He succeeds Josef Drexl, who has been Managing Director since 2020. Dietmar Harhoff has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition since 2013 and already served as Managing Director in 2015/2016.
As of 1 January 2022, Dietmar Harhoff, head of the economics department “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research”, assumes the role of Managing Director of the Institute through biennial rotation.
He succeeds Josef Drexl, who has been Managing Director since 2020. Dietmar Harhoff has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition since 2013 and already served as Managing Director in 2015/2016.