Max Planck Institute of Economics - Prof. Dr. Guido Bünstorf

	Prof. Dr. Guido Bünstorf
	Research Group Leader (W2) Privatdozent, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Faculty Member, DFG Research Training Group 1411: Economics of Innovative Change Currently on leave at the University of Kassel
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
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Curriculum Vitae

1990-1996: Studies in economics and political science at Freiburg University and at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst / U.S.A.). 1996: Diplom-Volkswirt (M.A. in Economics) at Freiburg. 1996-2008: Research Associate, Max Planck Institute of Economics. 1999-2002: Assistant to the Executive Director, Max Planck Institute of Economics. 2002: PhD in Economics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. 2003: Visiting Researcher, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA). 2008: Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Economics. Habilitation in Economics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.

Current Interests

Industry evolution
Entrepreneurship
Technology transfer
Regional economics

Working Papers

Buenstorf, G. and S. Klepper: "Submarket Dynamics and Innovation: The Case of the U.S. Tire Industry."
Buenstorf, G.: "Technologietransfer und Kommerzialisierung – Ausverkauf der Wissenschaft?"
Von Ledebur, S.; G. Buenstorf and M. Hummel: "University patenting in Germany before and after 2002: What role did the professors’ privilege play?" Jena Economic Research Papers # 2009-068 (PDF)
Buenstorf, G. and M. Geissler: "The origins of entrants and the geography of the German laser industry." Papers on Economics and Evolution # 0814 (PDF)
Buenstorf, G. and M. Geissler: "Not invented here: Knowledge transfer and technology licensing from a German public research organization."
Buenstorf, G. and C. Guenther: "No place like home? Location choice and firm survival after forced relocation in the German machine tool industry." Jena Economic Research Papers # 2007-53. (PDF)
Buenstorf, G. and S. Klepper: "Why does entry cluster geographically? Evidence from the U.S. tire industry."

Publications

Book:

"The Economics of Energy and the Production Process: An Evolutionary Approach", Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, (2004).

Journal Articles:

Buenstorf, G. and S. Klepper: "Heritage and agglomeration: the Akron tyre cluster revisited." The Economic Journal, 119 (2009): 705-733.
Buenstorf, G.: "Is commercialization good or bad for science? Individual-level evidence from the Max Planck Society." Research Policy, 38 (2009): 281-292.
Buenstorf, G. and D. Fornahl: "B2C - Bubble to cluster: The dot.com boom, spin-off entrepreneurship, and regional agglomeration." Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 19 (2009): 349-378.
Buenstorf, G.: "Opportunity spin-offs and necessity spin-offs." International Journal of Entreprenurial Venturing, 1 (2009): 22-40.
Buenstorf, G. and C. Cordes: "Can sustainable consumption be learned? A model of cultural evolution." Ecological Economics, 67 (2008): 646-657.
Buenstorf, G.: "Evolution on the shoulders of giants: entrepreneurship and firm survival in the German laser industry." Review of Industrial Organization, 30 (2007): 179-202.
Buenstorf, G.: "Creation and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities: an evolutionary economics perspective." Small Business Economics, 28 (2007): 323-337.
Buenstorf, G.: "How useful is generalized Darwinism as a framework to study competition and industrial evolution?" Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 16 (2006): 511-527.
Buenstorf, G. and U. Witt: "How problems of organizational growth in firms affect industry entry and exit." Revue de l'Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques, June 2006: 47-62.
Buenstorf, G. and J.P. Murmann: "Ernst Abbe's scientific management: theoretical insights from a nineteenth-century dynamic capabilities approach" Industrial and Corporate Change, 14 (2005): 543-578. (PDF)
Buenstorf, G.: "Sequential production, modularity and technological change." Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 16 (2005): 221-241.
Buenstorf, G.: "Über den Wettbewerb als allgemeines Aufdeckungs-, Ordnungs- und Erkundungsverfahren." ORDO - Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 53 (2002): 189-205.
Buenstorf, G.: "Self-organization and sustainability: energetics of evolution and implications for ecological economics." Ecological Economics, 33 (2000): 119-134.

Book Chapters:

Lenzi, C.; K. Bishop, S. Breschi, G. Buenstorf, P. Llerena, F. Malerba, M. L. Mancusi and M. McKelvey: "New innovators and knowledge intensive entrepreneurship in some European sectoral systems: a field analysis" In: F. Malerba (ed.): Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems, London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
Buenstorf, G.: "Knowledge-based entrepreneurship and technology transfer: Evidence from the German laser industry." In: F. Malerba (ed.): Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems, London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
Buenstorf, G.: "Comparative Industrial Evolution and the Quest for an Evolutionary Theory of Market Dynamics", in: Hanappi, H. and W. Elsner (eds.), Advances in Evolutionary Institutional Economics: Evolutionary Mechanisms, Non-Knowledge and Strategy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 59-78.
Buenstorf, G.: "Complementarity, cognition and capabilities: towards an evolutionary theory of production." In: K. Nielsen and S. Ioannides (eds.): Economics and the Social Sciences: Boundaries, Interaction and Integration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, (2007), pp. 262-288.
Buenstorf, G.: "Processes of knowledge sharing: from cognitive psychology to economics." In: E. Helmstädter (ed.): The Economics of Knowledge Sharing. A New Institutional Approach. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, (2003), pp. 74-99.
Buenstorf, G.: "Designing clunkers: demand-side innovation and the early history of the mountain bike." In: J. S. Metcalfe and U. Cantner (eds.): Change, Transformation and Development. Heidelberg: Physica, (2003), pp. 53-70.
Buenstorf, G.: "Perspektiven des Wandels und Perspektiven Evolutorischer Ökonomik: einige einleitende Überlegungen." In: M. Lehmann-Waffenschmidt (ed.): Perspektiven des Wandels - Evolutorische Ökonomik in der Anwendung. Marburg: Metropolis (2002), pp.17-36.

Others:

Buenstorf, G.: Review of: S. Baumgärtner, M. Faber and J. Schiller: "Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics." Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 18 (2008): 111-114.
Buenstorf, G.: "Scientists as inventors: little reason for reservations." Garching Information, 1/2006.
Buenstorf, G.: "Massenmotorisierung: Dynamische Skalenerträge, Lernprozesse und Produktinnovation." (Comment on R. Flik:"Motorisierung des Straßenverkehrs, Automobilindustrie und Wirtschaftswachstum in Europa und Übersee bis 1939.") In: M. Lehmann-Waffenschmidt (ed.): Perspektiven des Wandels - Evolutorische Ökonomik in der Anwendung. Marburg: Metropolis (2002), pp.103-110.
Buenstorf, G., C. Cordes, W. Ruprecht, C. Sartorius and U. Witt: "Langfristige wirtschaftliche Entwicklung - ein evolutionärer Ansatz." Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 29 (2000): 711-713.
Buenstorf, G. and C. Sartorius: "Selbstorganisation als 'Missing Link'?"; Ökologisches Wirtschaften 3-4/1998: 7-9
Buenstorf, G.: Review of: F. Söllner: Thermodynamik und Umweltökonomie. Kyklos 51/3 (1998): 458-460.

Awards

Habilitationspreis, 2009, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

K. William Kapp Prize, 2006, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.

Otto Hahn Medaille 2003, Max Planck Society.

First Prize, Hayek Essay Contest for PhD Students 2002, Friedrich-A.-von-Hayek-Gesellschaft.

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