His main research areas are Organization and Innovation, Innovation Research, Strategic Management and Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
Marco Kleine has been working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in the Department Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research headed by Dietmar Harhoff. He played a major role in the successful establishment and operation of econlab (Max Planck Laboratory for Experimental Research in the Social Sciences). In 2018/19, he served as an interim Professor of Strategic Management at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich.
Marco Kleine has published his research results in renowned international journals such as the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Research Policy. Currently, he is working on the role of user anonymity in organizational exchange platforms and the influence of innovation vouchers on the innovation performance of small and medium-sized enterprises.
His activities at the University of Groningen include research and teaching in the fields of innovation and strategy. He continues to be closely associated with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition as an Affiliated Research Fellow.