The research project OSCAR asks how institutions of higher education organize their spatial development in an increasingly urban, creative and entrepreneurial society. Apart from pointing out and quantifying universities as places of education and consumption, the project team zooms in on how universities serve society as places of encounter, critical reflection and creativity. From this later perspective, universities have been described as third spaces, laboratories and heterotopias. It is this emerging and interdisciplinary stream of research that the proposed project seeks to contribute to, by developing a decidedly processual and spatio-aesthetic perspective. Drawing on the concepts of heterotopic space and affective atmospheres the research team seeks to understand how creativity and reflexivity emerge from encounters on and off campus.
Tracing practices of university development through approximately five ethnographic case studies, the project aims to understand, systematize and reflect established and emerging interspaces between university and society. The project follows the everyday practices of university life and traces how it intermingles the in- and outsides of university space. In particular, the research will focus on exploring new and experimental ways of creating encounters between the university and its economic, cultural and societal context. The project will publish its findings in both the context of the academic discourse on what has been addressed as the university's "third mission" and within the local practical context of the University of Liechtenstein. It thus seeks to inform the future practices of universities in general and the University of Liechtenstein, the Principality of Liechtenstein and its citizens in particular.

Project results:

I am particularly interested in examining existing and developing new strategies that involve the user in spatial planning developments. It is not a matter of understanding the layperson as an expert, but of examining where the highest potential of users lies in planning processes. I will examine three interrelated questions:

How can the intuitive knowledge and sensitivities of a diverse group (e.g. residents of a community, user of public space) be made visible and operatable concerning their spatial surroundings?

What formats allow laypeople to be involved in creative spatial planning processes?

What role does such user involvement play in political processes (e.g. initiatives, referendums)?

Current and historical examples of participatory planning processes from different cultural areas are collected, examined and systematized. In the sense of Lucius Burckhardt's question "Who plans the planning?", The various stakeholders in the spatial planning process are analyzed using at least one municipality as a case study. The analysis takes place on various scales: at the district, municipality, state and regional level (e.g. energy city label, OEBB) up to influences of global scales (transnational institutions, social trends and technological developments). Based on spatial planning examples of various sizes, I will work out the points of contact of the stakeholders and show the potential for participation. On this basis, workshops with various stakeholders are developed and carried out in an experimental part to gain empirical knowledge.

I am particularly interested in examining existing and developing new strategies that involve the user in spatial planning developments. It is not a matter of understanding the layperson as an expert, but of examining where the highest potential of users lies in planning processes. I will examine three interrelated questions:

How can the intuitive knowledge and sensitivities of a diverse group (e.g. residents of a community, user of public space) be made visible and operatable concerning their spatial surroundings?

What formats allow laypeople to be involved in creative spatial planning processes?

What role does such user involvement play in political processes (e.g. initiatives, referendums)?

Current and historical examples of participatory planning processes from different cultural areas are collected, examined and systematized. In the sense of Lucius Burckhardt's question "Who plans the planning?", The various stakeholders in the spatial planning process are analyzed using at least one municipality as a case study. The analysis takes place on various scales: at the district, municipality, state and regional level (e.g. energy city label, OEBB) up to influences of global scales (transnational institutions, social trends and technological developments). Based on spatial planning examples of various sizes, I will work out the points of contact of the stakeholders and show the potential for participation. On this basis, workshops with various stakeholders are developed and carried out in an experimental part to gain empirical knowledge.

This project, in combination with an already existing project, aims to develop a new hybrid ap-proach to university offerings. The idea is to continue to teach the program with (some) students present at the university, but at the same time to offer this program live to remote participants without any loss of quality on either side, especially by solving the problem of reduced interaction. This will be achieved in particular through the development of training materials as well as through measures related to technology, communication, and examination modes. Another focus is on researching problems and developing solutions that might arise specifically for the use case at the University of Liechtenstein.

This research project presents itself a comprehensive work being conducted within the process of obtaining a Doctoral Degree at the University of Liechtenstein and investigates research findings with respect to knowledge governance (KG), a research area which just recently gained increasing attention in management and scientific literature.
This dissertation aims at augmentation and qualitative enrichment of the research field of knowledge governance. The purpose is to provide a better understanding of the topic, to bring fresh insides by clarifying and theoretically and empirically examining the discussed phenomenon. Due to KG being a relatively new and not yet fully established research area, the overall research question of this dissertation is to analyse how far the research on KG has developed and what needs to be done in order to make KG a valuable separate research field.

The primary purpose of this doctoral study is to analyse, clarify, understand and empirically test the nature of knowledge governance, especially some of its aspects, with the focus on companies that provide knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). In particular, to figure out how a good designed knowledge governance in KIBS companies influences their knowledge management improvement. The focus will be made on three aspects: knowledge resources assurance, critical moments and factors of knowledge workers motivation and knowledge at risk with established instruments for its governance.

Das Ziel der Studie ist es Wissen zu den Erwartungen, Einstellungen, Erfahrungen von 16 bis 25-Jährigen in Liechtenstein zu erlangen. Dabei kommen im Sinne einer Sozialberichterstattung junge Menschen zu Wort, sie geben Einblick in ihre vielfältigen Lebenswelten, Ansichten und sprechen über ihre Zukunftsvorstellungen. Bislang fehlt solches Wissen in Liechtenstein. Die Ergebnisse der Studie sollen in der Öffentlichkeit diskutiert werden und gesellschaftspolitische Weichenstellungen ermöglichen.
Die Anlage ist zweiteilig: Anhand einer Online-Befragung wird ein thematisch breiter Einblick in die unterschiedlichen Lebenswirklichkeiten der jungen Menschen in Liechtenstein möglich, ehe im zweiten qualitativen Forschungsteil, abhängig von der Auswertung der standardisierten Fragebögen, spezifische Themen der lokalen Jungen vertieft analysiert werden. Das erlangte Wissen ermöglicht es, jugend- und lokalspezifische Lebenswelten zu deuten, zu verstehen und in einen breiteren gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhang zu stellen.

Design Science Research (DSR) is a highly context-dependent and iterative process (vom Brocke et al., 2020) and the often unique design process represents the actual strategy of inquiry used to deliver design knowledge within DSR projects. Thus, the design process is highly relevant for fellow researchers and should be described and shared with other researchers and practitioners (Lukyanenko & Parsons, 2020; vom Brocke et al., 2021). Recently, the importance of research transparency was discussed in an editorial of the Management Information Systems Quarterly (Burton-Jones et al., 2021) and also in a panel discussion with senior scholars at the latest De-sign Science Research Conference (DESRIST2021).
Though, compared to other fields there is less tool support for design science researchers avail-able (vom Brocke et al., 2017). In qualitative research, for instance, researchers are following specific procedures and are required to document clearly the chain of evidence and report on criteria like intercoder-reliability (Miles et al., 2019). Furthermore, the use of coding tools are de facto standards in this type of research. They support qualitative researchers in conducting their research and reporting the results of their study. Moreover, editors and reviewers might ask for coding examples or further research that can benefit from these resources to better understand and extend on existing studies. Recently, in the field of Design Science Research (DSR) tool sup-port to structure, document, maintain, and present research processes has been proposed. Such tools aim to increase collaboration, traceability, and quality of research methods used in DSR (vom Brocke et al., 2017).
In this research project, we follow the design science research principles proposed by Kuechler and Vashnavi (Kuechler & Vaishnavi, 2008) and we want to design and implement a system that allows researchers to manage their research processes and their activities. Therefore, we plan to provide a collaborative research method modeling system to describe the core methods in the field of IS first. In the next step, we are going to design and implement a research process transparency system that supports researchers to instantiate the reference models to docu-ment and describe research processes and share them with their peers. We plan to evaluate the implemented artefact and the according design principles in a lab experiment and a field study with DSR novices.

Die Arbeiten beschäftigen sich mit dem Kern des Europäischen Vermögensverwaltungsrechts, als Maxime, die bei der Gestaltung Liechtensteinischen Rechts zu beachten ist, weil sie nicht nur Kosten erzeugt, sondern auch Marktchancen eröffnet. So gibt es im UCITSG, AIFMG, dem VVG und dem Bankengesetz einen gemeinsamen Wertungskern, der als Grundlage für Skalenökonomien genutzt werden kann und bei den für Liechtenstein typischen kleineren Einheiten Einsparungen ermöglicht.

Ever since the "Vision Rheintal" process started in the Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg in 2001 the goal of urban densification began to gain in significance and resulted in a number of reforms of the planning system. But, as Charmes and Keil (2015) argued, densification cannot be seen as a uniform policy with uniform outcomes. Therefore, they argued, different "densification regimes" have to be considered. The sociospatial aspect of densification regimes is the main focus of this dissertation, which is investigated through a mixed-method research design to answer the research question "Which densification regimes can be identified in the Alpine Rhine Valley and what are their socio-spatial impacts?" The first step of the analysis inclues a multivariate statistical analysis of small-scale statistical census data to identify different quantitative "densification regimes" and the sociological and morphological changes they imply as a result of densification policies. In a second step five different cases as representatives of the "densification regimes" will be analysed with qualitative methods (interviews, document analysis) to gain more insight in the governance processes which are behind the "densification regimes". Policy recommendations will be derived from the analysis.