M artin Heidenreich studied sociology and business administration in Bielefeld, Bologna und Paris. He has the Jean-Monnet Chair for European Studies in Social Sciences and is Director of the Jean Monnet Centre for Europeanisation and Transnational Regulations at the University of Oldenburg. He has published over 170 articles and books on regional innovation systems, multinational companies and the Europeanisation of national employment policies and patterns of social inequality. Recently, he coordinated two EU-financed multinational research projects on social and employment policies and a DFG-funded research group on horizontal Europeanisation.