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In cooperation with the Research Centre for Eastern European Studies (FSO), the Bremen team of Mod-Block-DDR is organizing the series of events "The long way from East to West? 30 Years of German Unity".

Interview with Professor Hornuf in radio format "Hintergrund".

The Summer School was also very well received in the unusual online format. The program included contributions from lecturers from research, politics and consulting practice. Jutta Günther gave a lecture on " Scientifically Sound Consulting in Economic and Innovation Policy".

The 32nd intern. conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy took place from September 02-04 as an online event. Our research group was represented with four presentations – J. Birkholz, M. Shkolnykova, P. Kerner and T. Wendler presented their current research projects.

On Thursday, September 3, Professor Lars Hornuf will present the paper "Are Sustainability-Oriented Investors Different? Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding" at the University of Southern Denmark. The paper was written in collaboration with PhD students Eliza Stenzhorn and Tim Vintis.

Matheus Leusin, Jutta Günther and Björn Jindra together with Martin Möhrle published a new article on “Patenting patterns in Artificial Intelligence: Identifying national and international breeding grounds” in the journal “World Patent Information”.

The past semester was marked by the outbreak of the coronavirus and posed challenges to the Mod-Block-DDR project team as well.

Three weeks of practical experience despite limitations: Business and IT students at the PRAXIS Summer Camp

Thomas Loy, jointly with Hendrik Rupertus (University of Bayreuth), has published an article revolving around the question how international stock markets value gender diverse boards in the long-term.

Prof. Dr. Aseem Kinra and Doctoral Candidate Samaneh Beheshti-Kashi in collaboration with other International colleagues have published a new study on big data analytics and the adoption of driverless mobility in the Transport Policy journal.