Innovative Solutions with Idea Mining
A workshop offered by Transfer Center enaCom
Creativity is a relevant skill that benefits researchers, future specialists and managers across all industries. In everyday (scientific) work, a strong thematic focus can lead to ‘professional tunnel vision’, which prevents new and non-obvious aspects and potential innovations from being included
In-person Workshop
Thursday, September 4, 2025
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Trainer
Dr. Florentin Schmidt and Christina Qaim
Language
English
Location
Alte Sternwarte
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47*
Target Group
Doctoral students and postdocs
Track(s)
Business and Organizations
Certificate
8 units are applicable within the Doctorate plus or Careers plus certificate
* The premises are not barrier-free. Please contact the Bonn Graduate Center if you need assistance.
Description
In this workshop, you will learn to break through habitual thought patterns, develop creative ideas that create impact and approach problems unconventionally. As part of ‘idea mining’, we introduce creative techniques that free you from habitual thought patterns and open up new perspectives (‘get rid of the box’).
In the workshop, we will go through the process of idea mining as a creative tool for innovation management together in interdisciplinary teams using a real example from science. A mix of different creative techniques will be used and the resulting ideas will then be analysed in terms of their usefulness and feasibility.
Idea mining was conceived by experts at the University of Münster and has since been successfully applied in more than 200 workshops in science, society and business. Typical applications range from interdisciplinary research collaboration to product and strategy development and marketing.
Content
- Getting to know idea mining using various creative tools with a real scientific example (topic: sustainability)
- Personal soft skills development
Contact
Transfer Center enaCom
Dr. Florentin Schmidt
+49 228 73-6504
schmidtf@verwaltung.uni-bonn.de
Address
Brühler Str. 7
53119 Bonn
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Links
- https://www.uni-bonn.de/de/forschung-lehre/transfercenter-enacom/veranstaltungen/anmeldungen/sommersemester-2025-bgz/registration_idea-mining_09_25
- https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/doctoral-students-and-postdocs/during-your-doctorate/qualification/doctorate-plus/research-all
- https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/doctoral-students-and-postdocs/during-your-doctorate/qualification/doctorate-plus/research-management-all
- https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/doctoral-students-and-postdocs/during-your-doctorate/qualification/doctorate-plus/business-organizations-all
- https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/doctoral-students-and-postdocs/during-your-doctorate/qualification/certificate-doctorate-plus
- https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/doctoral-students-and-postdocs/during-your-doctorate/qualification/doctorate-plus-1
- https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/doctoral-students-and-postdocs/events-and-opportunities/newsletter-bonn-doctoral-bulletin-en