The tip team

Martin Falk

martin.falk@wifo.ac.at

Martin Falk studied Economics at the University of Freiburg and Kiel (Germany) and graduated as Diplom-Volkswirt in Kiel. He finished his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Regensburg in 2002. From 1996 to 2002 he was a research fellow at the ZEW Mannheim. He joined the WIFO as a research fellow in October 2002. His main research interests are in the field of applied industrial and labour economics.

Rahel Falk

rahel.falk@wifo.ac.at

Rahel Falk joined the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in February 2003. Prior she has been working for the South-Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg. Here, her main research interest pertained to industrial policy issues in deregulating developing countries, particularly in India where she has been a visiting scholar at the think tank of the Reserve Bank of India. She has teaching experience in microeconomic theory and applied growth theory, both at the graduate level. Her current projects deal with R&D and innovation (financing, impact measurement, policy advice etc.)

Klaus Friesenbichler

klaus.friesenbichler@wifo.ac.at

Klaus S. Friesenbichler received a Bachelor of Arts in 2001 from the University of Paisley, UK and a Master degree in Business Administration from the University of Graz in 2003, where he also completed his PhD in Economics in 2006 on „Innovation and Competition in Mobile Telephony”. He started working for the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in 2004, where he is occupied as an economist in the field of industrial economics, innovation and trade.

Werner Hölzl

werner.hoelzl@wifo.ac.at

Werner Hölzl is economist at the Austrian institute of Economic research (WIFO). He studied economics and computer science at the Vienna University of Technology and finished his PhD at the University of Vienna in 2004. Before joining WIFO he was a researcher and lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business administration. His main research interests are in the field of industrial economics, structural change and innovation policy.

Hannes Leo

hannes.leo@wifo.ac.at

Hannes Leo, tip Project Leader from October 2003, joined the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in 1990 after completing his studies in business administration at the University of Innsbruck and Vienna. In 1992 he finished his Ph.D. studies at he University of Vienna with a dissertation on the economic impact of the Austrian participation in the European space programme. At WIFO, his main focus of work has been on innovation research, technology policy, the regulation of the telecommunication sector and information economics.

He was a research fellow at SPRU (University of Sussex, Brighton) in 1994, the Instituto di Studi sulla Ricerca e Documentazione Scientifica, (Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche, Rome) in 1995, a visiting economist at OFTEL (Office of Telecommunications, London) in 1996 and research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.

Michael Peneder

michael.peneder@wifo.ac.at

Michael Peneder, born in 1968, joined the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in 1992 and completed his PhD in 1999. Professional experiences include research fellowships at IRES, Louvain-la-Neuve (1991); CRIC, Manchester (1998); and IIASA, Laxenburg (1999). His main field of research is in industrial economics and innovation.

He is the author of "Entrepreneurial Competition and Industrial Location", Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (2001) as well as further (forthcoming) international publications in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, the Service Industries Journal, Empirica, and International Advances in Economic Research.

Andreas Reinstaller

andreas.reinstaller@wifo.ac.at

Andreas Reinstaller is a researcher at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in the fields of industrial economics, innovation and international competitiveness. He holds an economics degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and a PhD from the University of Maastricht, where at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) he attended the PhD Program in "Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change". Before joining WIFO he worked as a researcher at UNU-MERIT , and at the Institute of International Economics and Development at the Vienna University of Economics. He has published in international journals such as Research Policy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics or the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.

Kristin Smeral

kristin.smeral@wifo.ac.at

Kristin Smeral received her Bachelor of Arts in 1982 from the University of Vermont and a Master of Professional Studies from the New School of Social Research in New York City in 1985. Following her studies, she worked for seven years as a project manager in marketing research in the States as well as in Austria. She has been with WIFO since 1992, where she is responsible for the development and implementation of project management at the institute. Additionally, she has taken on the function of operative project management and/or project management coach in the majority of WIFO's more complex, large scale research projects.

Bernhard Dachs

bernhard.dachs@arcs.ac.at

Bernhard Dachs graduated in economics from the University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna in 1996. He then worked freelance for the Institute for Industrial Research and the Austrian Institute of Economic Research. In March 2000, he joined the Austrian Research Centers GmbH – ARC, systems research, Technology Policy Department. The primary focus of his research is innovation and technological change. His current work concentrates on innovation in the service sector, information and communication technologies and the internationalisation of R&D.

Joachim Klerx

joachim.klerx @arcs.ac.at

Joachim Klerx studied Philosophie (University of Vienna) and Economics (University of Vienna/ University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna). He holds a PhD from the University of Economics and Business Administration. After 1 year working as a researcher at the Institut für Industrial Economics (IWI), in 1999 he joint the Department of Regional Studies at the Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC, systems research. The primary focus of his research is behavioral economics and economics of innovation.

His current scientific interest are mathematical models of economic behavior, multi agent modelling and political information systems.

Karl-Heinz Leitner

karl-heinz.leitner@arcs.ac.at

Karl-Heinz Leitner is senior researcher at Austrian Research Centers GmbH – ARC, systems research where he his working since graduating in Business Administration at the University of Vienna and Technical University of Vienna in 1995. His main research interest covers innovation processes in industrial firms, innovation policy and the valuation of intellectual capital in universities and research organisations. Amongst others Karl-Heinz Leitner has published in R&D Management, Research Evaluation and Higher Education (forthcoming).

Sami Mahroum

sami.mahroum@arcs.ac.at

Sami is an international expert on the issue of brain drain and the international mobility of highly skilled labour. As a regular keynote speaker on this topic, he has written a book on the UK and European international exchange of academics and scientists, in addition to numerous research papers on the international mobility of talent between the EU and the US. Sami holds a PhD in Science and Technology Policy & Human Resources from the Helmut-Schmidt University (Hamburg).

Brigitte Ömer-Rieder

brigitte.oemer@arcs.ac.at

Brigitte Ömer-Rieder studied biology at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna. She holds a PhD in Human Ecology from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna. From 1995 to 2003 she worked at the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development. In 2003 she joined the Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC, systems research, where her current work concentrates on sustainability and innovation research, especially framework conditions, drivers and barriers for sustainable development innovations.

Claudia Steindl

claudia.steindl@arcs.ac.at

Claudia Steindl has been working as a researcher at Austrian Research Centers GmbH – ARC, systems research since May 2004. She studied Economics, specialising on issues of investment policies, foreign trade and economic growth and holds a PhD-degree from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna with a thesis on "Investment policy in Austria (1945-2003). Theoretical basis, programmes of political parties, implementation". Currently, she is involved in projects dealing with foresight and general topics in research, technology and innovation policy.

Matthias Weber

matthias.weber@arcs.ac.at

Matthias Weber joined Austrian Research Centers GmbH – ARC, systems research as head of the Technology Policy Department at the end of 2000. He is a trained process engineer (diploma) and political scientist (Mag.), and holds a Ph.d. in Innovation Economics from the University of Stuttgart. Before joining ARC, he worked for several years at the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (ITPS).

Currently, his main fields of work are concerned with the role of policy in innovation and technological change, transport and mobility and the relationships between science and policy.

Katy Whitelegg

katy.whitelegg@arcs.ac.at

Katy Whitelegg joined Austrian Research Centers GmbH – ARC, systems research in 2001. She studied Russian Studies (BA Honours) at the University of London and Science and Technology Policy (MSC) at SPRU - Science and technology policy research, University of Sussex. She has worked in the area of science and technology policy for the past seven years in the UK, Austria and Eastern Europe

Her current interests are in the area of research policy where she focuses on policy integration, the development of research strategies for sustainable development and the use of experts in policy formulation.

Brigitte Nones

brigitte.nones@joanneum.at

Brigitte Nones studied Business Administration at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and made her doctoral degree at the Institute of International Management in October 2003. Her Ph.D. thesis was about the roles of foreign R&D units of MNEs and their use of modern ICT in Austria. In 2004 she started working as project assistant at the Institute of Technology and Regional Policy of Joanneum Research in Vienna, since the beginning of 2005 as researcher with emphasis on technology and innovation policy.

Michael Dinges

michael.dinges@joanneum.at

Michael Dinges graduated in economics from the University of Vienna in 2003, after having spent a year at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He joined the Institute of Technology and Regional Policy of Joanneum Research in November 2003. His current work includes technology policy and innovation policy.

Helmut Gassler

helmut.gassler@joanneum.at

Helmut Gassler graduated in geography and regional science from the University of Vienna in 1995. After nine years working as a researcher at the ARC Seibersdorf Research Department of Regional Studies, he joined the Institute of Technology and Regional Policy of Joanneum Research in 2000. The primary focus of his research is technological change and regional development.

His current themes of interest focus are on the analysis of business start-ups, the relations between industry and science and international comparisons of the techno-economic performance of regions and nations.

Wolfgang Polt

wolfgang.polt@joanneum.at

Wolfgang Polt is an economist and has been working as a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the ARC Seibersdorf Research, Technology Policy Department. Between 1996 and 1998 he was engaged as a full time consultant for the OECD/Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry/Division for Science and Technology Policy in Paris.

Since 2000 he has been head of the Vienna Office of the Institute of Technology and Regional Policy, Joanneum Research. His main focus of work is in the analysis of technology and innovation policy, the design and evaluation of science, technology and innovation policy and programmes and in policy consulting.

Andreas Schibany

andreas.schibany@joanneum.at

Andreas Schibany graduated in economics from the University of Vienna in 1995. He works at the Institute of Technology and Regional Policy, Joanneum Research, in the area of science, technology and innovation policy. Before joining Joanneum Research he worked at the ARC Seibersdorf Research, Technology Policy Department. His main focus of research is the economics of industrial dynamics and in the field of technology and innovation policy.

Gerhard Streicher

gerhard.streicher@joanneum.at

Gerhard Streicher graduated in civil engineering from the "Universität für Bodenkultur" in Vienna in 1993. Since 2001 he has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Technology and Regional Policy of Joanneum Research. His main interests are economic modeling, econometrics, and technology policy.

His current work includes economic models of Austrian regions and the empirical analysis of the role of universities within systems of innovation. He is a lecturer in econometrics at the Department of Economics, Politics, and Law of the Universität für Bodenkultur.