Dr. Rita Strohmaier
Department
Transformation of Economic and Social Systems
Function
Researcher
Specialization
Economy
Work areas
- Hydrogen and Just Transition
- Green industrialisation
- Innovation policy and sustainable development
- Global value chains
- Digital revolution
- Economic complexity
Member of
- Secretary of the Standing Field Committee 'Evolutionary Economics' at the Verein für Socialpolitik
Refereed Publications
- Altenburg, Tilman / Rita Strohmaier (2025)
Low-emission hydrogen: global value chain opportunities for latecomers and industrial policy challenges
in: Journal of International Business Policy 8, 319-340 - Schütz, Marlies / Rita Strohmaier (2022)
Power relations in European RDI-collaboration networks: disparities in policy-driven opportunities for knowledge generation in ICT
in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 31 (3), 209-230 - Heinz D. Kurz / Marlies Schütz / Rita Strohmaier / Stella S. Zilian (2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Smart Technologies: an Economic and Social Perspective
London: Routledge - Strohmaier, Rita / Marlies Schütz / Simone Vannuccini (2019)
A systemic perspective on socioeconomic: transformation in the digital age
in: Journal of Business and Industrial Economics 46, 361-378 - Steininger, Karl W. / Pablo Munoz / Jonas Karstensen / Glen P. Peters / Rita Strohmaier / Erick Velazquez (2018)
Austria’s consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions: identifying sectoral sources and destinations
in: Global Environmental Change 48, 226-242 - Haas, David / Heinz D. Kurz / Nicole Kathrin Palan / Andreas Rainer / Marlies Schütz / Rita Strohmaier (2016)
Technical change and innovation
in: Gilbert Faccarello / Heinz D. Kurz (eds.), Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, Volume III: Developments in Major Fields of Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 538-552 - Strohmaier, Rita / Andreas Rainer (2016)
Studying general purpose technologies in a multi-sector framework: the case of ICT in Denmark
in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 36, 34-49 - Muñoz, Pablo / Rita Strohmaier / Jordi Roca (2011)
On the North-South trade in the Americas and its ecological asymmetries
in: Ecological Economics 70 (11), 1981-1990
Non-refereed Publications
- UNIDO / UNEP / UNECE / AfDB / the JET Green Hydrogen Portfolio (South Africa) / IDOS / MENA Hydrogen Alliance (2025)
Guidelines for sustainable hydrogen projects in developing countries
Vienna: United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) - Kurz, Heinz D. / Rita Strohmaier / Mark Knell (2025)
Technological change: history, theory and measurement: a brief account
2025/03) - Altenburg, Tilman / Babette Never / Rita Strohmaier (2025)
Economic self-interest in German development policy: what might that look like?
(Policy Brief 14/2025) - Altenburg, Tilman / Babette Never / Rita Strohmaier (2025)
Wirtschaftliche Eigeninteressen in der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik: wie kann das aussehen?
(Policy Brief 13/2025) - Altenburg, Tilman / Anna Pegels / Mauricio Böhl Gutierrez et al. (2024)
Greening economies in partner countries: priorities for International cooperation
(Policy Brief 2/2024) - Fokeer, Smeeta / Jan Sievernich / Andrea Heredia / Emanuele Bianco / Yury Melnikov / Rita
Strohmaier / Almudena Nunez / Andreas Stamm (2023)
Green hydrogen for sustainable industrial development: a policy toolkit for developing countries
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)/International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)/German Institut of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Vienna: UNIDO - Stamm, Andreas / Tilman Altenburg / Rita Strohmaier / Ece Oyan / Katharina Thoms (2023)
Green hydrogen: implications for international cooperation: with special reference to South Africa
(Discussion Paper 9/2023) - Stamm, Andreas / Rita Strohmaier (2023)
Green hydrogen – new opportunities for sustainable development in the Global South?
in: Rural21 57 (1), 16-18 - Wietschel, Martin et al. (2022)
Krieg in der Ukraine: Auswirkungen auf die europäische und deutsche Importstrategie von Wasserstoff und Syntheseprodukten - Impulspapier
Karlsruhe: HYPAT/Fraunhofer ISI - Strohmaier, Rita (2021)
Agent of sustainable change: der unternehmerische Staat und sozio-ökologische Transformation
in: Richard Sturn / Ulrich Klüh (Hg.), Der Staat in der großen Transformation (Jahrbuch normative und institutionelle Grundfragen der Ökonomik/Bd. 19), Weimar: Metropolis Verlag - Schütz, Marlies / Rita Strohmaier / Stella Zilian (eds.) (2018)
Vom Datenkapitalismus zum Datensozialismus? Zur Bedeutung der Werke J. A. Schumpeters und T. B. Veblens in Zeiten des digitalen Wandels
in: Hans Frambach / Norbert Koubek / Heinz D. Kurz / Reinhard Pfriem (Hg.) Schöpferische Zerstörung und der Wandel des Unternehmertums, Zur Aktualität von Joseph A. Schumpeter, Weimar: Metropolis, 173-196 - Rita Strohmaier / Janie Rioux / Anika Seggel / Alexandre Meybeck / Martial Bernoux / Mirella Salvatore / Javier Miranda / Astrid Agostini (2016)
The agriculture sectors in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: analysis
in: Management Working Paper No. 62, Rom: FAO - Crafford, Jackie / Rita Strohmaier / Pablo Muñoz / Thierry De Oliveira / Christian Lambrechts / Melanie Wilkinson / Amelia Burger / Jan Bosch (2012)
The role and contribution of Montane Forests and related ecosystem services to the Kenyan economy
Nairobi: UNEP
Opinion Pieces
- Stamm, Andreas / Rita Strohmaier / Ece Oyan (2023)
With which H2 can a global hydrogen economy be constructed?
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 16 October 2023 - Altenburg, Tilman / Andreas Stamm / Rita Strohmaier (2023)
Green hydrogen – support for the just transition?
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 13 March 2023 - Stamm, Andreas / Rita Strohmaier / Tilman Altenburg / Huri Ece Oyan / Katharina Thoms (2021)
Why Germany’s hydrogen strategy needs supplementing with a multilateral agenda
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 22 September 2021
Projects
- Socio-ecological transformation of the economy
- Research Team Green hydrogen in Argentina and Uruguay: Policy making under conditions of high technological and systemic uncertainty
- Green hydrogen economy of tomorrow - (how) can developing and emerging countries benefit?
- Impulses for Socially Responsible Public Procurement of Municipalities in Global Value Chains (ISOPP)