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The two research fellows Alexander Arzt and Lino Markfort from the project Data Mining and Value Creation participated in this year's Spring Servitization Conference. Organized by the Advanced Services Group, this year it revolved around the focus topic “Servitization: A Pathway towards a Resilient, Productive and Sustainable Future”.

A team of scientists from the Data Mining and Value Creation project has successfully completed the pilot project with Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbh (LMBV). The pilot project developed a prototype software solution for more efficient processing of inquiries about mining rehabilitation activities. 

On November 9th, 2020, the World Bank published the report “Europe 4.0: Addressing the Digital Dilemma”, with contributions by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Posselt, Institute Director of Fraunhofer IMW, Dr. Riad Bourayou, Research Fellow at the Chair of Innovation Management and Innovation Economics at the University of Leipzig, and Dr. Sebastian Haugk, Team Leader Concept and Method Development in the Data Mining and Value Creation project.

Since March 2020, the Data Mining and Value Creation team at Fraunhofer IMW has been working together with Werkzeug-Eylert, a tool wholesaler from Chemnitz, on two exciting questions concerning data-based value creation.

This year's Spring Servitization Conference with the motto “Advanced Services for Sustainability and Growth” was postponed from May to September due to the Covid 19 pandemic and was held exclusively in digital format from September 14 to 16, 2020. 

In a chapter for the book Perspektiven des Dienstleistungsmanagements (Perspectives of Service Management), Prof. Dr. Thorsten Posselt, director of the Fraunhofer IMW, as well as Dr. Sebastian Haugk and Dr. Riad Bourayou, research fellows in the project Data Mining and Value Creation, assess Europe as a player in the global platform economy. 

On November 12 and 13, 2019, the Fraport Forum at Frankfurt Airport and the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) held the 18th INNOVATION Forum of the Platform for Innovation in Germany (PFI-D). Over two days, around 300 cross-industry specialists and managers from business and science discussed future topics such as digitization, collaboration and cross-innovation.

On September 27, 2019, part of the project team Data Mining and Value Creation visited seecon Ingenieure at their offices in the Baumwollspinnerei.

Blockchain is a polarizing topic. While the technology is often associated with the development of the Internet of Value, so many doubts and myths surround Blockchain. The idea behind our workshop was to clarify what Blockchain actually is and what concrete application possibilities exist in companies

At the event “Digital Platforms - Effects and Benefits for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises” on September 18, 2019, the eStandards 4.0 Competence Center at the Fraunhofer IMW answered questions about the trend of platform economics.

At this year's NET19, the industry meeting place for digitization topics by seecon engineers, the employees of the research project Data Mining and Value Creation will have their own lecture block.

How can already generated field data help to become more competitive and exploit growth potential? The Impulse Paper “Growth Paths in the Digitization of Business Models in Industrial Enterprises”, published by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), reflects the current discussion of the Platform Industry 4.0.

Alexander Arzt, research fellow in the Data Mining and Value Creation project, reports on the Spring Servitization Conference 2019 and explains the poster he presented at the conference.

Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer, Project Manager Data Mining and Value Creation, is co-author of three new articles on digitization and value creation from data in the trade magazines Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, and Business Horizons.

In the Data Mining and Value Creation project, we are working with the City of Leipzig to further develop its approach to Open Data. Since it is often unclear what can be done with data at all, a workshop was held with the city's employees on March 14, 2019 at the Fraunhofer IMW premises. Sonja Ries, research fellow in the Data Mining and Value Creation project, answers some questions about the workshop.

The project Data Mining and Value Creation was part of the Research Day program at the Fraunhofer IMW on January 24, 2019. Project manager Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer gave a short overview of the project. Milan Pentrack and Bastien Bodenstein, research fellows in the project, then presented their main areas of work.

For the renowned trade magazine Industrial Marketing Management, a call for papers for the special issue on "Digital servitization: crossing the perspectives of digitization and service transformation" will run until December 21, 2018. Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer, Project Manager Data Mining and Value Creation, is the guest editor of this issue.

Dr. Heiko Gebauer, project manager of the digital project unit Data Mining and Value Creation at Fraunhofer IMW, presented the joint project with the University of Leipzig in the working group Knowledge and Technology Transfer at the premises of the Leipzig Chamber of Industry and Commerce.