George Licht
Economist at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
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Dr. George Licht is a Head of Research Department at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.
He is head of "Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics".
He has been holding this position since June 1994.
His research interests comprise the economics of innovation and technical change as well as the economics of small firms and entrepreneurship.
For years, he has been engaged in the development of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) and of innovation surveys in Germany in the manufacturing and service industries.
He is consultant to the OECD, the EU Commission and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the area of innovation and technology policy.
Before that, he was a senior researcher both at ZEW and the University of Augsburg.
He was visiting researcher at the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at various research institutes and universities in Europe.
He was a member of several expert panels in science and innovation policy.
He obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Augsburg and holds a degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg.
George Licht active positions
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches. | Economist | 1994-05-31 |
Training of George Licht
| University of Augsburg | Doctorate Degree |
| Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Undergraduate Degree |
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches. | Finance |
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