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Prof. Dr. Werner Bönte

	Prof. Dr. Werner Bönte
	Research Professor
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
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Education

2004	Habilitation, University of Hamburg, Department of Economics, Thesis: "Empirical Studies on Inter-Firm Knowledge Diffusion"
1999	Dr. rer. pol., University of Hamburg, Department of Economics, Thesis: Der Einfluss industrieller Forschung und Entwicklung auf die Produktivitätsentwicklung in der deutschen Industrie (The Impact of Industrial R&D on the Productivity Growth in German Manufacturing Industries), Adviser: Professor Dr. Wilhelm Pfähler
	Awarded with the Gerhard-Fürst-Award 2000 (Federal Statistical Office Germany)
1994	Diplom Volkswirt, Technical University of Berlin, Department of Economics

Academic Employment Experience

Since November 2007	Professor of Economics at the University of Wuppertal, Chair of Industrial Organization and Innovation
2006 to 2007	Associate Director, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics
Nov.-Dec. 2005	Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics
Sept.-Oct. 2005	Senior Research Fellow at the RWI Essen
1999 to 2005	Hochschulassistent (assistant professor), University of Hamburg, Department of Economics
1994 to 1998	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (scientific assistant), University of Hamburg, Department of Economics

Research Interests

• Economics of Innovation
• Industrial Economics
• Entrepreneurship
• Economic Performance of Regions

Publications

Books

• "Produktivitätseffekte industrieller Forschung und Entwicklung - Ergebnisse für Deutschland", Spektrum Bundesstatistik, Bd. 18, Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden 2002.
• "Wirtschaftsfaktor Bildung und Wissenschaft - Die regionalwirtschaftliche Bedeutung von Hochschulbildungs- und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen in Bremen", with Wilhelm Pfähler, Christian Gabriel und Anja Kettner, Frankfurt/M.; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Wien: Lang: 1999.

Publications in Refereed Journals

• "Knowledge Disclosure and Transmission in Buyer-Supplier Relationships", (with Lars Wiethaus), Review of Industrial Organization, forthcoming
• "Entrepreneurship Capital and its Impact on Knowledge Diffusion and Economic Performance", (with David Audretsch und Max Keilbach), Journal of Business Venturing, forthcoming.
• "Inter-Firm Trust in Buyer-Supplier Relations: Are Knowledge Spillovers and Geographical Proximity Relevant?", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
• "Wes' Lied sing ich? Replik auf Klodt", (with Bernd Lucke), Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 7(2), S. 309-310, 2006.
• "Concubinage or Marriage? Informal and Formal Cooperations for Innovation", (with Max Keilbach), International Journal of Industrial Organization 23, 2005, 279-302.
• "Spillovers from Publicly Financed Business R&D: Some Empirical Evidence from Germany", Research Policy 33, 2004, 1635-1655.
• "Innovation and Employment Growth in Industrial Clusters: Evidence from Aeronautical Firms in Germany", International Journal of the Economics of Business, 11(3), 2004, 259-278.
• "Qualitätssicherung in der volkswirtschaftlichen Auftragsforschung: Eine Fallstudie und ein Vorschlag", (with Bernd Lucke), Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 5 (1), 2004, 1-22.
• "Does Federally Financed Business R&D Matter for U.S. Productivity Growth?", Applied Economics 35 (15), 2003, 1619-1625.
• "R&D and Productivity: Internal vs. external R&D - Evidence from West-German Manufacturing Industries", Economics of Innovation and New Technology 12 (4), 2003, 343-360.
• "TFP Measures without R&D Bias - A Note", Applied Economics Quarterly 48, 2002, 48-66.
• "F&E-Spillover und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Kosten der Produktion", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1997, Bd. 216/2, 209-225.
• "Does Extra Public Infrastructure Capital matter? An Appraisal of Empirical Literature", (with Wilhelm Pfähler and Ulrich Hofmann), Finanzarchiv 53, 1996, 68-112.

Other Publications

• "Angemessene Einwohnerveredelung im Länderfinanzausgleich - Anmerkungen zu einem Quantifizierungsversuch", (with Bernd Lucke) in: Martin Junkernheinrich (Hrsg.): Sonderbedarfe im bundesstaatlichen Finanzausgleich : Theorie - Methoden - Instrumente, Berlin: Analytica (Forum Öffentliche Finanzen; Bd. 7), 2005, 189-206.
• "Wie produktiv sind Investitionen in industrielle Forschung und Entwicklung?", Wirtschaft und Statistik, 2001, 4, 312-320.
• "Combining Input-Output with Productivity Analysis - Technology Diffusion in Regional Perspective", in: W. Pfähler (Hrsg.) , Regional Input-Output Analysis, Nomos Verlag, Baden Baden, (2001), 265-284.
• "Paths of Innovation: A Review Article", Homo Oeconomicus, 2000, XVI (4), 473-474.
• "F&E-Spillover und F&E-Politik. Zur theoretischen und empirischen Fundierung der deutschen F&E-Politik", (with Wilhelm Pfähler), in: Kruse, J. und O.G. Meyer (eds.), Aktuelle Probleme der Wettbewerbs- und Wirtschaftspolitik, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1996, 59-82.

Recent Working Papers

• "Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship" (with Werner Bönte and OliverFalck), CESifo Working Paper No. 2115, 2007
• "Nascent Entrepreneurs, Innovation and External Finance" (with David B. Audretsch and Prashanth Mahagaonkar)
• "Why Powerful Buyers Finance Suppliers' R&D" (with Lars Wiethaus)
• "Knowldedge Transfer in Buyer-Supplier Relationships - When It (Not) Occurs", (with Lars Wiethaus), RWI: Discussion Papers No. 3
• "Religion and Entrepreneurship", (with David B. Audretsch and Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada), CEPR Discussion Papers No 6378

Refereeing

• Applied Economics
• Applied Economics Quarterly
• Economica
• Economics of Innovation and New Technology
• Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
• Homo Oeconomicus
• International Journal of the Economics of Business
• International Journal of Industrial Organization
• Journal of Evolutionary Economics
• Regional Studies
• Research Policy
• Small Business Economics.
• Technovation