Robert Gold

Robert Gold is a researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Previously, he worked at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, where he also received his PhD from the Friedrich-Schiller University. During that time, Robert spent two semesters as visiting scholar at the Indiana University in Bloomington. Robert’s research is on innovation economics, digitalization, political economy, and entrepreneurship. He is interested in endogenous location factors in the context of globalization, digitalization effects on firm performance and entrepreneurship, and the political economy of globalization and technological change.