The Institute for Innovation Management and Personnel Development (IFIP) was founded on 21^st November 1996. Founding initiatives can be traced back to a cooperation between Chemnitz-Zwickau University of Technology and the Association for Research into Professional Development Berlin e.V. (ABWF), in 1994.

The Institute is focusing on the analysis of interdisciplinary, interrelated, and innovative projects in labour organisations and in professional consulting.

The primary subject of research is the optimal use and promotion of intellectual capital in innovation processes with the objective of effectiveness and efficiency. Remarkably, not only product and process innovations but especially social innovations are of interest. Perceptions can be used directly in the development of methods, instruments and tools for innovation management.

Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred F. Moldaschl

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Research of the Professorship of Human Resources Management and Leadership is linked to the Institute for Excellence in Organisation Studies and Strategy (FOKUS), formerly Institute for the Economic Sociology of Labour. For more than twenty years, projects in different fields of research have been carried out successfully in support of a variety of partner institutes.

Areas of Research include:

• Knowledge Management
• High Performance
• Strategic Human Resource Management and Development / International Human Resource Management
• Intellectual Capital (IMO, NCP)
• Transfer and Protection of Knowledge Management Concepts and Experiences

Director: Prof. Dr. Peter Pawlowsky

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