Focus:

• Information and communication technologies
• Digitalisation
• Research, technology and innovation policy
• Methods of empirical social research

Joachim Kaufmann studied sociology at the University of Vienna with a focus on social structure analysis and organizational sociology. Since 2017 he has been working as a research assistant at the Austrian Institute for SME Research. His field of activity includes data collection and data analysis using qualitative and quantitative methods of social research. He mainly works on studies and evaluations in the field of research, technology and innovation. His specific tasks include the development of questionnaires, conducting surveys, the evaluation and analysis of survey data by means of content-based as well as descriptive and multivariate statistical analysis methods. In addition, he supports project managers in research activities and in the context of project acquisition.