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Professur für Innovationsforschung und Technologiemanagement
Innovation Research and Technology Management
Professur für Innovationsforschung und Technologiemanagement 
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Team, External Researchers & Adjunct Lecturers

Diana Heinbucher

Research Assistant

Phone
+49 (371) 531 37013
Seat
Thüringer Weg 7, Room 115 (new: C33.115)
Sprechstunde
by email agreement


Research interests

  • Creative and Cultural Industries
  • Creativity and team creativity
  • Artificial Intelligence in (team) creativity and innovation processes
  • Shared mental models and team processes
  • Team development and team processes in the area of ​​innovation
  • Organizational development in the NPO sector/third sector
  • Social innovations

Research projects

Awards

  • Member of the Saxon Citizens' Delegation "Day of German Unity" in Hamburg 2023 (2023)
  • Marie Pleissner Prize (2021)
  • Offices

    • Chairwoman of the Board of Radio T e. V. since April 2013 (Board member since April 2006)
    • Chairwoman of the Network for Culture and Youth Work since July 2021 (Board member since September 2020, areas: culture, youth participation, foundations) (September 2020 to May 2024)

    Courses

    • Innovation Research - Creativity, Imagination and AI in the Innovation Process, Summer Semester 2024
    • Fundamentals of Management and Entrepreneurship, Lecture and Exercise: Creativity and Business Idea Development, Summer Semester 2024
    • Tutorial Knowledge Management, WS 2023/24
    • Seminar HR Development, Competence and Knowledge Management, WS 2023/24
    • Innovation and Consulting Exercise: Creativity Techniques, WS 2023/24
    • Innovation and Consulting Exercise: GreenCreativity and Eco-Innovation, WS 2023/24
    • Lecture Innovation and Consulting: Creativity and Idea Management, WS 2023/24
    • Innovation Research - Innovation and Strategy Development in Non-Profit Organizations, Summer Semester 2023
    • Innovation, Economy & Society: Creativity and Imagination Research, Summer Semester 2023
    • Methods of Empirical Social Research, WS 2022/23
    • Innovation and Consulting, Lecture and Exercise Unit - Creativity, WS 2022/23
    • Application project Accessibility in the Capital of Culture 2025 Summer Semester 2022-Winter semester 2022/23
    • Innovation Research - Organizational Development in the NPO Sector, Summer Semester 2022
    • Economy & Society Seminar: Green Creativity and Eco-Innovation, Summer Semester 2022
    • Methods of Empirical Social Research, WS 2021/22
    • Innovation and Consulting Exercise, Creativity Techniques, WS 2021/22
    • Innovation and Consulting Exercise, GreenCreativity and Eco-Innovation, WS 2021/22
    • Innovation Research – Innovation and Ethics of Distributed Action in Digital Transformation, Summer Semester 2021
    • Innovation Research - Art, Design and Innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industries, Summer Semester 2021

    Publications

    • Diana Heinbucher (2023): Emerging Team Creativity: The Effect of Specific Knowledge Sharing on Shared Mental Models and Team Creativity. 4th ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability International Conference, 31.03.-02.04.2022, Nancy, France, Book of Abstracts, ARTEM OCC 2022 Edition, 68-69.
    • Diana Heinbucher (2023):Connecting Creativity Through Life Spans: A Systematic Literature Review of how Creative Competencies can be Sustained Through Adolescence and Into Adulthood. 4th ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability International Conference, 31.03.-02.04.2022, Nancy, France, Book of Abstracts, ARTEM OCC 2022 Edition, 99-100.
    • Anja Herrmann-Fankhänel & Diana Heinbucher (2023):Cultural and Creative Industries under Corona Circumstance in Chemnitz. 4th ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability International Conference, 31.03.-02.04.2022, Nancy, France, Book of Abstracts, ARTEM OCC 2022 Edition, 114-115.
    • Diana Heinbucher & Julien Bucher (2022): Team creativity: the interplay of shared mental models and the ideation process. International Journal of Technology Management 88(2/3/4), 175-204.
    • Diana Heinbucher & Julien Bucher (2020): How do shared mental models foster team creativity? A team level analysis of drivers of ideation in the team creativity process of innovation teams. 3rd ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability International Conference, 19.-21.03.2020, Chemnitz, Germany, Book of Abstracts, ARTEM OCC 2020 Edition, 75-77.

    Conference contributions and lectures

    • Diana Heinbucher (2024): Orchestrating Team Creativity: How Insights From Band Songwriting Enhance Team Innovation Processes. R&D Management Conference, 17-19 June 2024, Stockholm, Sweden.
    • Diana Heinbucher (2024): Orchestrating Team Creativity: Kreativprozesse von Innovations- und Songwritingteams. Future Music Camp - Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, 6-7 June 2024, Mannheim, Germany.
    • Diana Heinbucher (2023): Rooting Team Creativity: Influences to and from Knowledge Sharing. ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference - ENTRENOVA, 14-16 September 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
    • Diana Heinbucher (2023): Cross Innovation: Creative Processes in the Cultural and Creative Industries and their Benefits for Innovation Teams. 5th ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability International Conference, 7-8 September 2023, Durban, South Africa.
    • Diana Heinbucher (2023): Innovating together: What influences the willingness to share specific knowledge as a member of an innovation team?. 2023 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 23-27 July 2023, Monterrey, Mexico.
    • Diana Heinbucher & Prof. Dr. Stephan Sonnenburg (2023): Creativity Development Through Life Spans: A Systematic Literature Review Exploring how Creative Competences can be Fostered in Adolescence. Pablo de Olavide University, R&D Management Conference 2023, Responsible and Responsive Innovation for a Better Future, Sevilla, Spain, 19th-21st June 2023.
    • Diana Heinbucher & Dr. Julien Bucher (2023): Ideation, Team Creativity and Imagination. InnovationSpring, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 28th February 2023 Lviv, Ukraine.
    • Diana Heinbucher(2022): Gender, Design und Innovation. Grundlagen gendersensibler Innovationen. Im Rahmen der Vorlesungsreihe "Gender meets Technology: continuied, 8. Dezember 2022, Technische Universität Dresden, Deutschland.
    • Diana Heinbucher & Aline Fuß (2022): Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs und Prekarität. Umgang mit erlebten Herausforderungen durch und während den wissenschaftlichen Qualifikationsphasen. 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie Sektion Professionssoziologie: Wissenschaft als Beruf (re)visited, 26.-30. September 2022, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland.
    • Diana Heinbucher & Aline Fuß (2022): Doorkeeper Promotion? Ein- und Ausstiegspunkte in die Wissenschaft und die Rolle von Mentor:innen. DFG-Fachtagung Ursprungskonstellationen und Urszenen von Wissenschaftlerbiographien, 27.-28. Mai 2022, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland.
    • Diana Heinbucher & Aline Fuß (2022): Doorkeeper Promotion? Ein- und Ausstiegspunkte in die Wissenschaft und die Rolle von Mentor:innen. DTX research talk, 25. Mai 2022, Hochschule Bremen, Deutschland.
    • Diana Heinbucher (2022): Emerging Team Creativity: The Effect of Specific Knowledge Sharing on Shared Mental Models and Team Creativity. 4th ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability Internationl Conference, 31st March to 2nd April 2022, Nancy, France.
    • Diana Heinbucher (2022): Connecting Creativity Through Life Spans: A Systematic Literature Review of how Creative Competencies can be Sustained Through Adolescence and Into Adulthood.4th ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability Internationl Conference, 31st March to 2nd April 2022, Nancy, France.
    • Anja Herrmann-Fankhänel & Diana Heinbucher (2022): Culture and Creative Industries under Corona Circumstance in Chemnitz. 4th ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability Internationl Conference, 31st March to 2nd April 2022, Nancy, France.

    Education and professional career

    • Research Associate at the Chair of Innovation Research and Technology Management, TU Chemnitz, since April 2021
    • Project and process management at prozess.io GmbH, since July 2020
    • Project management Chemnitz Radio Play Island, since October 2012
    • Research Associate of the ESF Junior Research Group "Gender Shares in ESF Projects, Higher Education and Research", Centre for Teacher Education, GSD General Education, TU Chemnitz, since October 2020 - December 2022
    • Tutor for application projects in the Master's program "Management and Organization Studies" at the Chair of Innovation Research and Technology Management, April 2019 – December 2019
    • Research assistant at the Chair of Innovation Research and Technology Management, including in the projects: E-PISA, JointExpertise, AAE Summer School 2020, ARTRM OCC 2020 August 2018 - September 2020
    • Research assistant in the Open Engineering 2 project in the Competence Engineering department at the Chair of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Management at Chemnitz University of Technology, developing content for the course module "Digital Transformation", April 2018 - July 2018
    • Studied economics with a Master's degree in Management and Organisation Studies, TU Chemnitz, 2017 - 2020
    • Parental leave 2014 - 2015
    • Studied pedagogy with a focus on adult education and continuing education and a minor in psychology, TU Chemnitz, 2012 – 2017
    • Parental leave 2012 - 2012
    • Employee in administration and customer service of a local dance school 2009 - 2013
    • Employee in event management (full-service agency) 2008 - 2009
    • Training as an international event manager, EWS Leipzig, 2006 - 2009


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