Dirk Czarnitzki

Dr. Dirk Czarnitzki is a Research Associate at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.
In 1998, he joined the ZEW as a researcher.
Since January 2005 he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at KU Leuven, Belgium, and he is also a senior researcher at the Steunpunt O&O Statistieken at KUL.
His research interests cover the fields of the economics of innovation and focus on applied micro econometrics.
The lines of research address topics such as the evaluation of public innovation policies, corporate governance, and innovation, the valuation of intellectual assets, as well as knowledge and technology transfer.
During the year 2004 he was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
He studied economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, from 1993 to 1998 (majors in industrial economics and econometrics).
He obtained Dr. rer.
pol.
from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2004.