- Innovation and regional development – resilience and fragilities at the business and regional level
- Institutional determinants of sustainable development
- Plagiarism and bad scientific practice (together with prof. Jarl Kampen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and dr. hab. Eckhard Burkatzki (IHI Zittau / TU Dresden, Germany))
- Sustainable transport systems
- Sustainable financial systems
- Sustainable energy and food supply
- Transaction cost and property rights economics
- Corporate social responsibility