Award for research on entrepeneurship in developing countries

Dr. Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada was awarded the Otto-Hahn Medal for his research on the role of the entrepreneurship in developing countries. With this medal, the Max Planck Society honours the excellent scientific performance that the graduate of the Göttingen Faculty of Economic Sciences conucted with his doctoral thesis written at the University of Göttingen on this topic. The medal for junior scientists was awarded with 5,000 Euro and was handed over during the annual general meeting of the Max Planck Society in Mainz on June 17, 2009.

In his doctoral thesis Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada examined, among other things, who can be considered as an entrpreneur in developing countries and what influence the geographical location has on an individual's occupational choice as well as the influence of the selection of a location of new businesses. In addition, he dealt with the effects of entrepreneurship on poverty. The disseration was supervised by Prof. Stephan Klasen, PhD, who teaches and researches at the University of Göttingen in the field of Development Economics, as well as by Prof. Dr. David Audretsch from the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena.

Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, born in 1980, studied mathematics at the Sri Sathya Sai University (India). He came to the University of Göttingen as a doctoral candidate in April 2004. Parallel to working towards his doctoral degree under Prof. Klasen, he took up work as a scientific employee at MPI in Jena in September of the same year. Since completion of his dissertation in October 2007 he has been engaged in a post-doctoral position. Please visit https://people.econ.mpg.de/~tamvada for further information.