Renate Mayntz (born 28 April 1929,

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) is a German sociologist. She was director of the

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, and is now director emerita.

Biography

Mayntz studied in the

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, and in 1957 received her doctorate from the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

. She taught at the Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer and the

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before founding, in 1984, the

. In 1999, she won the

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, Germany's highest accolade for a social scientist, and in 2004 she was awarded the Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis. Her areas of research include

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, management policy, development and application of policies, the development of technology, science and the development of science and policy, and transnationals and the structures of

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