People  |  03/03/2020

Professorship for Digital Transformation at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich for Frank Mueller-Langer

Frank Mueller-Langer, Affiliated Research Fellow at the Institute, is now Professor at the Department of Business Administration at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. His teaching and research focuses on the effects of digital transformation on firms, markets and the society.

Frank Mueller-Langer. Photo: UniBw

Frank Mueller-Langer’s main research areas are Digital Economy, Economics of Innovation and Data Economics.


Prior to his appointment to the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Frank Mueller-Langer worked as an economist at the Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission (Digital Economy Unit) in Seville and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Department Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research headed by Dietmar Harhoff. Frank Mueller-Langer was a Visiting Researcher at the renowned US universities UC Berkeley and Columbia as well as at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Today, Frank Mueller-Langer continues to be closely associated with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition as an Affiliated Research Fellow.


Frank Mueller-Langer is the author of numerous articles in renowned international journals. His works cover a broad range of topics and have received several international awards and funding, e.g., from the Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues (Best Paper Award) as well as the Sloan Foundation, the Tilburg Law and Economics Center, and the German Research Foundation. He is currently working on a study on gender wage gaps in online labour markets.


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Information of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Personal webpage of Frank Mueller-Langer

Most recent publication of Frank Mueller-Langer