The Industrial Management and Information Systems (IMIS) Lab of the Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics Department aims to advance state-of-the-art approaches in the areas of Open Innovation, Digital Democracy, Big Data & Social Media Analytics, and Business Intelligence. Our work builds on the development and targeted exploitation of efficient knowledge graphs, which may facilitate the storage, representation and processing of (both explicit and tacit) knowledge in a direct and expandable way. Focus is given to the representation of knowledge extracted from either structured (e.g. tabular and matrix data) or unstructured data (e.g. media and textual data) to gain valuable insights and foster informed decision/policy making in diverse business environments.