As of 1 November 2006 Erik Brouwer is appointed as professor of Competition and Innovation. His chair is financed by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Professor Brouwer is especially interested in the interrelationships between innovation, competition and productivity. Innovation proves to be strongly affected by market forces, but there is little academic consensus about how the interrelationships work and what market type performs best in terms of innovation and productivity increases. In the coming years, professor Brouwer will work on these and other issues in the area of innovation and competition. He will be affiliated with the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and with TILEC. He can be contacted at +31 (0)20 568 6133, e-mail:
e.brouwer@uvt.nl. Read more in the
press release.
