The Department of Innovation Economics at the University of Hohenheim is aiming to analyse scientifically changing processes on all economic levels. 

Neo-Schumpeterian economics provide an adequate framework to examine innovation processes in their dynamic, collective and cross-linked nature. Changes triggered by innovations are central, however also the future-orientation of financial markets and of the public sector are of importance to assess the development potentialities of a national economy in an encompassing neo-Schumpeterian approach.

Following the European Lisbon Agenda, the Department of Innovation Economics focuses on the knowledge orientation of modern national economies - which includes all industries and all economic sub-systems - in research as well as in teaching.