Bastian Krieger

Dr. Bastian Krieger is the Head of the Junior Research Group "Co-Creation" at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research and serves as a contact person for "Industry-Science Linkages and Technology Transfer". His work emphasizes quantitative analysis of corporate collaborations with public authorities, research institutes, industrial partners, and customers.

• PhD from University of Luxembourg
• Double Master's from University of Giessen and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Doctoral courses at University of Mannheim

Research interests include innovation economics, industrial dynamics, and knowledge transfer. His projects combine firm-level databases and policy analysis to study R&D expenditures, digitalization in SMEs, and public procurement effects on innovation.

Recent publications in Research Policy and Scientometrics explore how firms balance innovation, publishing, and IP strategies. Current projects like KIWI and PHOEBUS analyze knowledge transfer channels and private universities' economic impacts.

He collaborates with institutions such as Fraunhofer ISI, Stifterverband, and Bundesbank's Research Data Centre. Teaching roles include lectures at Technical University of Munich and KU Leuven.