Prof. Dr. Dirk Czarnitzki
Prof. Dr. Dirk Czarnitzki
Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics
Professor Dr. Dirk Czarnitzki is a research associate at ZEW. He works in close cooperation with the research unit “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics”.
He is a professor at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation at KU Leuven in Belgium. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Duisburg-Essen. Before joining KU Leuven in 2005, he conducted research at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (under the supervision of Bronwyn H. Hall and Guido W. Imbens).
His research interests primarily lie in industrial economics, innovation economics, and applied econometrics. His main areas of focus include evaluating government industrial policy, particularly in the fields of innovation policy, intellectual property, the economics of science, corporate governance and innovation, as well as knowledge and technology transfer, including academic entrepreneurship. Dirk has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Economics and Business Statistics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Research Policy, European Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and many others.
In addition, Dirk possesses extensive expertise in policy-relevant research. Among numerous other projects, he has conducted econometric evaluation studies for the European Commission, the World Bank, as well as the German and Flemish governments. He has also served as a member of independent expert groups for the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission on tax incentives for research and development activities, and contributed to the evaluation of the Eurostars program—a joint initiative of the European Commission and EUREKA to promote innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises. Furthermore, he was an independent expert in the “Evaluation Helpdesk,” a project commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional Policy and Urban Development, and advised the Directorate-General for Competition and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Dirk also advises the Flemish and German governments as well as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and regularly serves as a scientific advisor for EU research projects. Additionally, he acts as an econometric expert in competition policy cases in court proceedings.
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