Prof. Dr. Michael Fritsch

Current Status

Professor of Economics, Friedrich-Schiller Univ. of Jena
Chair of Business Dynamics, Innovation, and Economic Change		 Prof. Dr. Michael Fritsch (FSU)

Education

1972-1977 Master, Technical Univ. of Berlin (Economics)
1982 Ph.D., Technical Univ. of Berlin (Economics)
1989 Habilitation, Technical Univ. of Berlin (Economics)

Functions

1990-1993 Private Lecturer at the Technical Univ. Berlin (Economics and Business Administration)
1992-2006 Professor at the Technical Univ. Bergakademie Freiberg (Economics)
since 2011 Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin
since 2004 Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
since 2006 Chairman of Business Dynamics, Innovation, and Economic Change at the Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Jena

Research Topics

  • Innovation Systems and Innovational Behavior
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  • Development of Self-employment
  • New Business Formation Processes and Their Impact on Economic Development
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  • Markets and Market Failure
  • Determinants and Effects of Regional Long-term Influences
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    Recent Publications (selected)

  • (with Michael Wyrwich) The Long Persistence of Regional Levels of Entrepreneurship: Germany 1925 to 2005. Regional Studies, 48 (2014).
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  • (with Elisabeth Bublitz, Alina Sorgner and Michael Wyrwich) How Much of a Socialist Legacy? The Re-emergence of Entrepreneurship in the East German Transformation to a Market Economy. Forthcoming in Small Business Economics. DOI 10.1007/s11187-014-9544-x.
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  • (with Alina Rusakova) Self-Employment after Socialism: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital. International Journal of Developmental Science, 6 (2012), pp. 167–175.
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  • Entrepreneurship, Entry and Performance of New Businesses Compared in two Growth Regimes: East and West Germany. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 14 (2004), pp. 525-542.
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  • New Business Formation and Regional Development—A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 9 (2013), pp. 249–364.
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    A complete bibliography ist is available

    Contact

    Address FSU Jena, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3, 07743 Jena
    E-mail m.fritsch@uni-jena.de
    Webpage http://www.uiw.uni-jena.de/index.php/team/47