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Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Soltwedel
Phone +49 431 8814 339
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Current research topics
  • The Spatial Dimension of European Integration
  • Innovation and Clusters
  • Systemic Issues of the Liberalization of Network Infrastructure Industries
Expertise
  • The New Economy and Spatial Structural Change
  • Labor Market Issues
Short biography

Born 28 February 1945 in Schleswig, married, one child

Sept. 2005 - 2008 Director, Public Policy Center, Research Events Center
July 1991 – Sept. 2005 Director, Research Department "Raumwirtschaft" (Regional Economics and Infrastructure), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
July 1992 – 1997 Director, Research Programme on "The Social Market Economy, Challenges and Conceptual Response" (sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation for four years)
Feb. 1989 – June 1991 Counsellor for Structural Policy, Economics and Statistics Department, OECD, Paris
Sept. 1969 – Jan. 1989 The Kiel Institute for the World Economy
1969–1970 Transport Research
1971–1978 Business Cycle Analysis
1978–1984 Research in Labour Markets
1984–1989 Head of Division "Regional Economics"
1984 PhD dissertation on "Staatliche Interventionen am Arbeitsmarkt. Eine Kritik" (Government Interventions in Labor Markets. A Critique), Kiel University
1964 – 1969 Study of Economics Nürnberg (1964) and Saarbrücken (1965-1969)
Selected projects