Timo Böttcher

About

Timo Böttcher leads a research group on digital business models and sustainability at the Krcmar Lab, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He holds a doctoral degree as well as a Master’s degree from TUM in Information Systems. His research interests particularly focus on digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, and business models in the circular economy. His research results have already been published in leading journals (e.g., Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems) and at international conferences (e.g., ECIS, HICSS, AMCIS, PACIS) and honored with Best Paper Awards. He was a visiting researcher at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and currently is an associated researcher at the Weizenbaum institute in Berlin as well as an active member of the CirculaTUM initiative.

About Umweltinstitut

The Umweltinstitut München e.V. is a registered association with the aim of "researching and reducing environmental pollution". The Environmental Institute was founded in 1986 after the reactor disaster in Chernobyl. A group of scientists and committed citizens from Munich and the surrounding area founded the association at that time in order to be able to carry out independent measurements of radioactive contamination and provide the unsettled population with independent and reliable information. The local initiative from back then has long since become a professional environmental organization that is successfully involved in German and European environmental policy. In addition to the founding topic of radioactivity, today the Environmental Institute deals with the topics of climate protection and energy transition and is committed to organic farming and consumer protection. It pursues its goals through research and monitoring, public relations work, environmental education and campaigns aimed at influencing political decisions in the environmental field. The Environmental Institute is independent of political parties and is recognized as a non-profit organization. The association is mainly financed by donations and the contributions of around 12,000 supporting members.