From February 3 to 7, 2020, Thore Sören Bischof will visit the working group "Innovation and Structural Change" in the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics. During this time, he will work with Ann Hipp on an empirical paper analyzing the influence of informal institutions on innovation. This study is embedded in the work of the joint project Mod-Block-GDR, which deals with the unequal economic developments of the regions in East and West Germany.

The research work will be presented at the scientific conference "Transformation Research: Poland and East Germany in Comparison", which will be hosted by members of the Mod-Block-GDR network on 18-20 June 2020 at Gdańsk, Poland.

Thore Sören Bischoff is a PhD student at the Institute of Economics for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Handicrafts at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen (ifh). His research focuses on the institutional factors influencing innovation processes.