Happy Chinese/ #LunarNewYear!✨ Thanks a lot to our Chinese colleagues and friends for this nice installation at our Institute’s meeting place! What a surprise! 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🔥🐎 🧧🥠🍬 May the year of the Fire Horse bring you bold energy, passion, and the courage to chase new horizons! #ChineseNewYear

As of 1 January 2026, Dietmar Harhoff assumes the role of Managing Director of the Institute through biennial rotation. He succeeds Josef Drexl who has been Managing Director since 2024. Dietmar Harhoff has been Director at the Institute since 2013. www.ip.mpg.de/en/the-insti...

🌟 Shape the Future of Innovation Research 🌟 The Institute seeking 3 new Directors with a transformative perspective on innovation and competition and a transdisciplinary approach. 📍 Location: Munich 📅 Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 🔗 Details: www.ip.mpg.de/en/call-for-nominations Please share!

🛎️ Program available now! #RISE8workshop: On 15 and 16 December 2025, we will host the eighth “Research in Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop” from young researchers for young researchers! www.ip.mpg.de/en/the-insti...

Dietmar Harhoff and Rafael Laguna de la Vera chart Europe’s path to digital sovereignty. From dependencies and choke points to startups, industry, and government action, the conversation emphasized: it’s time for “do mode”. Expertly hosted by Cristina Caffarra 👏 escape-forward.com/2025/11/13/e...

Gema gewinnt gegen #OpenAI: Die Entscheidung des Landgerichts #München könnte Auswirkungen weit über #Liedtexte hinaus haben, sagt Silke von Lewinski vom Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb. sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/m... @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social

The department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research, headed by Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., invites outstanding and motivated researchers to apply as Postdocs in Management or Economics. www.ip.mpg.de/fileadmin/ip...

✨ Grand Opening of Our New Premises Today we will open the doors to science at HERZOG MAX — right in the heart of Munich. We expect guests from science, politics, and society to attend the grand opening. The highlight will be the panel discussion. @maxplanck.de

#Wirtschaftsnobelpreis für #Innovationsforschung: Was sind die Lehren für Deutschland? 🇩🇪🤔 Dietmar Harhoff im Gespräch mit Dorothee Holz (Deutschlandfunk, #Wirtschaft und #Gesellschaft) www.deutschlandfunk.de/wirtschaftsn... @maxplanck.de

Sind Songtexte lizenzfreies Trainingsmaterial für generative #KI - Anbieter? Die Urheberrechtlerin Silke von Lewinski @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social erklärt die Hintergründe zum Musterverfahren gegen #OpenAI im Landgericht München. www.mpg.de/25487660/ki-...

🌟 Exciting News: Writing Fellowship Awarded to Liza Herrmann 🌟 Imagine living and working like Max Planck in his summer house by the beautiful Lake Tegernsee! What could be better than retreating into a writing sanctuary during the final phase of your dissertation?

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

📢 Exciting Insights into AI and Competition Law! 🚀 In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, strategic partnerships between tech giants and smaller AI developers are shaping both innovation and competition.

International Day of #Charity❗ How can we encourage more charitable giving? Insights in a study by Marina Chugunova, A. Nicklisch and K. Schnapp: They examine how the timing and type of donation decisions affect people’s charitable giving behavior. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @maxplanck.de

💎 Discovering hidden gems in scientific literature every Friday! 🧬🔍 What's the real benefit of carbon crediting? 🌍Scientists from the MPI for Innovation and Competition searched for an answer. Read the paper from 2024 here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53645-z #FridayFind

We are delighted that our Junior Research Fellow Elisabeth Hofmeister has been spotlighted by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in their #Women in #Research series 🌟 👉 Direct link to the inspiring interview: www.lindau-nobel.org/blog-women-i... #LiNo2025 #LINOecon #LINOecon25 @maxplanck.de

"Wir messen #KI-Systeme an viel höheren Standards als Menschen. Beim Menschen forschen wir schon seit Jahren, wie er #Entscheidungen trifft - und verstehen es immer noch nicht", sagt Marina Chugunova im #AchMensch - Podcast 🎧 detektor.fm/wissen/ach-m... Was denkt Ihr darüber?

The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of #democracy and #academicfreedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism zenodo.org/records/1569... @EU_Commission

Are you looking for a new challenge? We are looking for a new colleague! Join the team as a personal assistant (f/m/d). Please find all details online: www.ip.mpg.de/fileadmin/ip... Please share!

Haben Sie die #eID-Funktion Ihres #Personalausweises aktiviert? Nein? Dann sind Sie nicht allein ⤵️ www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/... @merose.bsky.social, Jörg #Hoffmann, Dietmar #Harhoff @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social ‬

🔎 Who in Germany has a #secure #digital #identity? 🧐 Our new study shows that only 35% of the adult German-speaking population have activated the #eID function 😦 6% are not even aware of it 😱 ❗ www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/... ❓ Have you activated your eID? Pls tell us in the comments 💬

🥂 🎓 ✨ Time to congratulate yet another brilliant Junior Research Fellow on successfully defending her doctoral thesis! Kathrin Wernsdorf presented truly inspiring research on #KnowledgeFlows in #Science and #Innovation – From the Embryonic #Internet to the #GermanReunification 💡 ❗

🙌 We are thrilled to announce that @volkswagenstiftung.de has granted funding to our pioneering project, “From Legacy to Leadership”, which strives to develop a playbook to rebuild Ukraine’s pharmaceutical industry in partnership with the EU ⚗️ 🧪 💉 💊 More information: www.ip.mpg.de/en/research/...

Closer science ties across the Atlantic: the Max Planck Society has just launched its new #Transatlantic Program to boost collaboration with top U.S. institutions & open up more chances for researchers at every level - from #PhDs & #postdocs to directors!🌍🔬 www.mpg.de/25034916/max...

🥂 🎓 ✨ Congratulations to our Junior #Research Fellow Ann-Christin Kreyer on the successful and really excellent defense of her doctoral thesis "From #Knowledge Access to #Economic #Value – Essays on #Digitalization, #Innovation and #Patent Valuation".

🌟 Call for Contributions: National Innovation Systems in Central Asia – A Cross-Disciplinary Edited Volume 🌟 We are excited to announce a call for chapter proposals for an upcoming book that delves into the evolution and future of National Innovation Systems across Central Asia. 📚

„Werterhaltung muss attraktiver werden als Wegwerfen“: In Magdeburg diskutierten die Max-Planck-Direktoren Dietmar Harhoff und Kai Sundmacher mit Susanne Kadner (Circular Republic) und Ralf P. Thomas (Siemens AG) über eine bessere Kreislaufwirtschaft. mpg.de/24954398/kre... #CircularEconomy

📢 We are happy to welcome Jordan Bisset as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition! 🙌 His research is focused in the economics of #innovation, and lies at the intersection of #organizational economics and #labor economics.

🎉We are part of the Cluster of Excellence “TransforM”, funded by @dfg.de!🎉 Jointly with @tum.de, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, @zew.de & @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social, the aim is to better understand how new technologies transform society & economy 🧑‍💻 More: transform-cluster.de

We are pleased to announce that the Max Planck Startup School, a program of the Max Planck Foundation (Max-Planck-Förderstiftung), is taking place today and tomorrow at our new location!

We wish our research fellow Germán Oscar Johannsen and the team at humanet3 the best of luck in the final round of the “Best Research Environment” award. 🤞🍀

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Returns to Physical Capital in Knowledge Production: Evidence from Lab Disasters" by Stefano Baruffaldi and Fabian Gaessler. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Our Institute has moved to its new location in the center of #Munich! You can now find us at Herzog-Max-Straße 4, 80333 Munich – directly at Karlstor/Stachus in the heart of the city. More information below 👇 #ScienceInTheCity @maxplanck.de @maxplancklaw.bsky.social

Schöne, neue Netzwelt! Was sich der Übermacht von sozialen Plattformen entgegenstellen lässt. Max-Planck-Forschende suchen Antworten für einen neuen digitalen Raum mpg.de/24535490/hum... #demokratie #socialmedia @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @mpil.de @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social

🎺Call for Papers❗️ #RISE8workshop from young researchers for young researchers! On 15/16 December 2025 in Munich. Please share the news! #Research #Innovation #Science #Entrepreneurship Submit your paper/ext. abstract until 25 July 2025. #CfP and more information: 👇 www.ip.mpg.de/fileadmin/ip...

Ever thought of using competition law to reduce the gender innovation gap? 🤔 #Innovation #GenderEquality Carolina Banda, Doctoral Candidate and Research Fellow at the Institute and co-author Ece Gizay Ban published a paper in the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice. 📚

What does AI interpretability really mean, and what are its limits? On 28 March, @fedeadolfi.bsky.social presents ‘Demystifying AI Interpretability’, an #event by ‘Max Planck Law | Tech | Society’, exploring neural network explainability for a non-technical audience: law.mpg.de/event/demyst...

#pybliometrics goes #sciencedirect! 🚀 If you need full-text content to Elsevier publications, check out the latest addition to my #opensource #python package for #bibliometrics research: pybliometrics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/re... DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2019.100263

New policy brief by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina on the #development of new #antibiotics: Leopoldina members recommend setting targeted #economic #incentives to ensure the successful treatment of bacterial infections.

Yesterday, our Doctoral Researcher Marc Huckschlag had the opportunity to present his research at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. In his talk at the IECL Seminar Series he presented “Diverging Approaches to Copyright and Design Cumulation under the EU Notion of Originality”.

Reminder: On 21 February, ‘Max Planck Law | Tech | Society’ Initiative hosts an online #event on the EU AI Act. Mark Vero will present COMPL-AI, an evaluation framework for generative AI models, focusing on large language models (LLMs). Register here: law.mpg.de/event/compli...

Many thanks to @isabelschnabel.bsky.social @ecb.europa.eu and her team for the insightful exchange on so many exciting topics! 🙏 #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Patents #UPC #R&D #Inventors #AI #Digitalization #MachineLearning #Europe 💙⭐ #Science matters, and #innovation drives #progress❗ 💡

We cordially invite you to subscribe to our quarterly newsletter 💌 #innovation #competition #IP #law #economics 💡 Issue 1/2025 is just out ❗ www.ip.mpg.de/en/newslette... Topics 🤖🚀🌱🛫❤️ #GenAI #startups #biodiversity #NetZero #charity #democracy #fairness #science #entrepreneurship #EconSky #LawSky

“Improving Freedom to Operate and Balance of Innovation Incentives in Precision Biotechnology” Hybrid presentation (in English) by Daria Kim 📅 17 February, IP Institute Tokyo If you happen to be in a time zone close to East Asian Time, register by this Friday: www.iip.or.jp/seminar/houk...

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Let’s celebrate our female researchers🎉! Meet them on our website: www.ip.mpg.de/en/the-insti... #WomenInScience

🚨 Gentle Reminder! Only five days to deadline! 📅 1️⃣ 5️⃣ February 2025 ❗ Call for Papers #CfP #MunichSummerInstitute #MSI2025 from 26-28 May 2025. ⏰ Hurry up! #Digitalization #Strategy #Organization #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Law #Economics #IP ℹ️ More information: www.ip.mpg.de/en/the-insti...

📢 Call for Papers: Fairness as a Principle of #European #Law The European Law Group invites abstract submissions for the 4th Max Planck Conference for Early Career European Scholars on 4 and 5 September 2025 in Munich by 1 April 2025. @maxplancklaw.bsky.social www.ip.mpg.de/en/the-insti...

Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year!✨ And thanks a lot to our Chinese colleagues and friends for this nice installation at our Institute's meeting place! What a surprise! 🐍🥠🍪🧧🍬🌸 #Econ #Law #ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear

Wir bilden aus 📢 Kaufleute für Büromanagement und Fachinformatiker*in Systemintegration #Ausbildung #IT #Büromanagement #Azubi Jobangebote: www.ip.mpg.de/de/das-insti... Mehr Infos zur Ausbildung: www.ip.mpg.de/de/das-insti... Gerne teilen 😊

We are thrilled to announce that our Affiliated #Research Fellow Bronwyn H. Hall was recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the American #Economic Association. Congratulations! ✨👏 #innovation #patents #R&D #productivity #econometrics #science @aeainformation.bsky.social @maxplanck.de