12 scholarships for doctoral students/2 scholarships for post-docs

The new Research Training Group / Graduiertenkolleg 1411 “TheEconomics of Innovative Change” (Die Ökonomik des innovativenWandels) will start by October 1, 2006 at the Department ofEconomics of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena in cooperationwith the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena. The program isfunded by the German Science Foundation. It offers top levelgraduated students the opportunity to achieve a doctoral degree(PhD) in economics.

The Research Training Group offers:

• 12 scholarships for doctoral students (duration of 2+1 years)with a background in economics and business administration
• 2 scholarships for post-docs (duration of 2 years)one position with a background in experimental and empiricaleconomics and one position with a background in economics ofinnovation.

The Research Training Group “The Economics of Innovative Change”will address unresolved questions and problems concerning theeconomic dynamics of firms, markets, sectors and regions with ananalytical focus on the endogenous driving forces mainly understoodas the activities of invention and innovation. The variety of topicsthat is dealt with covers the foundations of individual behaviourand the economic and institutional environment, the generation ofinnovations together with the organizational forms of activities ofinvention and innovations, the change of the sectoral structurescaused by innovations, the role of the demand side in this context,as well as the political management of change.

The scholarship positions require a permanent and activeparticipation in the study and the research program of the researchtraining group. Therefore all scholarship holders are expected tochoose Jena as their place of residence.

Applications should include:CV, copy of diploma, BA, MA certificate, copy of diploma or masterthesis, writing sample (about 10 pages), 2 reference letters fromacademic teachers, 1 page statement on the expected benefit fromparticipating in the program;the application form: visit our homepagehttp://www.wiwi.uni-jena.de/Mikro/gk-eic.html, download, fill in andreturn to us;and be mailed to the spokesman of the Research Training Group,preferably by August 30, 2006:

Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Department of Economics
Carl-Zeiß-Str. 3
D-07743 Jena
e-mail: uwe.cantner@wiwi.uni-jena.de

Please do not send any originals because materials submitted cannotbe returned to the applicant.

For more information on the structure, teaching staff and objectivesof the Research Training Group visit:http://www.wiwi.uni-jena.de/Mikro/gk-eic.html

Website:12 Scholarships for Doctoral Students.