Dr. Ann Hipp
Scientific employee (habilitation candidate)
Contact:
Max-von-Laue-Straße 1
28359 Bremen
Building WIWI 2, Room F 2120
Phone: +49 (0)421 218-66640
ann.hipp(at)uni-bremen.de
Person
Dr. Ann Hipp is a research assistant (Postdoc) in the research group “Economics of Innovation and Structural Change” (Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther) at the University of Bremen and a senior researcher at Thünen Institute of Rural Economics.
Since 2016 she was a research fellow of the Graduate Academy at TU Dresden and worked as research assistant (PhD candidate) in the Junior Research Group Knowledge and Technology Transfer. She engaged in teaching in the areas of innovation systems, firm and regional analysis, and quantitative methods. In her dissertation, she investigates the influence of innovation activities and policy support on industry dynamics using the case of the solar photovoltaics industry.
Her work is published in international leading-edge journals such as Research Policy and rewarded by Stifterverband, MEXT Japan and VW Foundation. She was a guest researcher at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and ETH Zurich and frequently presents her work at renowned conferences such as the DRUID, EAEPE and International Schumpeter Society.
She graduated in Economics at TU Dresden and TU Chemnitz and visited Audencia School of Management and Lappeenranta University of Technology in the scope of the Erasmus Exchange Program.
Academic education and degrees
06.2019 | Research associate (Postdoc) |
06.2018 | Visiting scholar |
01.2018 – 05.2018 | Visiting scholar |
09.2016 – 05.2019 | Research associate (PhD Candidate) |
08.2015 – 08.2016 | Research associate |
03. – 04.2014 | Internship |
08. – 10.2013 | Research assistant |
| 05.2013 – 09.2014 | Student assistant TU Dresden Research Group InnoTech4Health |
04. – 07.2011 | Tutor |
09.2010 – 08.2011 | Internship |
Projects
2022 - 2024 | DFG Network "The Dynamics of Innovation Systems: Perspectives, Influences and Operationalization" (Lead) Project partners: ifh Göttingen, TU Braunschweig, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
06.2019 - 09.2025 | Obstacles to Modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR (Mod-Block-DDR) Project partners: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Technical University Berlin Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
Teaching
2022 - 2023 | Lecture and Excercise "Microeconomics" (University of Bremen, Bachelor) |
2021 | Lecture "Estimating hazard models" (University College London, PhD) |
| 2019 - 2021 | Seminar "How a socialist economy transforms into a market system" (University of Bremen, Master) |
2018 - 2019 | Seminar "Globalization and Innovation" (TU Dresden, Bachelor) |
2018 | Excercise "Quantitative Methods" (TU Dresden, Bachelor) |
| 2017 - 2018 | Seminar "Firm and Regional Analysis" (TU Dresden, Bachelor) |
| 2017 - 2018 | Seminar "Excercise Scientific and Practical Working" (TU Dresden, Bachelor) |
| 2015 - 2016 | Organisation "Marketing in Specific Industry Contexts" (University of Mannheim, Bachelor) |
2011 | Excercise "Intercultural Communication and Cooperation" (TU Chemnitz, Bachelor) |
Publications
| Peer-reviewed Articles |
Hipp, A.; Jindra, B.; Medase, K. (2024): Overcoming barriers to technology transfer - Empirical evidence from the German Democratic Republic, In: The Journal of Technology Transfer, doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10055-5. |
Hipp, A.; Ludwig, U.; Günther, J. (2024): Innovation and growth of a socialist economy: New evidence from revised data, In: Eastern European Economics, forthcoming. |
Bischoff, T. S.; Hipp, A.; Runst, P. (2023): Firm innovation and generalized trust as a regional resource, Research Policy 52 (8), 104813. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104813 |
| Hipp, A.; Fritsch, M.; Greve, M.; Günther, J.; Lange, M.; Liutik, C.; Pfeifer, B.; Shkolnykova, M.; Wyrwich, M. (2022): Comprehensive Patent Data of the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990—technical report and dataset overview, Journal of Economics and Statistics. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2022-0058 |
| Hipp, A. (2021): R&D collaborations along the industry life cycle: the case of German photovoltaics manufacturer. Industrial and Corporate Change 30 (3), 564-586. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtaa054 |
| Hipp, A.; Binz, C. (2020): Firm survival in complex value chains and global innovation systems: Evidence from solar photovoltaics. Research Policy 49 (1), 103876. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.103876 |
| Hipp, A.; Kalthaus, M. (2020): Innovative activities and firm survival during the life cycle of the German photovoltaics industry. Academy of Management Proceedings 2020 ( 1), 22032, Academy of Management, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510. DOI: doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.22032abstract |
| Books and Chapters |
| Ludwig, U.; Hipp, A.; Medase, K. (2024): The influence of technical progress on economic growth in the GDR, In: Günther, J., Jajeśniak-Quast, D., Ludwig, U., & Wagener, H. J. (Eds.), Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition: Evidence from East Germany and Poland, Springer Nature, Cham, pp. 63-90. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37050-2 |
| Hipp, A.; Ludwig, U.; Günther, J. (2022): Und sie wirkten doch: Patente und Produktivität in der DDR, in: Flade, F.; Steinkamp, A.; Walerski, K. (Eds): Transformation in Polen und Ostdeutschland: Voraussetzungen, Verlauf und Ergebnisse, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden. DOI: doi.org/10.11584/ips.11 |
| Günther, J.; Hipp, A.; Ludwig, U. (2020): Universalien der Innovation - Erfindertum und technischer Fortschritt in der DDR und dessen Rolle nach 1990. Universität Bremen. DOI: doi.org/10.26092/ELIB/332 |
| Hipp, A. (2020): Innovation activities, policy support and the industry life cycle: The case of solar photovoltaics. Dissertation. TU Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften. |
| Datasets |
| Hipp, A.; Fritsch, M.; Greve, M.; Günther, J.; Lange, M.; Liutik, C.; Pfeifer, B.; Shkolnykova, M.; Wyrwich, M. (2022): Patentdaten der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR) (1949-1990). GESIS, Köln. Datenfile Version 1.1, doi.org/10.7802/2448 |
| Hipp, A.; Ludwig, U.; Günther, J. (2022): Kennzahlen zur Wirtschaft, Technologie und Forschung der DDR und BRD (1949-89). GESIS, Köln. Datenfile Version 1.0.0, doi.org/10.7802/2454 |