(February 2008))

General: Born October 12, 1951 in Berlin (West); married.

Education and Career:

    1958-1972  School in Berlin (West), Germany

    1972-1977  Study of Economics at the Technical University (TU) of Berlin. Master in Economics (Di­plom-Volks­wirt)

    1977-1978  Research Fellow (part-time) at the Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum) Berlin, European Regional Policy Unit.

    1978-1982  Research Assistant at the TU Berlin, Institute of Economics (1978-1980: Chair of Macroeconomics, Prof. Dr. Juergen Kromphardt; 1980-1982: Chair of Economic Policy, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Ewers)

    1982          Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in Economics (Dr. rer.oec.) at the TU Berlin, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    1989          Habilitation in Economics (Volkswirtschaftslehre) at the TU-Berlin, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    1983-1990  -  Researcher for various projects at the TU Berlin and at the Science Center Berlin

                    -  Lecturer at the TU Berlin, Institute of Economics, and at the Academy of Business and Administration (Verwaltungsakademie) Berlin

    1986-1994  Research Associate at the "In­sti­tut für Stadt­forschung und Struktur­poli­tik GmbH", Ber­lin; since 1990 "Gesellschaft für Innovationsberatung mbH", Berlin.

    1990-1993  Private lecturer (Privatdozent) at the TU Berlin, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

  1990-1992  Interim Chair of Economic Policy at the TU Berlin, Institute of Economics

    1992-2006  Full Professor of Economics, Chair of Economic Policy at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    1994-2003  Managing Director of the Research Unit “Economics of Innovation“ (Forschungsstelle Innovationsökonomik) at the TU Bergakademie Frei­berg (a joint research institute of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the Fraun­hofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, ISI-Karlsruhe)

   Spring 1995 Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (USA), Department of Social and Decision Sciences

   Spring 2000 Ameritech Research Fellow, Indiana University, Bloomington (USA), Institute for Development Strategies

    2000-2004  Chairman of the Section Regional Economics of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik)

    Since 2001  Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, DIW), Berlin

    Since 2001  Member of the Editorial Board of Small Business Economics -
                    An International Journal

    2002          Offer to become Chair of Macroeconomics and Regional Sciences at the Technical University of Dresden – declined

    Since 2004 Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

    Since 2006 Full Professor of Economics, Chair of Business Dynamics, Innovation, and Economic Change at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    Since 2007 - Associate Editor of Small Business Economics – An International Journal.
- Member of the DIME-Network.
- Member of the Collaborative Research Center 580 “Social Developments
  after Structural Change - Discontinuity, Tradition, Structural Formation”,
  Jena and Halle, Germany.