The FINDER research scope spans industries and job functions, candidates synthesized complex information and approached problems in a manner that can be transferred to both academics and practitioners. FINDER’s curriculum prepared students to drive change at the vanguard of business and technology by challenging them to consider multiple perspectives and to create innovative solutions to problems in such a way that they are not only profitable to business but also relevant and responsible towards society at large.
FINDER accommodated 4 high caliber PhD positions, facilitating first class PhD-training, and first class in-company training at the crossroads of Fintech academia and business. They investigated the innovative collaborative arrangement amongst organizations –grassroots, incumbents and the wider society– as they inclusively explored digital technology for new product or market development.
Track 1 continued ethnographic research provides insights that non-academics have commented on as important to the field, with a closeness to data not often seen in this discipline. The material outcomes of this includes i.a. published and future journal and conference publications.
Track 3 provides understanding how companies survive and adapt to major turbulence. Crucial for strategic management scholarship’s understanding as it focuses on the characteristics of alternative business models in digital ecosystems;FinTechs. The material outcomes of this includes i.a. journal and conference publications.
Track 4, particular to the employed methodology, while amassing a dataset of CEO M&A announcements, provides a baseline for further analysis for published and future academic and white paper submissions.
Track 5 provides a different lens on the social aspect of interorganizational relationships re how the VCs’ reputation interplays with their funding targets’ performance. The material outcomes of this will continue and includes a.i. published and future journal + conference publications.
The FINDER eBook has been co-created by the ESRs in collaboration with their academic and industrial supervisors. Breaking new grounds on research on collaborative Fintech at large, this book provides guidelines and best practices that emerged these past years, all centered around the ambition to Foster Innovation Networks in a Digital Era. It combines scholarly stringency with practical relevance.
The Finder initiative has proven to be a great way to add an academic research perspective to Atos’ existing Fintech Engagement Program, allowing a scientific perspective on 5 Fintech research tracks. This thought leadership has allowed for a different approach and positioning in the market and leads to new ways to engage their customers, their Fintech eco-system and team up concretely with four associated world top 150 universities: Radboud University, Vrije University Amsterdam, University of Groningen, Warwick and KU Leuven.
