University Assistant (Praedoc) in Regulatory Complexity and Innovation

The University of Vienna invites applications for a PhD position (Praedoc) in the research group Technology and Innovation Management at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics. The successful candidate will contribute to expanding the Bürokratieindex, a data-driven measure of regulatory complexity in German and EU law. Key tasks include developing automated pipelines for legal text acquisition, designing novel regulatory metrics (e.g., restrictiveness indicators, network complexity), and linking regulatory data to firm-level outcomes (patents, R&D, market entry). The position offers a 4-year contract with teaching duties, supervision by Prof. Stefan Wagner, and access to computational resources. Applicants must hold a master's degree in Business, Economics, Data Science, Law, or related fields, with strong quantitative skills (R/Stata/SQL), experience in web scraping/NLP, and excellent English (C1).