| 4.12.1951 | Born in Vienna |
| June 1970 | "Matura" (final examination), type: "Realschule" |
| 1971-1974 | Studies of civil engineering ("Bauingenieurwesen") and architecture at the university of technology of Vienna |
| 1974-1980 | Studies of economics and informatics ("Wirtschaftsinformatik") |
| March 1980 | Master's degree of the study of informatics and economics: Magister rerum socium et oeconomicum |
| 1980-1982 | Econometrician at the "Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries" (OPEC) in Vienna |
| 1987-1990 | Executive director and shareholder of OECON GmbH (consulting in economics and software engineering) |
| February 88 | Ph.D. in social sciences, title: Doktor rerum socium et oeconomicum |
| 1982-1992 | Assistent professor at the institute of economics and economic policy at the university of technology of Vienna |
| 1990 | Invitation as visting professor to the New School of Social Research, New York |
| Since 1993 | Associate professor at the institute of economics at the university of technology of Vienna (Habilitation) |
| 1992 - 1996 | Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 1994 - 1996 | Deputy Director of the Research Unit Socioeconomics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 1997 | Provisional Head of Department of Economics at the University of Technology |
| Since November 1998 | Deputy Head of the Institute of Economics |
| 1999 | Research Fellow at the International Centre of Electronic Commerce (Seoul, Korea) |
| October 2000 | Research Coordinator for 'Evolutionary Economics' at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, ZIF (Bielefeld, Germany) |
| October 2001 | Chairman of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2001) in Vienna, Wiener Hofburg |
| January 2002 | Scientific and Executive Director of the newly founded Institute for Monetary Economics (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute) |
| March 2002 | Member of the Board of the International Schumpeter Society |
| July 2003 | Designated President of the "Ausschuss für Evolutorische Ökonomik" of the "Verein für Socialpolitik" and member of the board of the latter (starting 01/01/2004) |
| August 2003 | Jean Monnet Chair for Political Economy of European Integration, chair granted by the Commission of the European Union |
| November 2003 | Member of the Council of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy |
| November 2003 | Member of the Senat of the University of Technology of Vienna |