As a research assistant at the European Project Center and Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Robert Philipp successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Smart Seaports as Innovation Drivers for Blue Growth" in a virtual panel discussion on March 17, 2021.
1. supervisor: Prof. Dr. math. Gunnar Klaus Prause, Department of Business Administration, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
2nd Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Kai Neumann, Wismar Business School, University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business and Design, Wismar, Germany
Opponents:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.. Hans-Dietrich Haasis, Chair of Maritime Economics and Logistics, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Lauri Ojala, Chair of Logistics, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
The European Project Center (EPC) and the team are pleased that empirical results have been successfully scientifically exploited within the framework of the project "Connect2SmallPorts" (Southern Baltic Interreg Program 2014-2020), which was led and conceptualized by the EPC, and that we can register new expertise in the field of small and medium-sized ports.
Robert Philipp is the fourth PhD economist in Prof. Dr. Gunnar Prause's team, alongside Kristina Hunke, Anatoli Beifert and Laima Gerlitz. All of the young scientists were able to complete their doctorates at Tallinn Technical University in a cumulative process (publication of individual scientific articles in the listed journals) as part of a cooperation with Tallinn Technical University.