The Vodafone Foundation for Research (Vodafone-Stiftung für Forschung im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft) has awarded its Fritz-Joussen-Award for Market- and Customer Orientation 2015 to Prof. Dr. Stephan Daurer.

The price was awarded for the research work Location-based Services and Consumer Search on the Mobile Internet. This research investigates the impact of smartphones on consumer behavior and how companies are able to leverage techologies in the domain of telecommunication and digital media. Further information on these findings can be found here.

The Vodafone Foundation supports the academic developments in mobile communication through yearly granted innovation and research awards.

Jens-Schulte-Bockum (Vodafone CEO), Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Caire (TU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Stephan Daurer (DHBW Ravensburg), Dr.-Ing. Alexander Zeh (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa), Michael Müller (Governing Mayor of Berlin)

 

Press release Vodafone: https://www.vodafone.de/unternehmen/presse/pressearchiv2015-298661.html

Press release Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute: http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/en/presse-medien/news/wirtschaft-trifft-wissenschaft-vodafone-innovationspreis-2015-an-prof-giuseppe-caire-verliehen.html

Further information: http://vodafone-stiftung-fuer-forschung.de/preistraeger/2015/f.html