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    ?The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.“ (John Maynard Keynes)

Welcome

to the Chair of Economics of Innovation and Structural Change

Since October 1, 2024, Johannes Paha has been acting head of the Chair of Economics, in particular Innovation and Structural Economics.

The holder of the professorship, Jutta Günther, has been Rector of the University of Bremen since September 1, 2022. The academic work and third-party funded projects at the professorship will continue seamlessly.

Currently, a joint research project deals with the structural economic consequences of socialism and transformation in East Germany and Eastern Europe (Mod-Block-GDR). Other projects of the working group focus on the development and deployment of sustainable energy systems and technologies (H2B, hyTracks, hyBit) and on the dynamics of innovation systems (DynamicInno). Postdocs of the working group are initiators of the network "Learning (from) Transformation", which is funded by BYRD.

Prof. Dr. Johannes Paha

University of Bremen
Faculty of Business Studies and Economics
Max-von-Laue-Str. 1
28359 Bremen

E-Mail:

office-paha(at)uni-bremen.de

office-guenther(at)uni-bremen.de

Phone: +49 (0)421 218-66631

Prof. Günther

Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther (on leave)

Latest news


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New publication on the impact of spatial innovation ecosystems on the development of digital technologies

The study explains which organizations are driving the development of digital technologies in Germany and what influence their spatial environment has.


Call vor Papers: 4th Prof. Jan Winiecki International Scientific Conderence

“A CHANGING WORLD: CHALLENGES FOR ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIES” May 28-29, 2026, University of Gdańsk Faculty of Economics, Poland.


Ann Hipp

TV report on inventions and patents in the GDR in the three-part documentary “DDR Genial” on ZDFinfo

Ann Hipp gave an expert interview to ZDFinfo on inventions and the patent system in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).


Successful consortium meeting of the hyBit project at the University of Bremen

From September 2 to 4, the annual consortium meeting of the hyBit project took place at the University of Bremen.


New publication as part of the hyBit project

The paper “Regional Capabilities for Green Hydrogen: Insights from Northern and Western Germany,” co-authored by Jessica Birkholz, Susanna Bolz, Bj?rn Jindra, and Philip Kerner, has been published in the ierp discussion paper series “Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation”.


Prof. Paha und W. Siebert vor einem Banner der Universit?t Bremen

Bremen Research at the Central European Conference for Industrial Economics (EARIE 2025)

In 2025, the University of Bremen was represented with three scientific contributions at the Annual Conference of the der European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE).