Dietmar Harhoff is Professor of Management and Director of the Institute for Innovation Research and Technology Management (INNO-tec) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
After graduating from the University of Dortmund in Mechanical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1984, he was awarded a McCloy Scholarship for a two-year study programme at Harvard University where he studied business economics. After graduating from Harvard (M.P.A. 1987), he entered the doctoral programme at the Sloan School of Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His doctoral thesis (Ph.D. 1991) analyzed research incentives in vertically related industries. In 1991, he joined the newly founded Centre for European Economic Research (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung - ZEW) in Mannheim where he served as Senior Research Fellow and - since 1995 - as Associate Director. Dietmar Harhoff held visiting positions at MIT and the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung - WZB) in Berlin, and in 1998 assumed his current position at the University of Munich.
His research interests focus on the economics and management of innovation, and in particular on the patent system. His most recent research results have been published, inter alia, in the Journal of Industrial Economics, Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, Research Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Management Science. For more information see http://www.inno-tec.de.