Manfred Fleischer joined WZB in 1977 and retired in 2004. He is still affiliated with the WZB. He studied Business Administration and Manufacturing Engineering in Berlin at the Technical University and the Gauss Engineering College.  He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Economics from the Humboldt University, Berlin. For more than three years he worked as an Engineer at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission in Ispra (Italy). He was project manager of two WZB studies for the European Commission on innovation in the chemical industry. In 2000, he completed a study on the “Impact of EU Regulation on Innovation of European Industry” for the European Commission.  This study focused on three important policy issues related to innovation in the chemical industry. The key research question concerned the impact of the structural differences between the notification systems for new chemical substances of the EU, Japan, and the USA.

Research interest: Regulation, innovation and competitiveness, in particular the impact of regulation on innovation and competitiveness in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries

E-mail  mf@euregio-research.de

The Inefficiency Trap: Strategy Failure in the German Machine Tool Industry, Berlin: edition sigma, 1997, 233 S.

Journals

“Testing Costs and Testing Capacity According to the REACH Requirements – Results of a Survey of Independent and Corporate GLP Laboratories in the EU and Switzerland”, in: Journal of Business Chemistry, Vol. 4, Issue 3, September 2007, pp. 96-114 

"Organising Product Stewardship in Large Chemical Companies", with Michael Troege, in: Journal of Business Chemistry, Vol. 1, Issue 2, September 2004, pp. 26-36 

"Regulation and Innovation in the Chemical Industry: A Comparison of the EU, Japan and the USA", in: Surface Coatings International Part B: Coatings Transactions, Vol. 86, B1, March 2003, S. 21-29 

"Regulation and Innovation: Chemicals Policies in the EU, Japan, and the USA", in: The IPTS Report, Vol. 64, May 2002 

"Innovation, Patenting and Performance", in: Économie Appliquée, vol. LII, no. 2, 1999, S. 95-119

Discussion Papers

Impact of EU Regulation on Innovation of European Industry: Regulation and Innovation in the Chemical Industry, with Sabine Kelm and Deborah Palm, Technical Report Series, Sevilla: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, October 2000, 189 p. 

"Patenting and Industrial Performance: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry", Discussion Paper FS IV 98 - 9, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1998, 22 p. 

"Innovation in the European Chemical Industry", with Horst Albach et al., Discussion Paper FS IV 96 - 26, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1996, 125 p. 

Data Appendix to EU-Project "Innovation in the European Chemical Industry: A Summary of Descriptive Statistics for the Community Innovation Survey of 1992/1993," with Horst Albach et al., Discussion Paper FS IV 96 - 26a, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1996, 145 p.

"Product Differentiation and Performance in the German Mechanical Engineering Industry", Discussion Paper FS IV 96 - 24, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1996, 34 p.