Please follow the link below to submit your application.

Note that only applications with a CV, Job Market Paper, Cover Letter, two Letters of Recommendation, and a Research Statement will be accepted. Please have Letters of Recommendation sent directly to ie-hiring(at)ip.mpg.de or shared via EconJobMarket.org. Please upload all other documents as PDF files via the application tool. Use the section “Documents” to upload your CV and Cover Letter, and upload your Job Market Paper and Research Statement under “Optional further documents”.

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See below for further information.

Job Advertisement as pdf.

The department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research, headed by Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, invites outstanding and motivated researchers to apply as Postdocs in Economics or Management of Innovation. The term of appointment is up to three years.

Researchers at the Institute are expected to independently carry out basic research in the fields of

• Innovation (with a possible focus on intellectual property rights, digitalization and innovation, origins and impact of AI, science of science, organization of innovation processes, innovation policy, innovation addressing grand challenges)
• Entrepreneurship (e.g., entrepreneurial finance, start-up acceleration, entrepreneurship education, social and inclusive entrepreneurship)
• Behavioral Foundations (e.g., incentives for creativity, innovation motives and behavior, inventor characteristics)

They publish their work in leading academic journals. The Institute provides access to an outstanding research infrastructure, including large-scale databases and computing capacity for machine learning. The working language is English.

We encourage candidates to apply until 15 November 2024.

Note that only applications with a CV, Job Market Paper, Cover Letter, two Letters of Recommendation, and a Research Statement will be accepted. Please have Letters of Recommendation sent directly to ie-hiring(at)ip.mpg.de or shared via EconJobMarket.org. Please upload all other documents as PDF files via the application tool. Use the section “Documents” to upload your CV and Cover Letter, and upload your Job Market Paper and Research Statement under “Optional further documents”.

Application Link

• The term of appointment is up to three years and starts in Fall 2025 (or earlier).
• There are no teaching obligations.
• The gross salary is based on the German Labor Agreement for Public Service (TVöD).

• Candidates are expected to hold a Ph.D. in business administration, economics or closely related fields, or be close to finishing their Ph.D., and to have a very strong background in empirical methods. We value alignment between the group’s topics and the candidate’s research agenda.
• The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of women in areas where they are underrepresented and therefore strongly encourages women to apply. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more people with disabilities and expressly encourages them to apply.

If you have further questions, please contact ie-hiring(at)ip.mpg.de.

The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition is committed to fundamental legal and economic research on processes of innovation and competition and their regulation. Our research focuses on the incentives, determinants and implications of innovation. With an outstanding international team of scholars and excellent scientific and administrative infrastructure including our renowned library, we host academics from all over the world and actively promote young researchers. We inform and guide legal and economic discourse on an impartial basis. As an independent research institution, we provide evidence-based research results to academia, policymakers, the private sector as well as the general public.

Further information about the Max Planck Institute and the department Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research can be found on our webpage.

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