Frieder Meyer-Krahmer

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Frieder Meyer-Krahmer (born December 20, 1949 in Heidelberg ) is a German economist and innovation researcher . From 2005 to December 2009 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Life

Frieder Meyer-Krahmer is the son of Hans-Georg Meyer-Krahmer (1920–1952) and Marianne Meyer-Krahmer (1919–2011), the daughter of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , a resistance fighter executed in the Nazi regime.

From 1968 to 1975 he studied mathematics , economics and political science in Heidelberg, Bonn and Frankfurt. In 1978 he received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt with a thesis "The explanatory value of the economic theory of politics for political decision-making processes". rer. pole.

Professionally, his path led for approx. 30 years in non-university research. In 1982 he was doing a research stay at Yale University in the USA . From 1986 to 1990 he was department head at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin, where he headed the then department for industry and technology. In 1989 Meyer-Krahmer completed his habilitation at the University of Stuttgart . He then moved from DIW to the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft : From 1990 to 2005 he was director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe, taught as a university professor at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg and was co-editor of the internationally renowned journal Research Policy. The focus of his work was knowledge and innovation economy as well as research and innovation policy. From February 2005 to December 2009 Meyer-Krahmer was State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In this capacity he was a member of the Science Council and a member of the Senate of the Leibniz Association . He was responsible for national research funding as well as European and international education and research policy. He coordinated the federal government's high-tech strategy throughout the government and was the Federal Chancellor's agent for the establishment of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT). His concerns were primarily the modernization of the German science system and a holistic innovation policy. Afterwards he was personal advisor to the EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik , Research Fellow at the Science Center Berlin and member of the international jury of the Excellence Initiative for French universities.

In 1978 he received a prize from the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce for the best class dissertation, in 2005 he was awarded the Chevalier dans l ' Ordre national du Mérite by the President of the French Republic and in 2015 the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun on Ribbon (Kyokujitsu chujusho). Meyer-Krahmer was born with Ulrike Meyer-Krahmer. Strecker is married and is a father and grandfather.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice for Marianne Meyer-Krahmer
  2. ↑ Article about Marianne Meyer-Krahmer in the magazine "Ruprecht", the Heidelberg student newspaper
  3. ^ Speech by Marianne Meyer-Krahmer on July 20, 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 103 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.20-juli-44.de  
  4. ↑ see announcement about his appointment as State Secretary at Uni-Protocols (IDW)
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Krahmer, Frieder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and innovation researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg