A new doctoral program in economics (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1411) 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 general topic is : "The Economics of Innovative Change".

The program is funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and offers to top level graduated students the opportunity to achieve a doctoral degree (PhD) in economics. The program is designed for three years. The first year will be more devoted to improve theoretical knowledge and methodological competences, the second year will concentrate on the dissertation research and third year is meant to complete the PhD thesis. The program offers a summer school each year and for the second or third year a visiting research stay at a partner university abroad for about three months.

Major research fields covered

A1 Generating Innovations

• Innovative behavior and decision making
• Patterns and forms of innovative activities

A3 Effects of Innovative Change

• Allocative and distributive effects
• Political and institutional dimensions

A2 Dynamics and Patterns of Innovative Change

• Economic and innovative dynamics of sectoral structures
• Innovative Change, increasing product variety and demand

B Methodological Extensions

Teaching staff
Department of Economics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (FSU) / Max-Planck-Institute of Economics Jena (MPI):

• Dorothea Alewell (FSU)
• Uwe Cantner (FSU)
• Oliver Kirchkamp (FSU)
• David Audretsch (MPI)
• Andreas Freytag (FSU)
• Jens Krüger (FSU)
• Thomas Brenner (MPI)
• Werner Güth (MPI)
• Ulrich Witt (MPI)
• Hans-Walter Lorenz (FSU) (assoc.)

Positions for PhD-students and Post-Docs

The Research Training Group offers 12 scholarships for doctoral students with the duration of 2+1 years each. In addition two post-doc positions with a 2-year-stipend are offered. For more information on this, on the application procedure and on the new program in general please see file attached to this page or visit our homepage.

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write to the spokesman of the Research Training Group
Professor 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