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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
