Predoctoral Research Fellow: Tech & Innovation

University of Vienna; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Partial remote work

Public transport access

Internal training

Competitive salary under collective-bb

Job summary

University of Vienna invites a predoc researcher to join the Research Unit Technology and Innovation Management within the Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy. You will build data pipelines, extend the Bürokratieindex, and develop indicators linking regulation to innovation outcomes.

Expect collaboration with a vibrant academic team and responsibilities spanning research, teaching, and dissertation progress.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or Diploma in economics, management, data science, law, or closely related field.
• Strong quantitative and data-management skills; R and/or Stata, and SQL proficiency.
• Experience with web scraping and crawling; NLP a plus; network analysis welcome.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated pipelines collecting legal texts from national and EU sources.
• Develop and validate measures; test predictive power for economic outcomes.
• Link regulatory data to firm-, patent- and industry-level datasets.
• Conduct empirical analyses and co-author papers for international journals.
• Complete dissertation agreement within 12–18 months.

Skills

Quantitative skills

Data management

Web scraping

NLP

Independent work

English proficiency

Education

Master's or Diploma in economics/management/data science/law/related field

Tools

R

Stata

SQL

Job description

University of Vienna invites a predoc researcher to join the Research Unit Technology and Innovation Management within the Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy. You will build data pipelines, extend the Bürokratieindex, and develop indicators linking regulation to innovation outcomes.

Expect collaboration with a vibrant academic team and responsibilities spanning research, teaching, and dissertation progress.