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8688
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3870
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102

Overview

Andreas Pyka is affiliated with the University of Hohenheim in Germany. Their research spans multiple interconnected areas within business, management, and economics, focusing particularly on innovation, sustainability, and the bioeconomy.

The main fields of study covered by their work include Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Subfields of particular emphasis are Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Their research explores a range of topics such as:

  • Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  • Biotechnology and Related Fields
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Andreas Pyka include:

  • "Crisis-driven innovation and fundamental human needs: A typological framework of rapid-response COVID-19 innovations" (2021), published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "Circular economy, bioeconomy, and sustainable development goals: a systematic literature review" (2023), published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • "Modelling the bioeconomy: Emerging approaches to address policy needs" (2021), published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Diffusion of eco-innovation through inter-firm network targeting: An agent-based model" (2021), published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Diversification, structural change, and economic development" (2020), published in Journal of Evolutionary Economics

The scholar frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Journal of Innovation Economics & Management
  • Journal of Evolutionary Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Collaborative work includes frequent coauthors Sophie Urmetzer, Harold Paredes-Frigolett, Michael P. Schlaile, Kristina Bogner, and Matthias Mueller.

In addition to journal articles, Andreas Pyka has contributed to academic books published by Cambridge University Press and Springer International Publishing. Titles include "The Dynamic Metacapabilities Framework" (2025) and "Innovation, Catch-up and Sustainable Development" (2021).

Best Publications

  • How to Respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or the Second Information Technology Revolution? Dynamic New Combinations between Technology, Market, and Society through Open Innovation

    Min Hwa Lee;Jin Hyo Joseph Yun;Andreas Pyka;Dong Kyu Won

  • Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics

    Horst Hanusch;Andreas Pyka

  • Economic development by the creation of new sectors

    Pier Paolo Saviotti;Pier Paolo Saviotti;Andreas Pyka

  • Principles of Neo-Schumpeterian Economics

    Horst Hanusch;Andreas Pyka

  • Innovation networks in economics: from the incentive‐based to the knowledge‐based approaches

    Andreas Pyka

  • An Evolutionary Approach to the Theory of Entrepreneurship

    Thomas Grebel;Andreas Pyka;Horst Hanusch

  • INNOVATION NETWORKS-A SIMULATION APPROACH

    Nigel Gilbert;Andreas Pyka;Petra Ahrweiler

  • A new model for university-industry links in knowledge-based economies

    Petra Ahrweiler;Andreas Pyka;Nigel Gilbert

  • CLASSIFYING TECHNOLOGY POLICY FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE

    Uwe Cantner;Andreas Pyka

  • Innovation systems for transformations towards sustainability? Taking the normative dimension seriously

    Michael P. Schlaile;Sophie Urmetzer;Vincent Blok;Allan Dahl Andersen

  • The impact of automation on employment: just the usual structural change?

    Ben Vermeulen;Jan Kesselhut;Andreas Pyka;Pier Paolo Saviotti

  • Agent-Based Modelling: A Methodology for Neo-Schumpeterian Economics

    Andreas Pyka;Giorgio Fagiolo

  • Modern Evolutionary Economics: An Overview

    Richard R. Nelson;Giovanni Dosi;Constance E. Helfat;Andreas Pyka

  • LEARNING IN INNOVATION NETWORKS: SOME SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS

    Nigel Gilbert;Petra Ahrweiler;Andreas Pyka

  • Micro and macro dynamics: Industry life cycles, inter-sector coordination and aggregate growth

    Pier Paolo Saviotti;Pier Paolo Saviotti;Andreas Pyka

  • Absorbing Technological Spillovers: Simulations in an Evolutionary Framework

    Uwe Cantner;Andreas Pyka

  • From commodity-based value chains to biomass-based value webs: The case of sugarcane in Brazil’s bioeconomy

    Lilli Scheiterle;Alina Ulmer;Regina Birner;Andreas Pyka

  • What drives the internationalisation of innovation? Evidence from European patent data

    Bernhard Dachs;Andreas Pyka

  • Product variety, competition and economic growth

    Pier Paolo Saviotti;Andreas Pyka

  • Wissen für den Wandel – Wissenstheoretische Grundlagen einer nachhaltigen Bioökonomiepolitik

    Sophie Urmetzer;Michael P. Schlaile;Kristina Bogner;Matthias Mueller

  • Modern Evolutionary Economics

    Richard R. Nelson;Giovanni Dosi;Constance E. Helfat;Andreas Pyka

  • Innovation Networks: Theory and Practice

    Andreas Pyka;Gunter Kuppers

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel Gilbert
Nigel Gilbert University of Surrey
Jason Potts
Jason Potts RMIT University
Koen Frenken
Koen Frenken Utrecht University
Iris Lewandowski
Iris Lewandowski University of Hohenheim
Vincent Blok
Vincent Blok Erasmus University Rotterdam

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