Information Management and Market Engineering - Vol. II

At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Graduate School InformationManagement and Market Engineering (IME) which is financed by the GermanResearch Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), offers an interdisciplinarydoctoral program on the economic, technological and legal design ofinstitutions, services, systems and business models for electronic markets. Theexpressed aim of the Graduate School is to endow its doctoral students with aprofound interdisciplinary understanding of electronic markets and informationmanagement that enables them to pursue an outstanding career in academia aswell as industry. Since its foundation in April 2004, sixteen graduates have verysuccessfully completed the doctoral program of the Graduate School and went onto become professors themselves or hold key management positions in the industrytoday, providing proof for the Graduate School’s success in achieving its aim....