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Dietmar Harhoff is Professor of Management and Director of the Institute for Innovation Research and Technology Management (INNO-tec) at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He is also Co-Director of the ODEON Center for Entrepreneurship and Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) in Munich.
After graduating from the University of Dortmund in Mechanical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.), he spent two years as an applied researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Berlin-based Fraunhofer Institute. In 1985, he was awarded a McCloy Scholarship for a two-year study programme at Harvard University where he studied business economics and public administration. After graduating from Harvard (M.P.A. 1987), he entered the doctoral programme at the MIT Sloan School of Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his doctoral thesis (Ph.D. 1991), he 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. He is a Research Fellow at CEPR, Research Associate of the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London and of the Social Sciences Center Berlin (WZB). Dietmar Harhoff serves in a number of boards, including the supervisory board of the Siemens Technology Accelerator. He is the chairman of the scientific advisory board of Wissenschaftsstatistik GmbH which is responsible for conducting the OECD R&D surveys in Germany, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Labor and Industry (BMWA).
Dietmar Harhoffs research interests focus on the economics and management of innovation, on entrepreneurship and on industrial economics at large. In a series of recent research papers, he has studied the European patent systems and their litigation mechanisms. In another strand of his work, he has studied the relationships between German banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Moreover, he is contributing research results to the exploration and management of innovation processes at the firm level, such as the involvement of product users to new product development. His research results have been published, inter alia, in the Journal of Industrial Economics, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Research Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Management Science. For more information on his work and current activities, see his institute home page at http://www.inno-tec.de.