Miscellaneous  |  06/14/2018

Program available - 6th Crowdinvesting Symposium “Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings”

On Friday, 20 July 2018, the 6th Crowdinvesting Symposium "Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings" takes place at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

The annual event was initiated by Prof. Dr. Lars Klöhn, Humboldt University Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf, University of Bremen. It was first organized in February 2013 at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich.


Since April 2016, Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf is Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition within the scope of the research project "Crowdinvesting in Germany, England and the USA: Regulatory Perspectives and Welfare Implications of a New Financing Scheme" which is funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).


The symposium offers academics and practitioners a platform to exchange ideas about the latest developments in this field as well as for networking. Moreover, it is a forum for the information of legislators on the European and national level on a scientific basis and with regard to new legislative proposals or legal reform projects. For this purposes, each year a priority topic is defined which covers current issues of crowdinvesting from an economic and legal perspective. The findings of the symposia are published in high-ranking scientific journals.


See Program

Picture of Marco Botta
People  |  06/13/2018

Marco Botta awarded habilitation in economic law

The Italian Ministry of Education and Research has awarded Marco Botta, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, a habilitation (qualification for a professorship) in the field of economic law.

Picture of Marco Botta

Link to personal page of Marco Botta

Miscellaneous  |  02/28/2018

Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI) presents Annual Report 2018 on Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany to German Chancellor Merkel

On February 28, 2018, the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation chaired by Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation, has presented the eleventh report on research, innovation and technological performance in Germany to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

f.l.t.r.: Prof. Dr. Christoph Böhringer, Prof. Dr. Monika Schnitzer, German Federal Minister of Education and Research Johanna Wanka, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Uschi Backes-Gellner, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Ott, Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner. Photo: Myriam Rion

The Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation - EFI) provides scientific advice to the German Federal Government and periodically delivers reports on research, innovation and technological productivity in Germany. A key task is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the German innovation system in an international comparison. Furthermore, Germany's perspectives as a location for research and innovation are evaluated on the basis of the latest research findings. EFI presents proposals for national research and innovation policy.

Miscellaneous  |  02/01/2018

Press release: Research on Internet user behavior: Clear rules could prevent copyright infringements

In a recent study on German consumers’ use of copyright-protected content on the internet, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition reveals surprising insights and calls on policy-makers and businesses to act.

6th Crowdinvesting Symposium
Miscellaneous  |  01/29/2018

Call for Papers - 6th Crowdinvesting Symposium “Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings”

On Friday, 20 July 2018, the 6th Crowdinvesting Symposium "Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings" takes place at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

The annual event was initiated by Prof. Dr. Lars Klöhn, Humboldt University Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf, University of Bremen. It was first organized in February 2013 at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich.


Since April 2016, Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf is Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition within the scope of the research project "Crowdinvesting in Germany, England and the USA: Regulatory Perspectives and Welfare Implications of a New Financing Scheme" which is funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).


The symposium offers academics and practitioners a platform to exchange ideas about the latest developments in this field as well as for networking. Moreover, it is a forum for the information of legislators on the European and national level on a scientific basis and with regard to new legislative proposals or legal reform projects. For this purposes, each year a priority topic is defined which covers current issues of crowdinvesting from an economic and legal perspective. The findings of the symposia are published in high-ranking scientific journals.


See Call for Papers

Munich Centre for Internet Research
Miscellaneous  |  01/10/2018

Press release: Mortal or Machine? Prizes for developers of automatic bot-recognition systems

The winners of the Munich Bot Challenge were awarded prizes at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in the Munich Residenz. The award-winning teams developed new methods to quickly detect and block opinion-generating machines, or “social bots”, on the Internet.

MSI Munich Summer Institute
Miscellaneous  |  12/19/2017

Call for Papers - Munich Summer Institute 2018

Researchers who would like to present a paper are invited to submit it online until February 15, 2018 (see below).

From June 4 to 6, 2018, the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at TUM, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition will jointly organize the third Munich Summer Institute.
 

The Summer Institute will focus on three areas:

  • Digitization, Strategy and Organization
    (chairs: Jörg Claussen and Tobias Kretschmer),
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    (chairs: Dietmar Harhoff and Joachim Henkel), and
  • Law & Economics of Intellectual Property and Innovation
    (chair: Stefan Bechtold).

The goal of the Munich Summer Institute is to stimulate a rigorous in-depth discussion of a select number of research papers and to strengthen the interdisciplinary international research community in these areas. Researchers in economics, law, management and related fields at all stages of their career (from Ph.D. students to full professors) may attend the Munich Summer Institute as presenters in a plenary or a poster session, as discussants or as attendants. The Munich Summer Institute will feature three keynote lectures, 18 plenary presentations and a daily poster session (including a poster slam). Paper presentations will be grouped by topics, not discipline or method. The Munich Summer Institute will be held at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in the heart of Munich. Participation is by invitation only. The organizers will fund travel and hotel expenses for all plenary speakers and hotel expenses for all poster presenters and invited discussants.
 

Keynote speakers are:

Paper submission procedure
Researchers who would like to present a paper are invited to submit their paper online until February 15, 2018, at the MSI website. The Munich Summer Institute only considers papers which have not been published or accepted for publication at the date of submission. Paper selections will be announced in March 2018. The program of the Munich Summer Institute will be available on April 1, 2018. Final papers will be made available to conference participants on a protected website, and are due on May 1, 2018. Researchers who would like to attend the Munich Summer Institute without giving a presentation should contact one of the organizers by May 1, 2018.
 

Further information
Any questions concerning the Munich Summer Institute should be directed to Stefan Bechtold, Jörg Claussen, Dietmar Harhoff, Joachim Henkel or Tobias Kretschmer.

Miscellaneous  |  12/06/2017

Data Room Opening

As of now, the Department for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition makes own research data available to external researchers.

Data can be accessed either locally at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, or remotely, within the scope of open access publications in the online data repository on our website.
See Data Access, Data Room and Data Repository.

Niccolo Galli erhält Elena Messina-Preis von  Filippo Alberti (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
Award  |  11/15/2017

Elena Messina Prize for Niccolò Galli

Niccolò Galli, doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, has been awarded the Elena Messina Prize by the Elena Messina Association for his dissertation “Standard essential patents litigation and abuse of a dominant position – The FRAND defense in the EU competition law context”.

Niccolo Galli erhält Elena Messina-Preis von  Filippo Alberti (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
Niccolò Galli (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), Filippo Alberti (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer). Photo: Dr. Luca Biffaro (Italian Antitrust Authority)

The prize, endowed with EUR 1,000, is conferred annually by a scientific committee composed of five prominent Italian antitrust professionals, three officers and two lawyers, for the best dissertation in the area of competition and consumer law.


The award is just one of the initiatives of the association, all of which are devoted to promoting excellence in antitrust education and practice in the memory of Elena Messina. Messina, a young and promising lawyer who graduated summa cum laude from LUISS University with a dissertation on efficiency and consumer welfare in EU and US anti-monopoly laws, died in 2012 in a road accident. She was working for the Italian Antitrust Authority at the time.


Galli was presented with the prize by the Vice President of the Association, Filippo Alberti, on 28 September 2017 at the seat of the Antitrust Authority in Rome during the conference “Competition issues related to the freedom to connect”.

Miscellaneous  |  11/07/2017

Three doctoral candidates launch their EIPIN European Joint Doctorate studies

On 1 September 2017 Letizia Tomada and Niccolò Galli from Italy, and Vicente Zafrilla from Spain began their three-year research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition with a stipend from the EIPIN European Joint Doctorate program.

Photo: EIPIN

The subject of Tomadas’ work will be “The impact of the Unified Patent Court on innovative start-ups in the European Single Market”, while Galli will examine “Predatory patent litigation in the European competition law context” and Zafrilla will devote his research to the question “Essential patents over-declaration in standards: An anticompetitive conduct?”


The European Intellectual Property Institutes Network, or EIPIN, a network founded in 1999 to intensify the cooperation between European institutions in the area of intellectual property and their students, joined the competition for funding from the EU Horizon 2020 program in early 2016. Its concept, “Innovation Society” was awarded funding in May 2016 for a European Joint Doctorate with a proposal to examine the effects of proprietary rights on the innovation potential of a society and to answer the question how such rights must be designed in order to facilitate, and not hamper, innovation.


A total of 15 doctoral candidates were accepted into the program, which will receive funding in the amount of 3.8 million euros over a four-year period. Each EIPIN member institution will supervise three of its own candidates while functioning as a co-supervisor of three of the other EIPIN members‘ candidates. As a part of the doctoral program, candidates are to complete internships at top European organisations in innovative branches (including telecommunications, music and seeds) and take part in seminars (e.g. on scientific working methods).


EIPIN’s members are the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Queen Mary University of London, University of Strasbourg (CEIPI), Alicante University and Maastricht University. The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, which was involved in the funding application as a supporting institution and which is one of the pillars of the MIPLC, will collaborate with the University of Augsburg in implementing the program and will also supervise doctoral candidates.