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Dipl.-Kfm. Matthias Raß

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Matthias graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a Master in business administration (Dipl.-Kfm.). His majors were information systems, strategic management, and health care management. During his studies, he worked as a student research assistant at the department of information systems and gained practical experience in internships and projects with firms like Horváth & Partners Management Consultants, BayTech, Noris Markt AG, and several others. For his diploma thesis on the determinants of innovation team performance, he received the Hermann Weiler Foundation best thesis award. Matthias' current research focuses on open innovation and social capital.

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Publications

03. Journal Papers

Bullinger, A. C., Rass, M., Adamczyk, S., Möslein, K. M., & Sohn, S. 2012. Open Innovation in Health Care: Analysis of an Open Health Platform. Health Policy, 105(2-3): 165-175.
Bullinger, A. C., Neyer, A. - K., Rass, M., & Möslein, K. M. 2010. Community-based innovation contests: Where competition meets cooperation. Creativity and Innovation Management, 19(3): 290-303.

04. Conference Papers

Rass, M., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2012. The Social Side of Open Innovation: Toward a Social Capital Theory of Open Innovation. 10th International Open and User Innovation Workshop. Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA.
Rass, M., & Bullinger, A. C. 2012. Sharing Is Caring: On the Importance of Social Capital for Open Innovation. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference 2012. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Bullinger, A. C., Rass, M., & Möslein, K. M. 2012. Towards Open Innovation in Health Care. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Barcelona, Spain.
Rass, M., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2012. Team Performance in Open Innovation Settings: The Role of Internal and External Social Capital. R&D Management Conference 2012. Grenoble, France.
Rass, M., Bullinger, A. C., Adamczyk, S., & Sohn, S. 2012. Open Innovation im Gesundheitswesen: Der Einsatz einer offenen Innovationsplattform zur Integration relevanter Personengruppen in den Innovationsprozess. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie. Konstanz, Germany.
Kuenne, C., Rass, M., Adamczyk, S., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2011. Patients as Innovators: An Open Innovation Perspective on Health 2.0. 2011 World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation. San Francisco, California, USA.
Kuenne, C., Adamczyk, S., Rass, M., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2011. IT-Based Interaction Platforms to Foster Virtual Patient Communities. GeNeMe '11. Dresden, Germany.
Rass, M., Dumbach, M., Danzinger, F., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2011. Open Innovation and Firm Performance: Investigating the Mediating Role of Social Capital. R&D Management Conference 2011. Norrköping, Sweden.
Rass, M., & Bullinger, A. C. 2011. Ingenious Individuals or Creative Collaboration? An Investigation of Determinants of Innovation Team Performance. EIASM Workshop on the Hidden Sides of Creativity in Organizational Settings, ESSEC Business School. Paris, France.
Rass, M., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2010. What Really Matters When it Comes to Team Creativity: Team Members’ Creative Personality, Team-internal Knowledge Transfer or Boundary Spanning?. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference 2010. Rome, Italy.
Rass, M., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2010. What Makes Our Team Creative? Is It Me, Us, or the Others? – Insights from Teams in a Competitive Open Innovation Setting. Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference 2010. Riva del Garda, Italy.
Sohn, S., Beckmann, M., Rass, M., Schöffski, O., Sippel, W., Zagel, C., et al. 2009. Berufsgruppenspezifische Akzeptanz der elektronischen Patientenakte. 54. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie. Essen, Germany.

07. Book Chapters

Kuenne, C., Rass, M., Adamczyk, S., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2012. Patients as Innovators: An Open Innovation Perspective on Health 2.0. In Piller, F., & Chesbrough, H. (Eds.), Bridging Mass Customization & Open Innovation.
Bullinger, A. C., Rass, M., & Adamczyk, S. 2010. Using Innovation Contests to Master Challenges of Demographic Change: Insights from Research and Practice. In Kunisch, S., Boehm, S., & Boppel, M. (Eds.), From Grey to Silver: Managing the Demographic Change Successfully: 163-174. Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York: Springer.

Dissertation Topic

In the past years, the Internet has seen the emergence of an increasing number of open innovation communities. They have been initiated for different reasons. On the one hand, more and more users are organizing themselves in order to collaboratively find solutions to a wide range of existing problems and to fulfill needs that are not met by commercial offerings. On the other hand, companies have discovered the potential of integrating users and other actors into the development of new products and services. In order to reach a large number of diverse and geographically dispersed people, a large portion of these open innovation initiatives uses online platforms to connect the involved individuals. Large communities and complex social networks emerge around these online platforms.

Matthias’ research builds on network theory and a knowledge-based view of the organization to investigate how the social capital that inheres in social relations and networks influences knowledge transfer and innovation performance. For his analyses of relationships between relevant variables, he studies different levels and considers the perspectives of an individual, a team, a closed organization, and an open community. Matthias mainly applies quantitative methods (e.g., structural equation modeling, social network analysis) based on survey and network data.