Prof. Dr. Andreas Pyka is director of the Department of Innovation Economics at the University of Hohenheim’s Institute of Economics. His research focuses on innovation systems, bioeconomy, innovation networks, transformation to sustainability, and digital transformation.
The innovation economist was born on 7 May 1969 in Ichenhausen and studied economics at the University of Augsburg, where he received his doctorate in 1999. Further scientific work at the Institut national de la recherche agronomique / Sociologie et économie de la recherche & développement (INRA/SERD) in Grenoble (1999-2000), at the University of Augsburg (2000-2006), at the Austrian Research Centers in Vienna (2002-2003) including a habilitation at the University of Augsburg (2004) was followed by a professorship for economic theory at the University of Bremen (2006-2009), a visiting professorship at the TU Delft in the Netherlands (2007-2008), and the appointment to the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim.
In the field of academic self-administration, he has been involved, among other things, as an elected representative of the mid-level faculty at the University of Augsburg, as an elected member of the Faculty Council for Economics at the University of Bremen, as Vice Dean in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim and, since 2011, as Vice President for International Affairs at the University of Hohenheim.
