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Business and Management
Germany
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
60
Citations
21205
World Ranking
535
National Ranking
16

Economics and Finance

D-Index
60
Citations
20999
World Ranking
811
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2009 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences

Overview

Dietmar Harhoff is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany. Their research spans areas within economics, management, and innovation policy, with a focus on technology and firm growth. Harhoff's work is indexed primarily in Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Business, Management and Accounting, encompassing subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's research concentrates on several key topics including:

  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Intellectual Property and Patents
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Digital Platforms and Economics

Harhoff's recent publications illustrate their engagement with current issues in innovation and technological development. Notable papers include: "Should there be lower taxes on patent income?" (2020, Research Policy), "Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions" (2021, Research Policy), "Identifying and measuring developments in artificial intelligence" (2020, OECD science, technology and industry working papers), "Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision-making" (2023, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal), and "Innovation effects of universities of applied sciences: an assessment of regional heterogeneity" (2021, The Journal of Technology Transfer).

Frequent collaborators in their research include Fabian Gaessler, Curdin Pfister, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Felix Poege, and Karin Hoisl, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Harhoff's research articles are published in a variety of academic venues, with the most frequent outlets being:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Research Policy
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Management Science
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)

In 2009, Dietmar Harhoff was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, specifically recognized within Economics and Empirical Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation

    Dietmar Harhoff;Francis Narin;Frederic M. Scherer;Katrin Vopel

  • Citations, Family Size, Opposition and the Value of Patent Rights

    Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Frederic M Scherer;Katrin Vopel

  • The effects of entrepreneurship education

    Georg von Graevenitz;Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Richard Weber

  • Investment, R&D and financial constraints in Britain and Germany

    Stephen Bond;Dietmar Harhoff;John van Reenen

  • Profiting from voluntary information spillovers: how users benefit by freely revealing their innovations

    Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Joachim Henkel;Joachim Henkel;Eric A. von Hippel

  • Lending relationships in Germany - Empirical evidence from survey data

    Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Timm Körting

  • Technology policy for a world of skew-distributed outcomes

    F.M Scherer;Dietmar Harhoff

  • The value of European patents

    Alfonso Gambardella;Dietmar Harhoff;Bart Verspagen

  • Legal Form, Growth and Exit of West German Firms : Empirical Results for Manufacturing, Construction, Trade and Service Industries

    Dietmar Harhoff;Konrad Stahl;Michaerl Woywode

  • Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey

    Paola Giuri;Myriam Mariani;Stefano Brusoni;Gustavo Crespi

  • Investment, R&D and Financial Constraints in Britain and Germany

    Stephen Bond;Dietmar Harhoff;John Van Reenen

  • Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

    Bronwyn H. Hall;Dietmar Harhoff

  • Determinants of opposition against EPO patent grants—the case of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals

    Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Markus Reitzig

  • Venture Capitalists' Evaluations of Start‐Up Teams: Trade‐Offs, Knock‐Out Criteria, and the Impact of VC Experience

    Nikolaus Franke;Marc Gruber;Dietmar Harhoff;Joachim Henkel

  • What you are is what you like—similarity biases in venture capitalists' evaluations of start-up teams

    Nikolaus Franke;Marc Gruber;Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Joachim Henkel;Joachim Henkel

  • Are There Financing Constraints for R&D and Investment in German Manufacturing Firms?

    Dietmar Harhoff

  • The Duration of Patent Examination at the European Patent Office

    Dietmar Harhoff;Stefan Wagner

  • Knowledge Recombination Across Technological Boundaries: Scientists vs. Engineers

    Marc Gruber;Dietmar Harhoff;Karin Hoisl

  • Post-Issue Patent “Quality Control:” A Comparative Study of US Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Oppositions

    Stuart J. H. Graham;Bronwyn H. Hall;Dietmar Harhoff;David C. Mowery

  • To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

    Carolin Haeussler;Dietmar Harhoff;Elisabeth Mueller

  • Is the German apprenticeship system a panacea for the U. S. labor market

    Dietmar Harhoff;Thomas J. Kane

  • R&D and Productivity in German Manufacturing Firms

    Dietmar Harhoff

  • Corporate social responsibility, multi-faceted job-products, and employee outcomes

    Shuili Du;C. B. Bhattacharya;Sankar Sen

  • Post-Issue Patent "Quality Control": A Comparative Study of US Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Oppositions

    Stuart J. H. Graham;Bronwyn H. Hall;Dietmar Harhoff;David C. Mowery

  • To Be Financed or Not : The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

    Carolin Haeussler;Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Elisabeth Mueller

Frequent Co-Authors

Bronwyn H. Hall
Bronwyn H. Hall University of California, Berkeley
Alfonso Gambardella
Alfonso Gambardella Bocconi University
Joachim Henkel
Joachim Henkel Technical University of Munich
Christoph Böhringer
Christoph Böhringer Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie Corvinus University of Budapest
Bart Verspagen
Bart Verspagen Maastricht University
David C. Mowery
David C. Mowery University of California, Berkeley
Frederic M. Scherer
Frederic M. Scherer Harvard University
Uwe Cantner
Uwe Cantner Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Thomas J. Kane
Thomas J. Kane Harvard University

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