Michael Fritsch

Michael Fritsch ( born October 12, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German economist and Chair of Corporate Development, Innovation and economic change at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena.

Career

Fritsch made ​​1977 his diploma in economics, 1982 Doctor of Economics and habilitated in 1989 at the Technical University in Berlin.

From 1992-2006 he was Professor at the Department of Economic Policy at the Technical University of Freiberg. Since 2006 he is professor at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena. In addition, he is a research professor at both the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena. Michael Fritsch is co-editor of the journal Small Business Economics. He is listed in the Handelsblatt Economics economists ranking.

Research

The focus of Fritsch's research is in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation, whereby it focuses its attention on the analysis of the employment effects of new firms. Together with David B. Audretsch, he developed the conceptual model of regional growth regime, which classifies regions according to the level of their regional birth rate and its employment growth. In the area of innovation research he focuses on regional innovation systems, the division of innovative labor between the actors and the efficiency of innovation. Furthermore, Fritsch was instrumental in highlighting the importance of universities in regional innovation systems and the innovative activities of private companies.

His study of the relationship between cultural amenities and economic growth of a region attracted in the media considerable attention. It succeeded Fritsch and his co-authors show that regional growth is 2 percent higher in those regions of Germany, where in 1800 was an opera house than in regions without the Opera House. This should be food for thought for policy makers, whether it's really worth to save expenditure for cultural purposes. About this result reported, among other things, the New York Times.

Works (selection)

• Economic approaches to legitimize collective action, Duncker & Humblot 1983.
• Innovation and Technological Change in Eastern Europe, with Horst Brezinski, Edward Elgar 1989.
• Entrepreneurship in the region, with Jürgen Schmude, Springer, 2006.
• Universities, Innovation, Region - Knowledge transfer in a spatial context, with Tobias Henning; Viktor Slavtchev; Norbert Steigenberger, Edition Sigma, 2007.
• Market failure and economic policy: Microeconomic foundations of government action, 8th edition, Franz Vahlen, Munich, 2011.
• Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: National and Regional Perspectives, Editor, Elgar Publishing, 2011.

Article

• Regional Differences in New Firm Formation - Evidence From West Germany, Regional Studies, 1992, 26, 233-241.
• The Geography of Firm Births in Germany, with David B. Audretsch, Regional Studies, 1994, 28, 359-365.
• New firms and regional employment change, Small Business Economics, 1997, 9, 437-448.
• Co -operation in regional innovation systems, Regional Studies, 2001, 35, 297-307.
• Who Cooperates on R & D? , With Rolf Lukas, Research Policy, 2001, 30, 297-312.
• Growth regimes over time and space, with David B. Audretsch, Regional Studies, 2002, 36, 113-124.
• Cooperation and the efficiency of regional R & D activities, Cambridge Journal Of Economics, 2004, 28, 829-846.
• Entrepreneurship, entry and performance of new business Compared in two growth regimes: East and West Germany, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2004, 14, 525-542.
• Innovation, regional knowledge spillovers and R & D cooperation, with Grit Franke, Research Policy, 2004, 33, 245-255.

Other publications can be found on the pages of the University of Jena.