GSBC EIC
The Economics of Innovative Change
GSBC EIC
The Economics of Innovative Change
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The DFG Research Training Group 1411 "The Economics of Innovative Change" is a distinguished PhD programme in Economics, jointly offered by the Department of Economics of the Friedrich Schiller University and the Max Planck Institute of Economics, both in Jena, Germany. We offer a comprehensive PhD-level training to 40 outstanding young graduates. The programme is international and highly committed to quality in teaching and research. All academic activities of the PhD programme are conducted in English.
The PhD group hosts doctoral candidates from the Max Planck Intistute of Economics and from the Friedrich Schiller University. Additionally, highly competitive scholarships sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) are awarded to 12 selected PhD candidates. The PhD students are expected to complete their PhD projects within 3 years. The first year is devoted to improving the theoretical knowledge and competences, while the second and the third year concentrate on the dissertation-related research. The programme offers a 2-week summer school each year, and for the second or third year a research-stay at a partner university abroad for about three months. The programme serves as a platform for collaboration, as a facilitator of joint scientific activities, and as a forum for knowledge exchange. It also provides senior expertise for junior research training in all necessary areas of competence: thematic, methodological, and transferable skills such as networking, scientific management, time management, and career planning.
Allowing for a broad concept of "innovation" we address a wide range of topics: industrial dynamics; entrepreneurship; innovation decisions and behaviour; competition, cooperation and strategic interaction in innovation; innovation in the development of consumption and consumer behaviour; human capital, skills and employment; innovation and regional development; innovation and economic dynamics of developing countries; energy, environment and innovation; innovation policy, and innovation management. The analytical approaches we pursue range from theoretical and empirical modeling, game theory, simulation analysis to experimental economics.
Through methodological and theoretical courses the programme deepens the capabilities of our PhD students to conduct a world-class research in economics. The courses are proposed both by the faculty and by the PhD students. Here you find an overview of our current and past courses.
Wednesdays are seminar days. Our PhD students are welcome to invite distinguished scholars from all over the world to present their current work and discuss it with the group. At least once a year the PhD students present their own dissertation progress. Their work is then discussed and refereed by peers and senior researchers. Please visit our calender with external-guest seminars and PhD-student seminars.
The PhD group shares the capabilities, the resources, and the facilities of the University in Jena and the Max Planck Institute of Economics. Additionally it is integrated in an environment of related graduate programmes in social sciences. The Graduate Academy is further dedicated to supporting PhD students with additional advice, courses, and financial aid.
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News
In a forthcoming publication in Small Business Economics, Uwe Cantner and Sara Kösters investigate the characteristics of the start-ups that manage to receive R&D subsidies. Uwe Cantner, Jens Krüger, and René Söllner, investigate the relationship between product fitness and market success on the car market in a forthcoming publication in Industrial and Corporate Change. Read more
Sebastian Wilfling won the “Bent Dalum PhD Award” for the most innovative and promising research project at the 2012 Druid-DIME Academy Conference in Cambridge, UK. Read more
Mili Shrivastava received the Kauffman Foundation best paper award at the 2011 Academy of Management Conference for her paper “Entrepreneurial Teams, Optimal Team Size, and Founder Exits” co-authored with Dr J Pawan Tamvada. Read more
On the evening of the 25th of November (Friday), the GSBC-EIC presents itself at the Long Night of Science in Jena with one musical and one experiment. We welcome audience for the musical and families with children for the experiment. Read more
The partner program of the GSBC-EIC, IMPRS Uncertainty, was evaluated on the 15th of November. The auditors were quite positive and the IMPRS braces itself to prepare a project proposal for the next few years. The coordination of the IMPRS will move from Werner Güth (MPI Jena) to Christoph Engel (MPI Bonn) and Oliver Kirchkamp (Uni Jena).
In the forthcoming publication in Experimental Economics "Decomposing Desert and Tangibility Effects in a Charitable Giving Experiment," Gerhard Riener together with David Reinstein from the University of Essex investigate the effects of using less or more tangible money. Read more
The Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economic Sciences took place for the 4th time this August, in Lindau, Germany. Around 370 young economists from all over the World were selected in a global competition to exchange ideas with 17 Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences. Read more
At the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Ifo Institute, the Association for Promotion of Economic Research (Freunde des ifo Instituts) awarded the prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of empirical economic research to Stefan Bauernschuster (GSBC-EIC) for his article "Mandatory Sick Pay Commission: A Labor Market Experiment". Read more
The 2011 Alumni Jenenses Dissertation Prize was awarded to Florian Noseleit for his dissertation "The Role of Entrepreneurship for Regional Growth and Structural Change" supervised by Michael Fritsch. Read more
From July 24th until August 21st Jena will host a number of leading economists and 70 PhD candidates from all around the world. The Summer Academy is jointly organized by Research Traning Group "The Economics of Innovative Change" and the International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (IMPRS-Uncertainty). To see the comprehensive programme of the Summer Academy please visit Summer Academy 2011.
Otto-Hahn-Medal 2010 of the Max Planck Society was awarded to Vera Angelova Popova, for her thesis on Experiments on Cooperation and Markets with Asymmetric Information (under supervision of Oliver Kirchkamp). The dissertation explores theoretically and experimentally four research questions that relate to the topics of cooperation and markets with asymmetric information. Read more
The paper Skill shortage and skill redundancy: Asymmetry in the Transferability of Skills by Ljubica Nedelkoska (GSBC-EIC) and Frank Neffke (Erasmus School of Economics, Rot-terdam) won the Best Young Scholar Paper Award at the final conference of the European Network of Excellence DIME, held in Maastricht 6th-8th of April 2011. Read more