2013 Award Winner
Dietmar Harhoff
Germany
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Motivation
For his contributions to the study of intellectual property and its relevance for innovation and innovative entrepreneurship
Dietmar Harhoff has made significant contributions to our understanding of the role of intellectual property for innovation and entrepreneurial finance. Through a number of highly relevant publications that have appeared in leading academic journals he has advanced research in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Dietmar Harhoff has made eminent theoretical, empirical as well as institutional contributions to innovation research. He has investigated patent citations and their link to the value of patented inventions, and the incentives of firms to freely reveal their property innovations and to engage in open source activities. Moreover, he has studied the cost and benefits of patent systems in Europe and the United States.
Moreover, Harhoff’s research on venture capital (VC) and entrepreneurial finance is highly relevant for our understanding of VC-backed entrepreneurship. He has examined the decision making of venture capitalist’s (VC) with respect to the evaluation of start-up teams. Furthermore, he has studied how the patenting process may help innovative new ventures to overcome information asymmetries and how this affects the ability of new ventures to attract VC financing.
Harhoff’s research has important implications for academics and practitioners alike. His research results are relevant for strategic management as well as for economic policy. He is a member of various academic associations and editorial boards of scientific journals and he is the chairman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation established by the German government.
Finally, Harhoff’s work bridges the gap between management research and economic research which is another excellent reason to award Dietmar Harhoff with the Schumpeter School Award for Business and Economic Analysis.
Foto: David Ausserhofer
Curriculum Vitae
2013 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
1998 Honorary Professor at LMU München
1996 Venia Legendi, Universität Mannheim
1991 Ph.D, Sloan School of Management des Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1987 MPA, John F. Kennedy School of Government der Harvard University
1984 Dipl. Ing., Universität Dortmund
Award Ceremony on June 21st, 2013:
Ceremony
The ceremony of 2013 is available as Podcast in German.
Images
Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D. receiving the Prize from Prof. Dr. Michael Fallgatter, Dean of the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, Prof. Dr. Lambert T. Koch, Rector of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, and Prof. Dr. Norbert Koubek, Speaker of the Directorate of the Schumpeter School Foundation
Welcome speech of Peter Knitsch, State Secretary of the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Dr. h.c. Peter Vaupel, Chairman of the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal, Dean Prof. Dr. Michael J. Fallgatter, Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Rector Prof. Dr. Lambert T. Koch, Prof. Dr. Norbert Koubek, Schumpeter School Stiftung, andlaudatory speaker Prof. Dr. Peter Witt
