Welcome to the Chair of Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Chair of Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship investigates digital user experiences, innovation, and business models with the goal of better understanding and helping to shape the impact of technological change on individuals, organizations, and our society.
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We are delighted to be working with the Deloitte Foundation to select and support two particularly committed and talented computer science students as scholarship recipients. Congratulations to Mohamed Challou and Mohammad Sharabati!
As a social mentor, the Deloitte-Stiftung is committed to promoting educational equality and breaking down social barriers. With its study scholarships, it supports students who excel in innovation, entrepreneurial thinking, and social engagement, especially first-generation academics and people from families with little access to higher education. In addition to financial support of 500€ per month for a period of twelve months, the program also includes professional and personal development opportunities, mentoring by Deloitte professionals, and exchange within the foundation's talent community.
Together with the Deloitte Foundation, our department was actively involved in the selection process and conducted interviews with the applicants. We are delighted that two such motivated and high-achieving students from our department have been selected. Both have excellent academic records, show initiative and curiosity about innovative ideas, digital transformation, and entrepreneurial activity and will benefit greatly from the scholarship both professionally and personally. We look forward to further exchanges and spending time together during the scholarship year.
Mohamed Challou
I am studying computer science at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. I am particularly interested in topics at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and process automation, in other words, how modern technologies can help make workflows more efficient and intelligent. As part of the scholarship, I am looking forward to interacting with inspiring personalities, gaining exciting insights into different professional fields, and developing both personally and professionally together with my mentor.
Mohammad Sharabati
I am studying computer science in the master's programm and psychology in the bachelor's programm. I am fascinated by how digital technologies and AI can be used in medicine to improve diagnoses and treatments. I find it particularly exciting to see how AI-supported software, for example in clinical decision support systems, can be designed in such a way that it really supports doctors and makes healthcare more efficient overall. The Deloitte Foundation scholarship is a great opportunity for me to exchange ideas with motivated people from different fields and take away new ideas. I am looking forward to gaining a better understanding of how innovative digital health solutions can be implemented in practice through mentoring and insight into economic perspectives!
We had the pleasure of participating in the 20th International Conference WI2025 in beautiful Münster, which took place from September 13–17. On Tuesday, Sumin Kim gave a presentation, while Prof. Steffi Haag participated in several events and also organized the WI Women's Lunch to inspire many young female researchers in the field of business informatics.
We are also very pleased to announce that our paper “Gender Bias in LLMs for Digital Innovation: Disparities and Fairness Concerns” will be published in the WI2025 proceedings.
For more information, please visit our DigInnen project.
We are pleased to share our new paper published in Computers & Security:
“Informal control responses to information security policy violations: A factorial survey on insurance employees’ moral licensing of insider threats”
Together with Nils Siegfried and Nane Winkler, we examined why employees may tolerate information security policy (ISP) violations—particularly when colleagues are highly competent, have a spotless record, hold higher status, or when the violation seems to benefit the team.
Our results show that informal controls can both help reduce insider threats and unintentionally reinforce them if cognitive biases are not addressed.
For researchers, the study offers insights into moral licensing in security contexts.
For practitioners, it highlights the importance of aligning policies with organizational goals, engaging influential employees, and providing training to strengthen informal controls and encourage employees to address violations.
Read more here (open access): https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0167-4048(25)00264-0
