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Publications since 2010
Publications 2007 - 2009
Publications 2004 - 2006
Publications 1999 - 2003
Earlier Publications

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Michael Fritsch has received his degrees in economics (Diplom Volkswirt, Ph.D., Habilitation) from the Technical University of Berlin. From 1992-2006, he was a Professor of Economics and Chair of Economic Policy at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg. Since 2006, he is a Professor of Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Chair of Business Dynamics, Innovation, and Economic Change.

Further positions

• Research Professor at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (German Institute for Economic Research), Berlin.
• Research Professor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).
• Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Economics, Jena.
• Associate Editor of Small Business Economics - An Entrepreneurship Journal.

Main fields of research

• New business formation processes and their impact on economic development
• Innovation systems and innovation behavior
• Economic development strategies
• Markets and market failure

"My current research is focused on the effects of market dynamics and innovation activity on economic development. With regard to market dynamics, my main interest is in entrepreneurship, particularly the start-up of new businesses, their success and failure as well as their impact on the evolution of the respective industry and region. My innovation related research is centered on the division of innovative labor between different actors and the efficiency of innovation systems. The objective of my research is to get a better understanding of the effects that market dynamics and innovation processes have on economic welfare and to find out what policy could do in order to stimulate growth, on a regional as well as on a national level. A further field of interest is the operation mode of markets, the forms and causes of market failure, and the policy options for safeguarding satisfactory performance of market processes."