Dipl.-Vw. Sarah Kösters
Curriculum vitae
| 2001 | Abitur at Städt. Gymnasium Kamen |
| 2001-2003 | Student of Business Administration/Intercultural Communication at the University of Jena |
| 2003-2004 | Student of Economics and French at the University of Aberdeen (UK) |
| 2004-2006 | Student of Economics at the University of Jena, Final Thesis "Umweltinnovationen in der Automobilindustrie - Determinanten der Genese und Diffusion am Beispiel der Brennstoffzellentechnik" (Eco-Innovation in the Automobile Industry - Determinants of their genesis and diffusion examining fuel cell technology) |
| since 2006 | Assistant at the Chair of Professor Dr. Uwe Cantner, Department of Economics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena |
Research interests
- Entrepreneurship
- Economics of Innovation
- Policy Evaluation
Working papers
- R & D Subsidies to Start-ups – Effective Drivers of Patent Activity and Employment Growth? (with U. Cantner), Jena Economic Research Papers, 2009-027, 2009.
- Subsidizing Start-ups: Policy Targeting and Policy Effectiveness, Jena Economic Research Papers, 2009-083, 2009.
- Picking the Winner? Empirical Evidence on the Targeting of R & D Subsidies to Start-ups (with U. Cantner), Jena Economic Research Papers, 2009-093, 2009.
Conferences and Workshops
- Technology Transfer Society’s Annual Meeting "The Entrepreneurial Enterprise", October 1-2, 2009, Greensboro (NC/USA).
- Universitŕ Bocconi – KITeS "Research and Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge-Based Economy", September 7-8, 2009, Milan.
- AFSE Thematic Meeting "Firms, Markets and Innovation", French Economic Association (AFSE), June 24-25, 2009, Sophia-Antipolis (France).
- Sixth European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics (EMAEE 2009), May 21-23, 2009, Jena.
- European Workshop on Entrepreneurship Policy "Analysing Measures in European Countries", April 27, 2009, Brussels.
- G-Forum, 12. G-Forum – Interdisziplinäre Jahreskonferenz zur Gründungsforschung, November 6-7, 2008, Dortmund.
- Jena Graduate School – Summer school "Economics of Innovative Change", August, 1-10, 2008, Jena.
- Implor - Turning Knowledge into practice. Getting More out of Public Investment in Innovation, October, 23-24, 2007, Berlin.
- Jena Graduate School – Summer school "Economics of Innovative Change", August, 1-10, 2007, Jena.