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I am an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Organisation, Technology Management, and Entrepreneurship at University of Passau. Further, I am an affiliated Research Fellow both at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and Politecnico di Milano, School of Management. My research interests center around the fields of innovation management and entrepreneurship research, in particular,  entrepreneurial finance. Previously, I worked amongst others on research projects studying the role of intellectual property in corporate finance, the effects of policy in shaping firm-level innovation, and implications of technological change on entrepreneurial activities. I obtained my PhD in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt. In addition to the above affiliations, I am an adjunct professor and the Academic Coordinator of the Innovation School at the Norwegian School of Economics and I am the scientific advisor of the European Union Intellectual Property Office IP-backed Finance Group.

You can find my full CV here and an overview of my research on GoogleScholar.

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