ZiF Cooperation Group
Governance, Incentives, and the Quality of Knowledge
July 2019 - June 2021
Max Albert (Gießen, GER)
Guido Bünstorf (Kassel, GER)
Martin Carrier (Bielefeld, GER)
Rolf König (Bielefeld, GER)
Cornelis Menke (Mainz, GER)
Niels Taubert (Bielefeld, GER)
Convenors
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Max Albert is Professor of Economics with a focus on Microeconomics (Behavioural and Institutional Economics) at Justus Liebig University Gießen. His research is concerned with philosophy of science, methodology of economics, economics of science, the theory of rationality and the causes of cooperative behavior. |
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Guido Bünstorf is Professor of Economics (focus on Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship) and Executive Vice Director oft he International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) at the University of Kassel. His research and teaching activities focus on the economics of science and innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional development. He is particularly interested in the importance of individual mobility for the transfer of knowledge across regions and organizations. |
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Martin Carrier is Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy of Science) at Bielefeld University. |
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Rolf König is Professor of Business Administration (focus on taxation) at Bielefeld University. |
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Cornelis Menke is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Director of General Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He is interested in methodology in general, and in heuristics, the economy of research, and philosophy of statistics in particular. |
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Niels Taubert is head of the working group Bibliometry, Institute for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I²SoS) at Bielefeld University. |