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On March 25th, Michael Rochlitz was invited to give the keynote opening lecture at the „International Conference on Federalism, State and Society“, organized by the Islamia University of Bahawalpur in Pakistan. The yearly conference is the biggest conference in the social sciences in Pakistan.

For his dissertation on "Green Technologies and their Role for Sustainability" Tobias Wendler received the "CAMPUS PREIS: Research for a Sustainable Future" of the Kellner & Stoll Foundation on April 15, 2021.

Time: 14. April 2021, 4 pm, via Zoom Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dong Jun Wu, Georgia Tech Title: IT Knowledge Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity, and Productivity: Evidence from Enterprise Software

Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf has published a new article in the Journal of Corporate Finance under the title "The relevance of investor rights in crowdinvesting." The article emerged in collaboration with Tobias Schilling and Prof. Dr. Armin Schwienbacher of Skema Business School.

The article deals with the importance of science for the state of Bremen. In view of the Corona pandemic, public revenues are declining and the resources for financing science are no longer available to the extent planned.

On March 20, 2021, Michael Rochlitz gave a four-hour guest lecture at the University of Zurich on the subject of “Russia's Economic Transformation”, for the module “World Perspectives: Russia” of the master program “Applied History”.

A new paper by Michael Rochlitz, Evgeniya Mitrokhina and Irina Nizovkina has just been published in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Economy. The study shows how entrepreneurs affiliated with the political opposition are discriminated against by Russia’s state bureaucracy.

Katharina Friz and Marcel Lange are co-authors of the open-access book "Indicators for measuring research, development and innovation: fact sheets with hints for application" published by Springer-Verlag.  The main author is Andreas Kladroba, further co-authors are Tobias Buchmann and Patrick Wolf.…

Mariia Shkolnykova and Muhamed have published an article in the international, peer-reviewed journal “Small Business Economics” on the diffusion of radical innovations of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).