Andreas Pyka

Andreas Pyka studied Economics and Management Sciences at the University of Augsburg. He graduated in Economics in 1998 and spent about two years as a Post Doc in Grenoble, France participating an European research project on innovation networks. Following the Post Doc he worked as an assistant professor at the chair of Prof. Dr. Horst Hanusch at the University of Augsburg. His fields of research are Neo-Schumpeterian Economics and Evolutionary Economics with a special emphasis on numerical techniques of analysing dynamic processes of qualitative change and structural development. From October 2006 to March 2009 he worked at the University of Bremen as Professor in Economic Theory. Since April 2009 Andreas Pyka holds the chair for innovation economics at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.

University of Hohenheim
Institute of Economics
Wollgrasweg 23
D-70599 Stuttgart, Germany
Germany

Email: a.pyka@uni-hohenheim.de
Web: http://www.inno.uni-hohenheim.de

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Claudia Werker

Claudia Werker has been holding a teaching and research position in economics at Delft University of Technology since September 2007. She obtained her master degree in economics (Diplom-Volkswirtin) from the University of Konstanz, Germany, and her PhD-degree (Dr. rer. pol.) from Freiberg University of Technology, Germany (summa cum laude). Claudia Werker has served as a referee for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research as well as for numerous scientific journals (e.g. Research Policy, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Evolutionary Economics). She is a member of the International Schumpeter Society and the Committee of Evolutionary Economists of Verein für Socialpolitik.

Jaffalaan 5
Delft
2628 BX
Netherlands

Email: c.werker@tudelft.nl
Web: http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=aec3fc3c-4517-4251-9037-1a14f296e3c5&lang=nl