Successful PhD defense at the institute: Timo Kleiner-Schäfer

Timo Kleiner-Schaefer has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Innovation in an Emerging Economy: Firm-level Evidence from Turkey” on October 30, 2020. Due to the current coronavirus-related situation, the disputation took place in online format. The committee was chaired by J.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Nolte and consisted of supervisor Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, referee Prof. Dr. Stefan Hennemann and Prof. Dr. Benjamin Burkhard. The cumulative dissertation focused on innovation and internationalization strategies at firm level as well as university-industry collaboration barriers in the innovation-related environment of Istanbul. The dissertation can be downloaded here:  https://doi.org/10.15488/10193