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The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition has moved to its new location in the center of Munich. Since 1 May 2025, you can find us at Herzog-Max-Straße 4, 80333 Munich – directly at Karlstor/Stachus in the heart of Munich. The first events were already held at the end of May. On 8 July 2025, the building was presented to the public by the owner and the project developer.
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The Volkswagen Foundation has granted funding to our pioneering project, “From Legacy to Leadership”, which strives to develop a playbook to rebuild Ukraine’s pharmaceutical industry in partnership with the EU. This ambitious initiative aims to leverage the country’s rich industrial heritage and expertise to strengthen the EU’s supply networks and boost Ukraine’s economy.
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The electronic ID function (eID) was introduced to provide German citizens with a secure digital identity. But who in Germany actually has a secure digital identity? How high is the potential use of the electronic ID card? A new interdisciplinary study by the Institute now provides representative figures on the activation of the eID function of the German ID card and makes recommendations for the further development.
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The Institute has published a position statement on the revision of the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) and the accompanying guidelines. The revision is necessary because the current regulation expires on 30 April 2026.
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In March 2025, the Scientific Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) published a report on “Bureaucracy Reduction and Results-Oriented Administrative Action”, which was co-authored by Dietmar Harhoff. The report identifies why the burden of bureaucracy is increasing massively, which levers should be used to reduce bureaucracy in the areas of legislation and administration, and recommends eight specific measures.
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In Brief
Cluster of Excellence + + + The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Changes (TransforM), of which the Institute is a part, for the next seven years within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments. More
Award + + + The team of humanet3, an interdisciplinary research group in which the Institute is involved, has won the Young Academy’s “Best Research Environment 2024” award. More
Award + + + Moritz Sutterer received the Heinrich Hubmann Prize of the copyright collective VG WORT for his dissertation. More
Award + + + Adolf Dietz was honored with the Jan Löwenbach Prize by the Czech ALAI group. More
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On 24 April 2025, shortly before his 88th birthday, our long-standing colleague and friend Dr. Paul Katzenberger passed away. He was one of the Institute’s first employees: Paul Katzenberger joined the Institute for Industrial Property at the University of Munich in 1956 and was involved in every stage of the Institute’s history.
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Call for Papers
Young researchers working in the fields of Economics or Management who would like to present an empirical research paper at the 8th Research on Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop are invited to submit it until 25 July 2025.
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Event Report
The first event to be held at the Instituteʼs new premises was the Munich Summer Institute (MSI), now in its ninth year. Since its premiere in 2016, the MSI has aimed to foster networking within an international and interdisciplinary research community. It is jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the Technical University of Munich, the ISTO at LMU Munich, HEC Lausanne, and Cornell University.
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Call for Contributions
The editor Daria Kim Daria Kim invites submissions of chapter proposals for the forthcoming book National Innovation Systems across Central Asia by 10 August. The overall goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive understanding of where Central Asian states stand in terms of their visions and strategies for innovation through reflective, context-sensitive analysis.
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In his latest article, Lukas Kestler examines the extent to which breweries can use antitrust law to gain admission to the Munich Oktoberfest. He critically questions the applicability of German and European antitrust law to the behavior of the city of Munich, particularly with regard to a possible opening of the beer market at Oktoberfest to breweries that are not (yet) among the so-called traditional Munich breweries.
Lukas Kestler
Ein Prosit auf die Traditionsbrauereien? Zur Anwendung des Kartellrechts im Kontext des Oktoberfests
Kommunaljurist 22, 5 (2025)
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The authors examine the critical yet frequently overlooked gender gap in innovation. They emphasize that excluding women reinforces existing inequalities and prejudices, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare. The authors propose using competition law as a tool to close this gap by incorporating gender-specific considerations into merger analyses. Drawing on insights from feminist science and technology theory, the authors discuss how competition law frameworks could consider the social and qualitative aspects of innovation. They propose using merger control to achieve this goal by incorporating gender-specific considerations into the analysis of mergers.
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Antibiotics play a vital role in modern medicine – both in the treatment of acute infections and in infection prophylaxis, for example in the case of upcoming surgeries. However, the worldwide rise in antibiotic-resistant pathogens is rendering many common drugs ineffective. Despite this alarming development, no new classes of antimicrobial drugs have been developed since 1980. This is partly due to economic hurdles that are slowing down research and development. Against this backdrop, the Leopoldina Focus recommends economic incentives for the development of new antibiotics and shows possible ways of implementing them.
Dietmar Harhoff, Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff, Axel A. Brakhage
Ökonomische Anreize für die Entwicklung neuer antimikrobieller Wirkstoffe
Leopoldina Fokus Nr. 3, 2025.
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