MIC Group

MIC Group (i.e. Managing Innovation and Collaboration) consists of interdisciplinary researchers in the field of innovation management, collaboration and entrepreneurship, whose mission has become to generate and exchange scientific knowledge for the sake of transferring it into teaching and management.

Research & Management Transfer

Current research focuses on the management of Innovation Ecosystems and Innovation Spaces (esp. corporate makerspaces), Industry-Startup Collaboration (i.e. transmission of entrepreneurial behavior into established firms) and Innovation Culture (e.g. entrepreneurial mindset and education).

Unternehmertum im Kreis Ahrweiler: Praxisberichte von CEOs über Krisen, Chancen und die Zukunft

Heinzen, M. & Thiele, J. (2024), In: SpringerGabler. Berlin.

Corporate Makerspaces : An Empirical Mixed-Method Study of Its Elements and Their Impact on Users and Companies

Rieken, F., Heck, J., Heinzen, M., & Meboldt, M. (2024). In: Engineering Management Journal, 1-21.

From athlete to entrepreneur?–Investigating the influence of sport characteristics on athlete’s entrepreneurial orientation competencies.

Haski, S., Moustakas, L., Heinzen, M., von Korflesch, H., Kalina, L., & Stanescu, R. (2024). In: Managing Sport and Leisure, 1-19.

Reconfiguring resources for strategic posture: Changes of entrepreneurial orientation through acquisition.

Conrads, Jan/ Heinzen, Mareike/ Baum, Matthias (2023). In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 100135.

Sustainable-oriented Innovation : How the succession phase of family-owned SMEs can make the difference

Heinzen, Mareike. In: Proceedings of 24th CINet Conference 2023, Linz.

Kollaboration im Innovationsprozess : Lab, Incubator, Accelerator, Makerspace?

Heinzen, Mareike/ Conrads, Jan/ Rieken, Finn. In: Personal quarterly : Wissenschaftsjournal für die Personalpraxis. Bd. Schwerpunkt_Future Work: Die Rolle des Büros. H. 01. 2021 S. 30 - 37.

Visibilität in Forschung und Entwicklung : wie der Arbeitsplatz die Kommunikation beeinflusst

Heinzen, Mareike/ Boutellier, Roman. In: Personal quarterly : Wissenschaftsjournal für die Personalpraxis. Bd. Schwerpunkt_Future Work: Die Rolle des Büros. H. 01. 2021 S. 10 - 17.

Corporate makerspaces as innovation driver in companies : a literature review-based framework

Rieken, Finn/ Boehm, Thomas/ Heinzen, Mareike/ Meboldt, Mirko. In: Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. Bd. 31. H. 1. Bradford, West Yorkshire: Emerald 2019 S. 91 - 123.