Dr. Wolfgang Bretschneider
Dr Wolfgang Bretschneider has been a non-resident fellow at the BIGS since 2018. He is particularly interested in economic and institutional issues of internal security and worked, among other things, on the BMBF project “The Order of the Security Market (OSiMa)". Bretschneider studied economics and music in Leipzig and received his doctorate in economics from the University of Leipzig in 2016. He is a member of the Schumpeter Center for Research on Socio-Economic Change (JSEC) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Latest Publications:
Sicherheitsverantwortung zwischen Staat und Markt – eine institutionenökonomische Analyse
in: ORDO, Vol. 70 Nr. 1, S. 89-124
Cybersicherheit als Katalysator für Innovation und Wachstum
The BIGS was commissioned by the Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (Expert Commission for Research and Innovation (EFI)) to conduct a study on the connection between cyber security and economic growth. […]
Sicherheitsverantwortung zwischen Staat und Markt – eine ordnungsökonomische Analyse
The public perception is that the state is widely considered to be responsible for security. In practice, however, a combination of state and private responsibility for security is observed. In […]