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Newsletter #4
2024
This issue concludes the sixth year of our newsletter. To date, 1,635 people have subscribed to the German or English version. We hope you enjoy reading it – and please recommend us to others!
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A new meta-study published in Nature Communications has revealed that emission reductions from climate mitigation projects are significantly lower than claimed. Benedict Probst, Head of the Net Zero Lab at the Institute, and coauthors systematically reviewed more than 60 empirical studies, uncovering substantial quality issues with carbon credits. More
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Open access (OA) represents a transformative shift in scientific publishing, aiming to ensure unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded research and data. In a new study published in Science, Frank Mueller-Langer, Affiliated Research Fellow at the Institute and Professor at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, and Mark McCabe, Professor at the SKEMA Business School, make a significant contribution to the discourse on OA by analyzing the economic, political, and institutional dynamics shaping the transformation of scholarly publishing. More
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A recent study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has confirmed the strong performance of PaECTER, a patent analysis model developed by a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. The model came out on top in a comparison with other models in tasks critical to patent examination and innovation research. More
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The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has adopted a Model Law that is intended to standardize and facilitate the formation and performance of automated contracts online. As a member of the E-Commerce Working Group, Jörg Hoffmann, a researcher at the Institute, participated in several discussion rounds on the drafting of the Model Law.
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175 Years of Scientific Expertise – We Celebrate Our Jubilarians
Rudolf Kraßer, External Scientific Member of the Institute, celebrated his 90th birthday on 28 September 2024.
Hanns Ullrich, Affiliated Research Fellow at the Institute, celebrated his 85th birthday on 16 October 2024.
We warmly congratulate both scientists!
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In Brief
Podcast + + + Benedict Probst, Head of the Net Zero Lab at the Institute, presents various methods for removing CO2 from the atmosphere and classifies their potential in a podcast (in German). More
People + + + David Heller has been Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Innovation (tenure track) at the Politecnico di Milano since September 2024. He remains closely associated with the Institute as an Affiliated Research Fellow. More
Visit + + + On 14 October 2024, the Institute received a delegation from the Uzbek Competition Committee for a specialist exchange. More
ScienceForUkraine + + + The fight for Ukrainian science continues. Read more in an article in Nature.
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Event
On 17 and 18 December 2024, the Institute will host the seventh “Research in Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop” from young researchers for young researchers. Participants can expect exciting topics and a stimulating exchange of ideas. Alexander Oettl, Professor at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech, will give the keynote speech on “Building Tomorrow’s Science: The Interplay of Talent, Geography, an AI”. More
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Event Report
On 3 and 4 October, the Conference on Intellectual Property, Competition and Innovation was held in Florence. The conference, jointly organized by the European University Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, presented a selection of previously unpublished papers by lawyers and economists on a wide range of topics at the intersection of intellectual property and competition law.
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Researchers from the Institute’s departments of legal and eonomics research have studied the extent to which national regulations for genome-edited foods are compatible with international trade law and have presented a preliminary assessment. In their paper, they provide an overview of global regulatory trends in this area and focus on the compatibility of the various regulatory approaches with WTO requirements. Overall, they conclude that there is significant potential for trade conflicts.
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