Michael König

Michael König serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Spatial Economics at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and holds a concurrent Research Fellow position at the Tinbergen Institute. He is scheduled for a visiting appointment at the University of Cambridge's Janeway Institute from May 29 to May 30, 2025, hosted by Professor Sanjeev Goyal under the 'Tax Networks, Crowds & Markets' research theme.

His scholarly work investigates the bidirectional relationship between innovation-driven technical change and networked economic structures across multiple scales. Key research domains include:

• Economics of Innovation
• Technical Change
• Economic Networks
• Innovation Networks
• Industrial Economics
• Network Economics

His methodology examines how networked interactions among actors—from individuals and firms to entire sectors and nations—both shape and are transformed by technological advancement and economic evolution.