Georg Licht
Head
Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics
Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung
Germany
Biography
Georg Licht is head of the ZEW Research Department "Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics". He has been holding this position since June 1994. Before that, he was a senior researcher both at ZEW and the University of Augsburg. He obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Augsburg and holds a degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg. Georg Licht was visiting researcher at the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at various research institutes and universities in Europe. 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. Georg Licht 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. He was a member of several expert panels in science and innovation policy.
Research Interest
His research interests comprise the economics of innovation and technical change as well as the economics of small firms and entrepreneurship.
Publications
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Regis C, Murray G, Licht G (2010) Young Firm Internationalization and Survival: Empirical Tests on a Panel of 'Adolescent' New Technology-based Firms in Germany and the UK. International Small Business Journal 30: 472-492.
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Christina E, Ernst C, Licht G, Spengel C (2011) What the Design of an R&D Tax Incentive Tells About its Effectiveness: A Simulation of R&D Tax Incentives in the European Union. Journal of Technology Transfer 36: 233-256.
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Zoltán AJ, Audretsch DB, Lehmann EE, Licht G (2016) National systems of innovation. The Journal of Technology Transfer.
