The new Research Training Group / Graduiertenkolleg 1411 "The Economics of Innovative Change" (Die Ökonomik des innovativen Wandels) will start by October 1, 2006 at the Department of Economics of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena. The program is funded by the German Science Foundation. It offers top level graduated students the opportunity to achieve a doctoral degree (PhD) in economics.
The Research Training Group offers:
12 scholarships for doctoral students (duration of 2+1 years) with a background in economics and business administration
2 scholarships for post-docs (duration of 2 years) one position with a background in experimental and empirical economics and one position with a background in economics of innovation.
The Research Training Group "The Economics of Innovative Change" will address unresolved questions and problems concerning the economic dynamics of firms, markets, sectors and regions with an analytical focus on the endogenous driving forces mainly understood as the activities of invention and innovation. The variety of topics that is dealt with covers the foundations of individual behaviour and the economic and institutional environment, the generation of innovations together with the organizational forms of activities of invention and innovations, the change of the sectoral structures caused by innovations, the role of the demand side in this context, as well as the political management of change.
The scholarship positions require a permanent and active participation in the study and the research program of the research training group. Therefore all scholarship holders are expected to choose Jena as their place of residence.
Applications should include
CV, copy of diploma, BA, MA certificate, copy of diploma or master thesis, writing sample (about 10 pages), 2 reference letters from academic teachers, 1 page statement on the expected benefit from participating in the program; the application form: visit our homepage http://www.wiwi.uni-jena.de/Mikro/gk-eic.html, download, fill in and return to us;
and be mailed to the spokesman of the Research Training Group, preferably by August 30, 2006:
Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Department of Economics
Carl-Zeiß-Str. 3
D-07743 Jena
e-mail: uwe.cantner@wiwi.uni-jena.de
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