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Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Christiane Rau

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Christiane Rau graduated in 2009 of industrial engineering and management at FAU. Her majors were industrial management and information technologies on the BA side, as well as production systems and automation on the side of manufacturing systems engineering. Previous to the work as a Student Assistant, Christiane gained practical experience as a working student for Siemens. Furthermore she worked half a year as an intern at Siemens Switchgear Shanghai Ltd. in China. Aside from that, she joined timely a research project at the Imperial College London to work on a cooperation project under the lead of Prof. John Bessant.

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03. Journal Papers

Rau, C., Neyer, A. - K., & Möslein, K. M. 2012. Innovation practices and their boundary-crossing mechanisms: a review and proposals for the future. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 24(02): 181–217.

04. Conference Papers

Rau, C., Neyer, A. - K., & Möslein, K. M. 2011. Innovation Practices and Their ’Boundary-Crossing Mechanisms’: a Review and Proposals for the Future. European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM). Talllinn, 01.-04.06.2010.
Rau, C., Neyer, A. - K., & Möslein, K. M. 2011. Playing possum, hide-and-seek, and other behavioural patterns: crossing knowledge boundaries in innovation projects. British Academy of Management Conference (BAM). Birmingham, 13.-15.09.2011.
Rau, C. 2010. How stakeholders interact? The role of co-design practices in framing interaction in the context of product-service systems’ design. European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM) Doctorial colloquium. Rome, 19.-22.05.2010.

Dissertation Topic

Innovation Practices – Supporting knowledge sharing across knowledge boundaries in projects

In today’s market places, products and services become increasingly complex. When coping with these new challenges, harnessing specialized knowledge for innovation projects across different domains within and outside the organization is more than ever relevant. Thus, companies have to learn how to share knowledge across boundaries between the actors involved. Especially among diverse actors in innovation projects, semantic and pragmatic boundaries are relevant. Recognizing the need to bridging those boundaries effectively, recently tools and methods – referred to as innovation practices - attain scholarly interest, but still significant gaps exist in our understanding of how innovation practices support or hinder the process of knowledge sharing across boundaries.

To advance research in this area, I conduct an interview study with innovation managers, followed by an in-depth case study. With this approach I strive to answer my research questions, which are listed below:

  • What types of semantic and pragmatic knowledge boundaries exist in innovation projects among diverse actors?
  • How do innovation practices frame the process of dissolving those boundaries? Which mechanisms can be identified?
  • Which innovation practices are in particular suitable to dissolve those boundaries?