Since 2014
Junior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)

2013 - 2014
Master's Thesis: „Interaction Quantum Quenches in the One-Dimensional Bose-Hubbard Model“, Supervisor: PD Dr. Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, Chair for Theoretical Nanophysics (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schollwöck), LMU Munich

2011 - 2014
Studies in Physics (Graduate, M.Sc.) at LMU Munich (semester abroad at the INP Grenoble / UJF Grenoble)

2011
Bachelor's Thesis: “Optimization of a Beam Pointing System for Quantum Cryptography“, Group “Experimental Quantum Physics“, Prof. Dr. Harald Weinfurter, Chair Prof. Dr. Theodor Hänsch, LMU Munich

2008 - 2011
Studies in Physics (Undergraduate, B.Sc.) at LMU Munich (semester abroad at the University of California, Berkeley)

Stefan Sorg, M.Sc.

Doctoral Student and Junior Research Fellow

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

+49 89 24246-589
stefan.sorg(at)ip.mpg.de

Areas of Interest:

Economics of Innovation, Economics of Litigation

Academic Résumé

Scholarships

2013 - 2014
Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium), LMU Munich

2012 - 2013
ERASMUS Scholarship for Staying at the INP Grenoble

2010
DAAD Scholarship USA for Staying at the University of California, Berkeley

Presentations and Lectures

30.08.2018
Marginal Patents and the Supply of Ideas
Doctoral Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Location: Kreuth

31.05.2018
Patent Invalidation, Inventor Productivity, and the Direction of Innovation
Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2018, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Location: Seville, Spain

14.03.2018
Patent Invalidation, Inventor Productivity, and the Direction of Innovation
Doctoral Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Location: Zugspitze

Projects

Essays on the Economics of Patents

Patents and Cumulative Innovation – Evidence from Post-Grant Patent Oppositions

SFB / TRR 190

The Selection of Patents for Litigation