Homepage Introduction Program Speakers ARTICLES Links Registration Venue Contact		Heike Grimm   Biography   Heike Grimm holds the Research Lectureship for Public Policy at the University of Erfurt. She studied Political Science, Economics, History of Economics and Arabic at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Munich.   Before taking up her appointment at Erfurt, Dr. Grimm worked as Senior Fellow at the German-American Center for Visiting Scholars in Washington D.C., an institution founded by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Washington D.C., and the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD. She led a research project on business development in the Ruhr Area at the Research Institute of Public Administration of the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, and worked as research assistant at Munich University analyzing public policies which provided the economic basis for the re-unification process in Germany (funded by the Federal Ministry of Interior).   In addition, she worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Economics in Lower Saxony, the Ministry of Economics in Brandenburg, and for consultancies in Berlin, Hamburg and Brussels, Belgium. Currently, she still consults with German and European associations for small and medium-sized companies promoting public policies for SMEs and start-ups.		David B. Audretsch Iris Beckmann Thorsten Benner Albrecht Bochow William Gaines Heike Grimm Reinhard von Hennigs Dietmar Herz Ralf Kersten Paul D. Reynolds Christian Schetter Rolf Sternberg Jochen Struck James Turner Friederike Welter Charles Wessner
			University of Erfurt 2003 Contact Dr. Heike Grimm heike.grimm@uni-erfurt.de Top Phone: 0049 (0)361 / 737 - 4937 Fax: 0049 (0)361 / 737 - 4939