Alexander Ebner
Alexander Ebner (born October 19, 1967 in Wiesbaden ) is a German social scientist and holder of the professorship for political economy and economic sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His main research areas include entrepreneurship and innovation , governance and economic policy , regional development , and the history of economic and social sciences.
Career
Ebner studied political science and economics at the University of Frankfurt from 1989 to 1995. After working on a project, from 1998 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Economics , in particular economic theory, at the Faculty of Economics at Goethe University (owner: Bertram Schefold ). There he received his doctorate in 2002 with a dissertation on entrepreneurship and innovation theory (Dr. rer. Pol., Summa cum laude). He then worked as a research assistant at the Krupp Endowed Chair for Public Finance and Sociology of Public Finance at the University of Erfurt , where he completed his habilitation in 2008 with an interdisciplinary thesis on "Governance and Public Policy".
He held teaching positions at the Eurofaculty of the Latvian University of Riga and the European Business School in Wiesbaden. Between 2006 and 2009 he was an Affiliate Professor at the Grenoble École de Management . He completed international research stays at the 'Berkeley Center on Law, Business and the Economy' at the University of California, Berkeley and at the 'Institute of Southeast Asian Studies' in Singapore.
From August 2008 Ebner worked as 'Associate Professor of Political Economy' at the 'School of Humanities and Social Sciences' at Jacobs University Bremen . Since July 2009 he has held the professorship for social economics with a focus on economic sociology and political economy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. There he also works as the founding director of the 'Schumpeter Center for Innovation and Public Policy'.
Research and Teaching
Ebner's research and teaching focus is on the core areas of political economy and economic sociology . His works are assigned to New Institutionalism . His main research areas include entrepreneurship and innovation, governance and economic policy, regional development and the history of economics and social sciences. Current research projects deal with topics such as transformations of the relationship between market and state, governance structures in economic policy, regional cluster and innovation strategies, transnational entrepreneurship and economic-cultural aspects of social change.
Bibliography (selection)
- Embedded Entrepreneurship: The Institutional Dynamics of Innovation , London and New York: Routledge, 2016 ( ISBN 978-0415459761 )
- Innovation strategies and regional development: theory and empiricism of regional innovation processes , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , 2014.
- with Birgit Blättel-Mink (ed.) Innovation Systems: Technology, Institutions and the Dynamics of Competitiveness , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-14937-0 .
- with Nikolaus Beck (ed.) The Institutions of the Market: Organizations, Social Systems, and Governance , Oxford University Press , 2008.
- with Klaus Heine and Jan Schnellenbach (eds.) Innovation between the market and the state: The institutional dynamics of economic change , Nomos Verlag , 2007.
- with Dirk Fornahl and Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt (eds.) Institutional change, market processes and dynamic economic policy , Metropolis , 2004.
- with Helge Peukert (ed.): Werner Sombart: Economics as the theory of capitalism. Selected Writings , Metropolis, 2002.
Web links
- [1] at the University of Frankfurt
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebner, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social scientist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |