Department

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Innovation and entrepreneurship are important sources for the growth of modern economic systems and the enhancement of the prosperity and quality of life of their citizens. However, they can entail high economic and social costs and may cause major disruptions at the individual and societal level. In the context of digitalization, a number of new ethical questions arise which have an impact on the societal assessment of new technologies, new organizational forms and business models. By designing the framework conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship as well as through immediate interventions (e.g., incentive measures) policymakers are able to influence these processes. Another important field lies in the innovation management of companies which aims at improving the economic efficiency of innovation processes.

A profound scientific understanding of the causal relationships between the determinants and outcomes of innovation and entrepreneurship processes is necessary to successfully carry out such tasks. The department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research engages in research to explore and analyze these relationships from an economics perspective and contributes to the innovation discourse with other disciplines in close cooperation with the legal department of the institute.

Research Methods

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Team

Overview

Net Zero Lab

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar

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Doctoral Studies

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Field of Research
Innovation

 

Field of Research
Entrepreneurship

 

Field of Research
Innovation Motives and Behavior

 

Among the constitutive questions for the institute is the relation between innovation and IPR systems. IPR systems are one of the oldest institutions set up to encourage innovation and have attracted controversial assessments on a regular basis. The research seeks to illuminate the usually complex legal and economic microstructure of these systems. The researchers mainly study patent, trademark and copyright systems, but also the effects of data exclusivity on innovation incentives.

Innovation processes often build upon scientific research results. The “economics of science” have grown into an essential area of innovation research. Due to their high social and economic importance, they play a particularly important role in the departments’ research projects.

Governments try to generate benefits for their citizens through measures of science, research and innovation policies. Over the last decades, this policy area has gained considerable global significance. The research projects at the department analyze the efficiency of particular policies and instruments.

The opening of innovation processes for new actors and new forms of division of labor (open innovation) have led to the emergence of new approaches in innovation policy and innovation management in recent years. Open access to research results has significantly influenced the framework conditions for research and innovation.

These developments have been further accelerated by digitalization. Projects with new metrics take account of the growing importance of digitalization. Web scraping approaches as well as machine learning techniques are used to determine the similarity between patents declared as standard-essential and the descriptions of technical standards.

Projects

Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

A Firm Scientific Community

Felix Pöge, Dr. Stefano H. Baruffaldi (MPI and University of Bath)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Conference Data as a Window to Scientific and Innovation Communities

Dr. Stefano H. Baruffaldi (MPI and University of Bath)

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Corporate Innovation: The Role of Scientific Discoveries, Taxation, and Antitrust

Felix Poege

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Cross-Border Commuters and Knowledge Diffusion

Dr. Rainer Widmann, Dr. Gabriele Cristelli (Stanford University)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Digitizing Dissertation Data: Annual Directories of Publications at German Universities (1885–1987)

Michael E. Rose, Ph.D.

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Discussants

Michael E. Rose, Ph.D., Dr. Co-Pierre Georg (University of Cape Town), Daniel C. Opolot, Ph.D. (University of Cape Town)

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Enforcing and Trading Patents – Evidence for Europe

Fabian Gaessler

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Essays on Applications of Machine Learning to Science, Patent, and Economic Data

Sebastian Erhardt, M.Sc.

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Essays on Corporate Innovation and the Public Sector

Felix Pöge

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Essays on Innovation Economics

Kathrin Wernsdorf, M.Sc.

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Essays on Innovation in the Life Sciences

Elisabeth Hofmeister, M.Sc.

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Essays on Migration and Mobility

Carolin Formella, M.Sc.

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Essays on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation

Anna-Sophie Liebender-Luc, M.A.

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Essays on the Economics of Digitalization and Innovation

Ann-Christin Kreyer, M.Sc.

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Essays on the Role of Science in Patents, Patent Quality, and Diffusion

Mainak Ghosh, M.Sc.

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Estimating Technological Gains and Losses from Environmental Regulation

Dr. Albert Roger

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Firms and Innovation: Multinational Strategies, the Net-Zero Transition, and Governmental R&D Support

Cristina Rujan, M.Sc.

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

From Scientific Research to Healthcare Markets: Empirical Essays on the Economics of Pharmaceutical Innovation

Dennis Byrski

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Geography and Diversity in the Formation of Academic Collaborations Networks

Michael E. Rose, Ph.D., Krishna Dasaratha (Harvard University), Nir Hak (Harvard University), Dr. Co-Pierre Georg (University of Cape Town)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

ICT, Collaboration, and Innovation – Evidence from BITNET

Kathrin Wernsdorf, M.Sc.,  Prof. Dr. Markus Nagler (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) Prof. Dr. Martin Watzinger (University of Münster)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Informal Contacts in Hiring: The Economics Job Market

Michael E. Rose, Ph.D., Suraj Shekhar, Ph.D. (University of Cape Town)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Intellectual Property as Loan Collateral

Dr. David Heller, Laurie Ciaramella, Ph.D. (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Télécom Paris), Leo Leitzinger (Goethe University Frankfurt)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Knowledge Lost in Capital

Dr. Stefano H. Baruffaldi (MPI and University of Bath), Dr. Fabian Gaessler

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Patent Litigation in Europe

Fabian Gaessler

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Patent Transfers in Europe

Fabian Gaessler

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Patents and Cumulative Innovation – Evidence from Post-Grant Patent Oppositions

Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Dr. Fabian Gaessler, Dr. Stefan Sorg

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Patents and Technical Standards – A Semantics-Based Analysis of Essentiality Status, Standardization Governance, and Scientific Foundations

Lorenz Brachtendorf

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Patents, Data Exclusivity and the Development of New Drugs

Dr. Fabian Gaessler, Prof. Dr. Stefan Wagner (ESMT Berlin)

 
Externally funded project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Patents, Freedom to Operate, and Follow-on Innovation – Evidence from Post-Grant Opposition

Prof. Dr. Fabian Gaessler, Prof. Georg von Graevenitz, Ph.D., Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D.,  Dr. Stefan Sorg

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

pybliometrics: Scriptable Bibliometrics Using a Python Interface to Scopus

Michael E. Rose, Ph.D., John R. Kitchin (Carnegie Mellon University)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

R&D Investments, Innovation and Corporate Taxation: Evidence from German Municipalities

Felix Pöge, Dr. Ingo Isphording (IZA), Dr. Andreas Lichter (IZA), Max Löffler (Universität zu Köln), Dr. Thu-Van Nguyen (Stifterverband), Jun. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Siegloch (Universität Mannheim)

 
Externally funded project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

SFB / TRR 190

Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D.,  Dr. Anna Gumpert (LMU),  Prof. Dr. Monika Schnitzer (LMU), Dr. Marina Chugunova, Dr. Fabian Gaessler, Klaus Keller, Timm Opitz, Dr. Rainer Widmann,  Robin Mamrak (LMU),  Felix Montag (LMU),  Alessandra Allocca (LMU)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

sosia

Michael E. Rose, Ph.D., Dr. Stefano H. Baruffaldi (MPI and University of Bath)

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Structural Shocks and Political Participation in the U.S.

Dr. Marina Chugunova, Klaus Keller, M.A., Prof. Sampsa Samila, Ph.D. (IESE Business School, University of Navarra)

 
Dissertation
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

The Economics of Industrial Automation – Competition, Labor Market Power, and Political Participation

Klaus Keller, M.A.

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

The Effect of Incentives on International Mobility

Dr. Stefano H. Baruffaldi (MPI und University of Bath)

 
Externally funded project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

The Effects of Inventor Mobility on Productivity in Agglomerations and Teams – Evidence Based on Linked Inventor Biography Data

Dr. Fabian Gaessler, Dr. Jörg Heining (IAB), Prof. Dr. Karin Hoisl (MPI and University of Mannheim), Dr. Matthias Dorner (IAB), Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Felix Pöge

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

To Opt Out or Not – Strategic Decisions at the Unified Patent Court

Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Sebastian Erhardt

 
Externally funded project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Tracing the Flow of Knowledge from Science to Technology Using Deep Learning

Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Michael E. Rose, Ph.D.,  Sebastian Erhardt, M.Sc.,  Mainak Ghosh, M.Sc.,  Erik Buunk, M.Sc.,  Cheng Li, M.Sc.

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Tracing the Path from Science to Technology

Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Dr. Stefano H. Baruffaldi (MPI and University of Bath), Dr. Fabian Gaessler, Felix Pöge

 
Further research project
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

When Automation Hits Jobs – Entrepreneurship as an Alternative Career Path

Dr. Daehyun Kim,  Dr. Taekyun Kim (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) Prof. Wonjoon Kim (School of Business and Technology Management, KAIST) Prof. Hyejin Youn (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)