those who would like to write their Bachelor's and Master's thesis with us should take note of the following information: Kick-off event for the Bachelor and Master theses

We are pleased to announce that our colleague Jan has been awarded the Berninghausen Award for Excellence in Teaching 2021 in the category Student Award for the bachelor course "Project Entrepreneurship".

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University of Bremen, three current projects of the Graduate Group will be presented and discussed in a panel series with representatives of business, the public sector and academia as part of the "Campus City" event series:

In the panel Successful…

Dear students, the kick-off event for the final theses at LEMEX in the wintersemester 2021/22 is going to take place on the 15th of October 2021 from 12:00-01:00pm. The Kick-Off meeting is going to take at the university. The exact room will be announced soon.

Are you working on a start-up idea or have you already founded a company and would like to further develop your product or service based on customer feedback? Then apply by 30th of September at https://innoquarter.eu/join-innoquarter/ and be there on 25th of November 2021 with your test!

All…

We are looking for a student assistant to join the Lemex team on 1st of November to support us in different areas.

More detailed information can be found in the job description linked below:

Job advertisement SHK position Lemex

Deadline for applications is 15.09. We are looking forward to you!

Today's working world is constantly facing new challenges. Many different methods already exist to master these challenges. In a workshop in cooperation with DOCK ONE, the M4.0 team from LEMEX offers the opportunity to discuss needs in industry with other companies from the region and to jointly…

The Innoquarter project goes into another round!

Next Saturday, 24th of July, from 16:30, there will again be some exciting ideas from three local startups specializing in sustainability at the OpenSpace³ Domshof, which are waiting for your valuable feedback.

The founders of EntoSus, Victors Tofu…

Five student teams from the business administration course Consulting, Corporate and Startup Innovation Projects present their digital business models at DEMO DAY. The student teams have worked together with cooperation partners from practice. The following teams and topics are participating:

Team…

Together with our external PhD student Ekaterina Brandtner, Prof. Freiling has published another paper in the Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation (JEMI). In the article entitled Is dominant logic a value or a liability? On the explorative turn in the German power utility industry,…

Dear Founders,

The German Startup Association needs your voice! The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged us tremendously. This year, we want to overcome the crisis and demonstrate how important startups are in renewing our economy and society. What we need above all for this: facts and figures! Make…

Dear startup enthusiasts,

We would like to invite you to the StartUp Day as part of the Open Campus Week on June 7, 2021. This will take place under the motto "Founding? Of course! - From university to StartUp". In addition to a wide range of information, there will be an exciting online LIVE…

We are proud to announce another publication by Aki Harima, Jan Harima and Prof. Freiling. The journal article entitled The Injection of Resources by Transnational Entrepreneurs: Towards a Model of the Early Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem was recently published in the 33rd issue of the…

Dear students, the kick-off event for the final theses at LEMEX in the summersemester 2021 is going to take place on the 10th of March 2021 from 12:00-01:00pm. The Kick-Off meeting is going to take place via zoom. You can join the session under the following link:

In cooperation with the Office for Practice and International Affairs we are going to host the Future Concepts Bremen Demo Day on the 11. of February from 12 o'clock. In this online event, more than 15 different presentations in the area of Innovation, Marketing and Digitalization from different…

Our newest edition of our LEMEX Research Papers is online! In this fourth volume five articles explore the entrepreneurship phenomena from theoretical/conceptual aspects. This issue covers rich entrepreneurship-related topics.

Due to the current developments regarding the Coronavirus, we unfortunately have to cancel the Bremer Unternehmertag which would have taken place on the 7th. of May 2020. The cancellation is just as difficult for us considering the passion for the topic and the promotion of cooperation between co...

Dear Students,

Here you can find to slides from our Kick-Off event as well as the contact form for writing your thesis at our chair.

Submission Deadline for the contact form is 09th of March at 11am. 

Dear Students,

This is a short reminder regarding our kickoff meeting on writing a thesis at our chair on 28th. of Febuary.

You can find all detailed information here.

Dear Students,

The Kick-off event for writing a thesis at our chair will take place on February 28.

There will be seperate events for bachelor and master thesis which are as followed:

Bachelor meeting is from 12:00 to 13:00 Master meeting is from 13:00 to 14:00

The event will take place in room…

Our new textbook Entrepreneurship - Gründung und Skalierung von Startups is now finally available. 

The textbook published by Springer Verlag discusses scientific entrepreneurship models and methods and techniques relevant for start-ups in an innovative and understandable way. Each chapter guides…

...our colleagues Jan Elsner and Tate Narimanyan!

The wiwib e.V. once again organised the ceremony on the 12th of November in the chamber of commerce in Bremen.  After a welcoming address by Kristina Vogt, the Senator of Economics, Labour and Europe of the freie Hansestadt Bremen, all winners were…

We congratulate our colleague Jan Elsner for the acceptance of his master thesis into the "BestMasters" series by the publisher Springer.

Under the title "Drivers of Corporate learning through an Involvement in Business Accelerators" Jan Elsner conducted a case study at Airbus, which also features…

Dear Students,

Here you can find to slides from our Kick-Off event as well as the contact form for writing your thesis at our chair.

Submission Deadline for the contact form is 21st of October at 11am.  

Dear Students,

The Kick-off event for writing a thesis at our chair will take place on October 11th in room WiWi 1-A1100.

There will be seperate events for bachelor and master thesis which are as followed:

Bachelor meeting is from 12:00 to 13:00

Master meeting is from 13:00 to 14:00

We look…

Dear Students,

The Kick-off event for writing a thesis at our chair will take place on October 11th.

There will be seperate events for bachelor and master thesis which are as followed:

Bachelor meeting is from 12:00 to 13:00

Master meeting is from 13:00 to 14:00

The room will be announced soon.

Das Innoquarter Projekt (hier klicken für weitere Infos) war gemeinsam mit dem Moin Startup Camp auf der Breminale, um verschiedenen Gründern die Möglichkeit zu geben, sich von den Breminale Besuchern Feedback für ihre Geschäftsideen einzuholen. Wir sind sehr stolz, dass das Magazin "Weser…

The BYRD Advisory Board (consisting of doctoral candidates, postdocs and university lecturers) together with the Alumni Association of the University of Bremen has awarded prizes for outstanding doctoral supervision. Among the 24 nominees, Prof. Dr. Jörg Freiling was awarded with the second place.…

We concratulate our former LEMEX co-worker  Martin Krikken on the successful completion of his doctorate on the topic: The Organizational Response to Remote Service Delivery – A Competence-Based Exploration of ‘Remotability’ in the Capital Goods Sector Congratulations, we are very happy!

Together with Prof. Sibylle Heilbrunn, Dr. Aki Harima and Prof. Jörg Freiling have published a new book.

"Refugee Entrepreneurship" is a collection of stories from refugees who have become self employed.

The Weser Kurier has done an article about this case-based topography aswell. You can find it …