Dietmar Harhoff

Dietmar Harhoff, here in 2018 in the Hanover Congress Centrum at the New Year's reception of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Dietmar Harhoff (born August 13, 1958 in Ahlen ) is a German university professor and former chairman of the expert commission on research and innovation of the German federal government . Harhoff was professor at the LMU Munich between 1998 and 2013; since 2013 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich .

Career

In 1984 Dietmar Harhoff graduated from the University of Dortmund with a degree in mechanical engineering . He then completed a degree at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University , which he completed in 1987 with a Master of Public Administration . With a dissertation on Strategic Spillover Production, Vertical Organization, and Incentives for Research and Development , he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 .

With a habilitation thesis on Innovation in German Manufacturing Firms - Empirical Studies on Productivity, Externalities, Corporate Finance and Taxation , he obtained the Venia Legendi at the University of Mannheim in 1996 .

After brief interim positions at the Center for European Economic Research and the Berlin Science Center for Social Research , he took on a C4 professorship at the Institute for Innovation Research , Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1998 .

Dietmar Harhoff was chairman of the Federal Government's Expert Commission on Research and Innovation until 2019 , which submits an expert report on research, innovation and technological performance in Germany at the beginning of March.

Harhoff received offers from the University of Maastricht (2001), the ETH Zurich (2003) and the University of Mannheim (2006), which he turned down.

Awards and honors

In 1978 Dietmar Harhoff received the award of the Abiturientenvereinigung Ahlen eV, then he received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes from 1980 to 1984 as a student. While studying abroad at Harvard University , he received a McCloy scholarship , also from the Study Foundation . At MIT , he received a PhD scholarship and finally the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Dissertation Award in 1991 .

In 2005, Handelsblatt named him one of the top 10 economists in Germany. The Managing Intellectual Property Magazine named Harhoff one of the world's 50 most influential people in the field of Intellectual Property . In 2008 he was also appointed a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) . In 2009 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . On June 21, 2013, Harhoff received the Schumpeter School Prize from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal for his groundbreaking contributions to innovation and start-up research . In 2015 he was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Others

He is a member of the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration , the Strategic Management Society , the Verein für Socialpolitik , the Royal Economic Society , the European Economic Association and the American Economic Association .

Dietmar Harhoff is married and has three children.

Works (selection)

Dietmar Harhoff is a reviewer for numerous scientific journals such as B. the American Economic Review , the Econometrica , the journal for business research or the journal for business administration .

with Michael Müller: Price measurement and technical progress . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3989-6
Innovation activities of small and medium-sized companies: results of the Mannheim innovation panel . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1995, ISBN 3-7890-4198-X
Business start-ups: empirical analyzes for the old and new federal states . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4657-4
Corporate tax reform, innovation promotion and future investments . Nomos-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5509-3