Simon Deichsel

Simon Deichsel studied Philosophy and Economics in Bayreuth and Bologna. In 2006, he obtained the degree of a Master of Arts (graded with distinction) with a thesis about model-platonism in economics. His specialisation in philosophy of science and institutional economics set the stage for his Ph. D.-project in philosophy at the University of Bremen where he got a position as research assistant of Prof. Dr. Dagmar Borchers in 2006. Simon's Ph. D. thesis deals with the question how economic models can be adequately evaluated when classic empiricist standards are hard to apply.

Institut für Philosophie
Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 7
28359 Bremen
Germany

Email: simon.deichsel@uni-bremen.de
Web: http://www.philosophie.uni-bremen.de/

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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