Martin Husovec, a scholarship holder and an IMPRS-CI doctoral candidate at the Munich-based Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, has been named Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society (CIS) for 2014-2016. Within his affiliation project, Martin Husovec will work on acquainting a broader audience with his doctoral research on the optimal accountability of Internet intermediaries for third-party wrongdoing in the field of intellectual property law. More »

Martin Husovec named Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society

Change of Management of the Institute as of January 1st, 2015
As of January 1st, 2015, Dietmar Harhoff, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition and head of the economics department "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research", takes over the management of the Institute through biennial rotation, succeeding Josef Drexl who held this position since 2013.
Dr. Arul George Scaria joins the National Law University Delhi

Prof. Dr. Frauke Henning-Bodewig in GRUR-Gesamtvorstand gewählt

PD Dr. Thomas Jaeger vertritt Lehrstuhl an Universität Hannover

Dietmar Harhoff appointed Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., has been appointed Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. With effect from March 1st, 2013, the researcher on innovation is head of the newly founded Munich Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research (MCIER). Since 1998 Prof. Harhoff has directed the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (INNO-tec) at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (LMU). He will remain associated to the LMU as honorary professor in the department of business administration. Dietmar Harhoff is also director of the Entrepreneurship Center of the LMU, as well as the chair of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI) since February 2007. The EFI Commission provides scientific advice to the German government and periodically delivers reports on research, innovation and technological productivity in Germany. The EFI 2013 annual report has been presented most recently by Dietmar Harhoff and the Commission to German Chancellor Merkel on February 27th, 2013.
With the Munich Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research, the Max Planck Institute is further extending its leading role in fundamental research on questions of the protection of intangible goods such as inventions or creative works and the legal regulation of competition mechanisms and competitive behavior. At the MCIER fundamental issues in innovation and entrepreneurship processes will be explored in six fields of research "IPR Systems and Innovation", "Science, Research and Innovation Policies", "Innovation Management", "Culture, Institutions and Innovation", "Entrepreneurship and Innovation" and "Innovation Motives and Behavior".
The new research department at the Max Planck Institute will thus continue to work within a broader framework on subjects that were formerly pursued at INNO- tec under Prof. Harhoff's direction. The Research at MCIER also serves to reinforce the MPI's interdisciplinary approach to research questions at the interface between the disciplines of law and economics.