In the realm of the ERASMUS staff program, Maciej Grodzicki visited our faculty to engage in teaching classes and research exchange with the faculty members. He gave a guest lecture in the master course “Innovation Economics: Empirics” (Dr. Tobias Wendler), an obligatory course for all students in business studies who focus on innovation economics. Moreover, he conducted consulting lectures with PhD students and presented his current research on “New industrial policy in practice - building economic sovereignty for... the elites?” in the Economic Colloquium of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy (ierp).

Currently, Maciej Grodzicki is an assistant professor at Jagiellonian University Cracow. He is interested in evolutionary economics, international political economy and industrial policy. The Jagiellonian University Cracow is the oldest university in Poland, consisting of fifteen faculties and having more than 40,000 students. The Jagiellonian University, Institute of Economics, Finance and Management is a strategic partner of the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics of the University of Bremen. From 2016 to 2018, Maciej Grodzicki was a postdoc researcher at our faculty in cooperation with the University of Sussex, based on the highly competitive international P.R.I.M.E. award of the German Academic Exchange Service.