Alexander Ebner
Alexander Ebner (born 19 October 1967) is a German social scientist and Professor of Social Economics, esp. Economic Sociology and Political Economy at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His main research fields are Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Governance and Public Policy, Regional Development, and the History of Economics. Background Alexander Ebner received his diploma degrees in political sciences and economics from Goethe University Frankfurt. His first appointment was as a research assistant at the Institute of Economic and Social Geography at Goethe University. From 1998 to 2001, he was research and teaching assistant at the Professorship of Economics, esp. Economic Theory (Chair: Prof. Dr. Bertram Schefold) at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Goethe University. He awarded a doctorate in economics with a dissertation thesis on the theory of entrepreneurship and innovation (Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude) by the same institution in 2002. Subsequently, he was an assistant professor (C1) at the Krupp-Chair of Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at the University of Erfurt. His habilitation in 2008 was based on the interdisciplinary habilitation thesis „Governance and Public Policy“. International teaching experiences include the EuroFaculty at the Latvian University in Riga and the European Business School in Wiesbaden,