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The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition is committed to #legal and #economic #research on processes of #innovation and their #regulation. Website: https://www.ip.mpg.de Imprint: https://www.ip.mpg.de/en/imprint.html
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🌟 Shape the Future of Innovation Research 🌟
The Institute seeking 3 new Directors with a transformative perspective on innovation and competition and a transdisciplinary approach.
📍 Location: Munich
📅 Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
🔗 Details: www.ip.mpg.de/en/call-for-nominations
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🛎️ Program available now! #RISE8workshop: On 15 and 16 December 2025, we will host the eighth “Research in Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop” from young researchers for young researchers!
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Dietmar Harhoff and Rafael Laguna de la Vera chart Europe’s path to digital sovereignty. From dependencies and choke points to startups, industry, and government action, the conversation emphasized: it’s time for “do mode”. Expertly hosted by Cristina Caffarra 👏
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Gema gewinnt gegen #OpenAI: Die Entscheidung des Landgerichts #München könnte Auswirkungen weit über #Liedtexte hinaus haben, sagt Silke von Lewinski vom Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb.
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The department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research, headed by Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., invites outstanding and motivated researchers to apply as Postdocs in Management or Economics.
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🏛️ Additionally, we will offer guided tours of our new location in the newly designed, listed building — an example of how urban spaces can be reimagined and filled with new life.
#Innovation #PolicyAdvice #ResearchImpact #HERZOGMAX #Munich
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👉 “Inform, Advise, Shape – Innovation Research and Politics”
Moderator: @jmwiarda.bsky.social
The leading experts Irene Bertschek (EFI), @rafbuff.bsky.social (SPRIND), @podszun.bsky.social (Monopolies Commission) and Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider (BfDI) will discuss.
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✨ Grand Opening of Our New Premises
Today we will open the doors to science at HERZOG MAX — right in the heart of Munich.
We expect guests from science, politics, and society to attend the grand opening. The highlight will be the panel discussion.
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#Wirtschaftsnobelpreis für #Innovationsforschung: Was sind die Lehren für Deutschland? 🇩🇪🤔
Dietmar Harhoff im Gespräch mit Dorothee Holz (Deutschlandfunk, #Wirtschaft und #Gesellschaft)
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Sind Songtexte lizenzfreies Trainingsmaterial für generative #KI - Anbieter? Die Urheberrechtlerin Silke von Lewinski @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social erklärt die Hintergründe zum Musterverfahren gegen #OpenAI im Landgericht München. www.mpg.de/25487660/ki-...
29.09.2025 16:02 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Liza's research focuses on whether bots should be considered a competitive threat and how they should be regulated by lawmakers.
Thanks to the Max Planck Foundation, scientists affiiated to @maxplanck.de can apply for a writing fellowship at this stunning location.
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🌟 Exciting News: Writing Fellowship Awarded to Liza Herrmann 🌟
Imagine living and working like Max Planck in his summer house by the beautiful Lake Tegernsee! What could be better than retreating into a writing sanctuary during the final phase of your dissertation?
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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
15.09.2025 09:26 — 👍 92 🔁 100 💬 0 📌 4Großartige Nachricht im Hinblick auf Entrepreneurship und Transfer - wir gratulieren!
11.09.2025 07:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0💡 The latest paper by Josef Drexl and Daria Kim examines the controversies surrounding these alliances and how competition law should respond.
🔗 Read the full paper on @ssrn.bsky.social:
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#AI #Innovation #CompetitionLaw #DigitalMarkets #OpenSource #TechPolicy
Josef Drexl and Daria Kim
📢 Exciting Insights into AI and Competition Law! 🚀
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, strategic partnerships between tech giants and smaller AI developers are shaping both innovation and competition.
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International Day of #Charity❗
How can we encourage more charitable giving?
Insights in a study by Marina Chugunova, A. Nicklisch and K. Schnapp: They examine how the timing and type of donation decisions affect people’s charitable giving behavior.
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💎 Discovering hidden gems in scientific literature every Friday! 🧬🔍
What's the real benefit of carbon crediting? 🌍Scientists from the MPI for Innovation and Competition searched for an answer.
Read the paper from 2024 here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53645-z
#FridayFind
We are delighted that our Junior Research Fellow Elisabeth Hofmeister has been spotlighted by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in their #Women in #Research series 🌟
👉 Direct link to the inspiring interview:
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#LiNo2025 #LINOecon #LINOecon25
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"Wir messen #KI-Systeme an viel höheren Standards als Menschen. Beim Menschen forschen wir schon seit Jahren, wie er #Entscheidungen trifft - und verstehen es immer noch nicht", sagt Marina Chugunova im #AchMensch - Podcast 🎧 detektor.fm/wissen/ach-m... Was denkt Ihr darüber?
22.08.2025 06:04 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of #democracy and #academicfreedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism zenodo.org/records/1569... @EU_Commission
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Das Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb betreibt rechts- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Grundlagenforschung zu Fragen rund um den Schutz immaterieller Güter, zur rechtlichen Regulierung von Wettbewerbsmechanismen und –verhalten und zu Innovationsprozessen aus ökonomischer Sicht. Die Abteilung „Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research“ befasst sich mit den Anreizen, Determinanten und Implikationen von Innovation und unternehmerischen Prozessen sowie mit deren verhaltensbezogenen Grundlagen. Die von Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., geleitete Abteilung sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n Direktionssekretär*in in Voll- oder Teilzeit – befristet auf 2 Jahre.
Are you looking for a new challenge? We are looking for a new colleague!
Join the team as a personal assistant (f/m/d).
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Haben Sie die #eID-Funktion Ihres #Personalausweises aktiviert? Nein? Dann sind Sie nicht allein ⤵️
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@merose.bsky.social, Jörg #Hoffmann, Dietmar #Harhoff @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social
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🔎 Who in Germany has a #secure #digital #identity? 🧐 Our new study shows that only 35% of the adult German-speaking population have activated the #eID function 😦 6% are not even aware of it 😱 ❗
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❓ Have you activated your eID? Pls tell us in the comments 💬
A huge thank you to the examination committee with the doctoral supervisors Dietmar Harhoff, Monika Schnitzer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), and Martin Watzinger (Universität Münster) 🙏
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🥂 🎓 ✨ Time to congratulate yet another brilliant Junior Research Fellow on successfully defending her doctoral thesis! Kathrin Wernsdorf presented truly inspiring research on #KnowledgeFlows in #Science and #Innovation – From the Embryonic #Internet to the #GermanReunification 💡 ❗
10.07.2025 12:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What lessons can we learn from past industrial rebuilding efforts? We'd love to read your insights in the comments.
09.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We will develop a comprehensive playbook to support the rebirth of Ukraine’s pharma industry. This playbook will help fill gaps in the EU’s supply networks and create a high-value added component for Ukraine’s economy by contributing to the country’s economic growth and resilience.
09.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The project is grounded in a striking observation: Ukraine was the dominant location of pharmaceutical production in the USSR, accounting for over 70% of the total Soviet pharmaceutical R&D and production capacity. Today, these capabilities remain still “in the ground and air”.
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