Thomas, tell us a bit about yourself: What is your background and what do you research on?

My research background is in entrepreneurship and stakeholder communication, where I studied how different media and modes of communication shape feedback processes in new venture ideation. My ongoing research remains within this domain: Broadly, I am interested in how entrepreneurs communicate using all kinds of media and modes and how that shapes different aspects of how new organizations emerge. Last year, I have started my own business together with a friend of mine (if you like bicycles, check out www.grepp.cc) and the experiences support my previous hunch that communication is an critical dimension in entrepreneurship that so far has received only limited research attention.Read More

Cathrin, tell us a bit about yourself: What is your background and what do you research on?

I am an Assistant Professor for Digital Media Industries at Aarhus University’s Media and Journalism Department. My research currently focuses on national and EU media policy, regarding PSM and the regulation of the VoD market. In September, I started a 2.5 year research project on the European VoD market funded by the Aarhus University Research Fund. The project investigates the role the media-systemic traditions and media ecology play in the way local players respond to the competition from US-based global VoDs. The markets I will focus on are Denmark, Germany and Estonia.Read More

An interview with Emmet Coffey, Lecturer at the Department of Media Communications MTU, Cork. Conducted by Niall O Leary, MTU

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The recipe for success: Understand your business, know your technology and be creative

An interview with Elina Kukkonen, SVP Communications and Brand at Alma Media Corporation, Finland. Conducted by Päivi Maijanen, LUT University

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In Ilmenau, there is a unique cooperation of different actors to strengthen the start-up climate at and around the Technische Universität  Ilmenau. In addition to the Ilmkubator project at Technische Universität Ilmenau, the technology and start-up center (TGZ) as well as Gründerforum Ilmenau e.V. support those interested in starting a business on site. In 1991, technology and start-up center (TGZ) was founded with Ilm-Kreis and the city of Ilmenau as shareholders. Rüdiger Horn manages the TGZ Ilmenau, Laura Martin is responsible for public relations and event organization at Ilmkubator. An interview conducted by Britta Gossel: Read More

Post written by: Niall O’Leary

On Friday, September 10, 2021 the Hincks Centre hosted our online workshop as part of the Horizon 2020 funded ScreenME-net project. The goal of the workshop was to develop the team’s expertise and knowledge in screen media networking and the role of universities in supporting screen media entrepreneurship.Read More

Post written by: Jonas Weber

June 21st & 22nd 2021, the fourth workshop of the ScreenMe-Network took place, organized by Technische Universität Ilmenau. Aim of this workshop was to deduce and develop questions how researchers can network with Screen Media Entrepreneurs and in which way they can be supported through different institutions as universities, incubators, or accelerators. Several guest speakers gave insights in their work and their perspective of actual or future developments in the field of Screen Media Entrepreneurship.Read More

Post written by: Heritiana Ranaivoson

On June 4, the 3^rd ScreenME-Net online workshop took place, organized by imec-SMIT (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and open to all project partners. The objective was to identify common research priorities and methods. An emphasis was put on how such research priorities and methods can inform policy-makers. In such endeavor, we could benefit from the outcomes of the two previous workshops organized respectively by LUT School of Business and Management and Jönköping International Business School, and by Aarhus University; and from the outcomes of the VUB Symposium on Netflix’s development and current positioning in the EU organized on June 3. Read More

The latest workshop on May 19-20 was arranged by members of the ScreenMe consortium from Aarhus University: Mads Møller Tommerup Andersen, Jakob Isak Nielsen and Hanne Bruun. During this two-day workshop, almost 20 European researchers introduced ideas and interest around research of screen media entrepreneurship and trends in media industries and society. From these briefs raised possible paths that the diverse ScreenME network as a research and knowledge hub could lean towards in future.

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The quote by Jukka Niva well expresses the challenges and beauty of the networked society. It, as concluded at the ScreenME-Net workshop on industry-academia collaboration May 11-12, is one of the themes that media scholars should address with their research. The journalists claimed that traditional ways of creating content are not applicable to the  bottom-up social movements, where it is often unclear who is responsible and whom to turn to for the credible information.Read More