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CASE STUDIES AND

RESEARCH FINDINGS

In 2023, a small group of business angel collegues from BACB Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V., (me included) went to Ukraine, guided by the question:

Can European (and other) business angels contribute to Ukraine's recovery already today? For our findings, please use the link below.

Industry: Innovation ecosystems, business angels, early-stage investment

Period covered: 2022 - 2023

Published: 12/2023

Organization: BACB, Gigahertz Ventures

From 2015 to 2018, I had the chance to gain first-hand insights into industrial IoT development in Germany and globally. This case study looks at industry potentials as well as at the case of Agilion GmbH.

Industry: Industrial IoT

Period covered: 2015 - 2018

Published: 2019, 2020

Organization: Agilion GmbH

Lessons learned and research findings in business incubation development during my work in thi field in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from 2002 to 2014

Industry: Innovation ecosystems, business incubators, technology parks

Period covered: 2002 - 2014

Published: 2004, 2009, 2014

Organization: World Bank, UN

From 2009 to 2014, I was coordinating a scientific program with the objective to establish research collaboration and information exchange between leading German and Eastern European scientists and research institutions in the area of bioenergy. This case study (in German) provides an overview on the network activities and outcomes.

Industry: bioenergy, energy, climate tech, renewables

Period covered: 2009 - 2014

Published: 2014

Organization: Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (German Biomass Research Center)

Just a couple of days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we (Gigahertz Ventures) together with our partners CFSR and ICC International Chamber of Commerce Ukraine decided to provide humanitarian aid by delivering evacuation buses and aid supply for people in war zones within Ukraine. Just two weeks after the war broke out, we handed over the first buses on Ukrainian soil.

Industry: Humanitarian aid, logistics, NGOs

Period covered: 2022

Published: 2023

Organization: Bus-loads of Hope, Bürger für Bürger

East Germany after the German reunification in 1990 is a fascinating story of hope and new beginnings, but also of frustration and upheavals in personal stories. This is likely true for many, if not all, countries in the former Eastern Bloc. This case study of my former public relations agency Zastrow & Schandera demonstrates how to get global with little budget.

Industry: Food

Period covered: 1995 - 1999

Published: 2023

Organization: Zastrow & Schandera PR

The International Business College Mitrovica (IBC-M) is a higher educational institution located in Mitrovica, Northern Kosovo. The college operates two campuses on each side of the ethnically divided town. This case study provides some inside into my work as college director (rector/head of college) in Mitrovica from 2013 to 2015.

Industry: Education (HEI)

Period covered: 2013 - 2015

Published: 2016

Organization: Spark International, IBC-M

This training program is the first-of-its-kind, drawing from the lessons, models, and examples in business incubation from across Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, and South Asia.

Industry: Innovation ecosystems, international development, business incubation, capacity building

Period covered: 2010 - 2013

Published: 2013

Organization: infoDev, World Bank