Prof. Dr. Frieder Meyer-Krahmer

State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Germany

Short biography

1968-1975	Studies of Mathematics, Economics and Political Science in Heidelberg, Bonn and Frankfurt
1978	Dr. rer. pol. (summa cum laude) at Frankfurt University
1982	Period of research at Yale University, USA
1986-1990	Head of the Industry and Technology Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin
1989	Habilitation (professorial qualification) at Stuttgart University
1990-2005	Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, and Chairman of the Scientific-Technical Board of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (with effect from 1999)
Since 1995	Professor of Economics with focus on Innovation Economics at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France
Since  02/2005	State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Researc

• Member of the Science Council
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the WZB (Social Science Research Center Berlin)
• Member of the Senate of the Leibniz Association
• Representative of the Federal Chancellor for the European Institute of Technology
• Member of the Stakeholder Committee des Network of Excellence DIME (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe)
• Member of the Senate from acatech
• Chevalier of the National Order of Merit of the Republic of France

Plenum

09/09/2009, 10:30 - 12:30

Opening

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