Research Institutes of the Schumpeter School
Below you will find a short list of the research institutes and centres of the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, as well as the institutes the Schumpeter Scholl closely cooperates with.
Bergisches Kompetenzzentrum für Gesundheitsökonomik und Versorgungsforschung (BKG)
Bergisches Competence Centre for Health Economics and Health Services Research
The Bergisches Kompetenzzentrum für Gesundheitsökonomik und Versorgungsforschung (BKG) is supported by the common vision of its initiators: the conviction that health is a central value - for every individual, for companies and for society. Health enables performance and value creation, leads to success and satisfaction. Researching, teaching and applying what makes people healthy is therefore a central challenge of the future. The BKG focuses on human health in a variety of ways in its projects and studies.
Institut für Gründungs- und Innovationsforschung (IGIF)
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research (IGIF)
The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research (IGIF) is thematically embedded in the commitment of the University of Wuppertal to the profile line "Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Change". In this university-wide profile element, the University of Wuppertal has been committed to entrepreneurship for many years and has been involved from the beginning in the nationwide funding programme "EXIST - Start-ups from Science" of the BMBF and BMWi as part of the regional start-up support network bizeps. In the process, it has received several awards as the "most start-up-friendly" German university.
Jackstädtzentrum für Unternehmertums- und Innovationsforschung
Jackstaedt Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research
The interdisciplinary Jackstaedt Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research deals with topics in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation as well as diverse aspects of entrepreneurial change. The research orientation encompasses both theoretical and empirical issues. Theories and methods from the fields of management, business, economics and psychology form the basis for investigating current phenomena in the aforementioned subject areas, questioning the familiar in new ways and developing innovative approaches to solutions. The transfer of knowledge between science, business and society is another focus of the Jackstaedt Centre.
Wuppertaler Institut für bildungsökonomische Forschung (WIB)
Wuppertal Research Institute for the Economics of Education
The Wuppertal Institute for Research in Economics of Education (WIB) is a university-wide scientific institution of the University of Wuppertal supported by the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics and the Institute for Research in Education (IfB) in the School of Education. The WIB emerged from the idea of linking economics, research in the economics of education and empirical educational research more closely together.
Wuppertaler Institut für Unternehmensforschung und Organisationspsychologie (WIFOP)
Wuppertal Institute for Business Research and Organisational Psychology (WIFOP)
The Wuppertal Institute for Business Research and Organisational Psychology (WIFOP) is an interdisciplinary scientific institution of the University of Wuppertal. WIFOP was founded in 2017 at the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics with the aim of establishing a regionally, nationally and internationally recognised centre of excellence for research and application in empirical business research and organisational psychology. The guiding idea of the interdisciplinary research and design approach is "business psychology and economics for people". This is linked to the goal of developing design concepts for the current changes in the world of work that meet both basic human needs and economic requirements.
