Dr. Bettina Peters
Dr. Bettina Peters is an adjunct assistant professor at the Chair for Entrepreneurship at the University of Zurich and a senior researcher at the Department of Industrial Organization and International Management at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim (Germany). She is furthermore an adjunct lecturer at Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. She studied economics with majors in econometrics and statistics at the University of Kiel and received her PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Würzburg. Her main research interests are the economics of innovation, in particular productivity and employment effects of innovation, dynamics in firm innovation behavior and the relationship between competition and innovation.