Dietmar Harhoff

Biography

Professor Dietmar Harhoff is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Honorary Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München.

He graduated with a Diploma degree in mechanical engineering, and started his professional career as a research engineer in the United Kingdom and Germany. He was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard University and gained his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Max Planck Institute, he was Director of the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at LMU, Research Professor at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Associate Scientific Director at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and Head of the ZEW Research Group on Corporate Taxation and Public Finance. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Applied Economics Quarterly, Review of Managerial Science, the European Management Review, Management Review Quarterly and Small Business Economics, and is an Advisory Editor of Research Policy.

Professor Harhoff is Chairman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation of the German Federal Government. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

His areas of interest are innovation research and management, entrepreneurship, strategic management, empirical economics, industrial economics, corporate finance and economic policy. His research has been published in Research Policy, Management Science, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and the Academy of Management Proceedings.