Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Müller
September 2015
German Graduate School of Management and Law Telephone: +49-7131-645636-860
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74076 Heilbronn Germany
Personal Data
Date of birth August 4, 1971, German citizen, married, son Gabriel (2005), daughter Julia (2009)
Academic Positions
2015 – present Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Firms, German Graduate School of Management and Law, Heilbronn
2015 – present Adjunct Professor, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – present Research Associate, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany
2010 – 2015 Professor of Innovation Management, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2006 – 2010 Senior researcher, Department of Industrial Economics and International Management, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany
2004 –2005 Research fellow, Department of Industrial Economics and International Management, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany
Fields of Research
Entrepreneurship and innovation management, especially: Organization of research and development in young companies, innovation in China, management of intellectual property, financing of innovative companies
Education
PhD in Economics London School of Economics 2000-2004,
Topic: “The Performance of Private Companies – An Empirical Investigation Into the Role of Control, Risk and Incentives”
MSc in Economics London School of Economics 1999-2000
Diplom in Economics University of Mannheim and University of California, Berkeley 1993-1999
Refereed Journal Publications
“China’s R&D Explosion – Analyzing Productivity Effects Across Ownership Types and Over Time”, with Philipp Böing and Philipp Sandner, forthcoming, Research Policy.
Nomination for the Best Paper Award, 6th Annual Conference for the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (AIE), Oxford, UK, 2013
“How Patenting Informs VC Investors – the Case of Biotechnology”, with Carolin Häussler and Dietmar Harhoff, 2014, Research Policy, 43(8), 1286-1298.
“What are the Channels for Technology Sourcing? – Panel Data Evidence from German Companies”, with Dietmar Harhoff and John van Reenen, 2014, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 23(1), 204-224.
“Entrepreneurs from Low-Skilled Immigrant Groups in Knowledge-intensive Industries – Company Characteristics, Survival and Innovative Performance”, 2014, Small Business Economics, 42(4), 871-889.
“Loan Availability and Investment – Can Innovative Companies Better Cope with Loan Denials?”, with Frank Reize, 2013, Applied Economics, 45(36), 5001-5011.
Nomination for the Best Conference Paper Award, Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Kaiserslautern, 2011
“Access to Intellectual Property for Innovation: Evidence on Problems and Coping Strategies from German Firms”, with Iain Cockburn and Megan MacGarvie, 2013, Research Policy, 42(2), 529-541. “Returns to Private Equity – Idiosyncratic Risk Does Matter!”, 2011, Review of Finance, 15(3), 545-574. “Patent Thickets, Licensing, and Innovative Performance”, with Iain Cockburn and Megan MacGarvie, 2010, Industrial and Corporate Change, 19(3), 899-925.
“The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity – Are There Differences Between Young and Old Companies?”, with Volker Zimmermann, 2009, Small Business Economics, 33(3), 303-318.
“The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies’ Patent Portfolios”, with Knut Blind and Katrin Cremers, 2009, Research Policy, 38(2), 428-436.
“Benefits of Control, Capital Structure and Company Growth”, 2008, Applied Economics, 40(21), 2721-2734.
“How Does Owners’ Exposure to Idiosyncratic Risk Influence the Capital Structure of Private Companies?”, 2008, Journal of Empirical Finance, 15(2), 185-198.
Young Economist Award of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), 2005
“Managerial Ownership and Company Performance in German Small and Medium-Sized Private Enterprises”, with Alexandra Spitz-Oener, 2006, German Economic Review, 7(2), 233-247. Refereed Proceedings
“The Role of Patents for VC Financing”, with Carolin Häussler and Dietmar Harhoff, 2008, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2008 (FER), Babson College, Massachusetts, USA, 78-93.
Working Papers
“Measuring patent quality in international comparison – Index development and application to China”, with Philipp Böing, 2015, ZEW Discussion paper No. 15-051.
Publications in Collective Volumes
“Finanzierung von Innovationen in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen [Financing of Innovation in SMEs]”, 2010, with Frank Reize (KfW, Frankfurt), in: Kollmer-von Oheimb-Loup, Gerd and Streb, Jochen (eds.) “Finanzierung von Innovationen [Financing of Innovation]”, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern, 155-167
“European Productivity, Innovation and Public Sector R&D”, 2004, with Bernd Ebersberger, Dirk Czarnitzki, Andreas Fier and Katrin Hussinger, Chapter 2 in: “European Competitiveness Report 2004, Competitiveness and Benchmarking”, European Commission, Luxembourg, 45-112.
Monographs
“Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften: Traumfach oder Albtraum?” [Engineering and Natural Sciences: Dream Subject or Nightmare?], 2006, with Jürgen Egeln, Christoph Heine, Christian Kerst and Sang-Min Park, ZEW Wirtschaftsanalysen, Vol. 81, Baden-Baden.
“Innovationspotenziale von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen” [Potential for Innovation at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises], 2006, with Birgit Aschhoff, Diana Heger, Christian Rammer, Frank Reize and Volker Zimmermann, ZEW Wirtschaftsanalysen, Vol. 79, Baden-Baden.
Other Non-refereed Publications
“Die Bedeutung der Finanzierungsstruktur für die Durchführung von Forschung und Entwicklung bei jungen technologieintensiven Unternehmen“ [The Importance of Financial Structure for the R&D Activity in Young, High-tech Companies], 2008, with Volker Zimmermann, KfW Research Mittelstands- und Strukturpolitik, 41, 27-52.
“Do Owners Make Good Managers?”, 2002, with Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Centre Piece, Centre for Economic Performance, 7(2), 25-27.
Media Work for the General Public
Research cited in: “The Top 10 Reasons Why Your Startup Needs Patents”, Forbes Leadership Forum, August 18, 2015, http://www.onforb.es/1J1vig3.
Policy statement in: “Competition with London could be the best way to forge the right connections in the North of England”, The Independent, June 25, 2014
Policy statement in: “Germany's Ruhr maps out supercity blueprint”, Financial Times Online Edition, June 24, 2014
“Wachstum managen: Staffel übergeben oder selbst laufen?”, 2014, blog contribution on http://www.fuer-gruender.de/blog/2014/06/startup-forschung-wachstum-mueller/
“Patenting Activities of Chinese Firms – Extent and the Role of Economic Policy”, with Philipp Böing, article contribution on http://www.chinese-champions.com/patenting-activities-of-chinese-firms/ “Ausländer rein”, 2012, impulse wissen, mention of own research, Frühjahr 2012, 14-19
Stipends
2009-2011 Support program for female researchers, Robert Bosch Foundation (“Fast Track”) 2001-2003 Stipend of the London School of Economics and the Financial Markets Group for PhD
studies
1996-1997 Stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study at the University of California, Berkeley
Membership in Executive Committees
Board Member of the European Financial Management Association (EFMA), 2014 – present Board Member of the Asia-Pacific Innovation Network (ap-in.org), 2014 – present
Vice-chair of the European research network “Science and Technology Research in a Knowledge-based Economy (STRIKE)”, COST action IS0604, 23 countries involved, 2007 – 2009
Ad hoc Reviewer for Journals
Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, Economics Letters, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Applied Economics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Economics of Transition, European Financial Management, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Small Business Economics, Applied Financial Economics, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Economic Surveys, Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Empirical Economics, Industry and Innovation, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, European Management Review
Ad hoc Reviewer for Research Organizations
Expert on Social Sciences Panel for the evaluation of research units in Portugal organized by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and European Science Foundation (ESF), Research Foundation Flanders, National Foundation for Science of the Republic of Croatia, Romanian National University Research Council
Academic Service
Co-organizer ZEW Workshop on Explaining Productivity Growth in Europe, America and Asia, March 23-24, 2007, Mannheim
2nd ZEW Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting,
September 19-20, 2005, Mannheim
Program Committee ZEW Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting, 2015, Mannheim
Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, 2014 – 2015 Annual Meeting TIE Section (VHB), 2014 – 2015 G-Forum, 2014 – 2015
Product Innovation Management Conference, 2014, Denver, USA University-Industry Interaction Conference, 2014, Barcelona, Spain AOM Annual Meeting, TIM and ENT division, 2011, 2014
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), 2003 – 2004
Research Grants
Research project “Composition of R&D teams along the life cycle of firms – Implications for path-dependency, recombination, innovation quality and firm success”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), grant volume Euro 312,000, 2013-2016, co-applicant.
Research project “Innovation, Competition and the Market Structure of the Market for Technology”, funded by Tilburg Law and Economics Center, Tilburg University, grant volume Euro 15,000, May 2009 – January 2010, co-applicant.
European research network “Science and Technology Research in a Knowledge-based Economy
(STRIKE)”, COST action IS0604, grant volume Euro 360,000, October 2007 – October 2011, applicant. Research project “Explaining Productivity Growth in Europe, America and Asia”, funded by the Anglo-German Foundation, grant volume Euro 990,000, July 2006 – June 2009, co-applicant and project leader for the part on innovation.
Teaching Experience
Bachelor Innovation Management (Frankfurt School) Entrepreneurship (Frankfurt School)
Applied Research Methodology (Frankfurt School)
Empirical Industrial Organization (University of Mannheim) Masters Innovation Management (Frankfurt School)
Entrepreneurship (Frankfurt School)
Economics of Innovation (University of Mannheim) Executive MBA Innovation Management (Frankfurt School)
Entrepreneurship (Frankfurt School) PhD Applied Econometrics I (Frankfurt School)
PhD Supervision
Lorna Syme, “The role of research collaborations for the future performance of young firms”, 2014 – present
Maria Hennicke, “The role of founder involvement in research for startup performance”, 2013 – present Philipp Böing, “Innovation Made in China – An Empirical Investigation into R&D, Patents, and
Productivity”, 2010 – 2015
Other Employment
Internship, National Economic Research Associates (NERA), London, UK, June-July 2001 Freelancer in full and part-time, economics department, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, 1998-1999 Freelancer in part-time, competition analysis, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, 1998
Apprenticeship in business administration, Dentaurum, J.P. Winkelstroeter KG, Ispringen, 1988-1991
Selected Research Visits
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, January 2015 University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, December 2014
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, February-March 2012 Boston University, Boston, USA, April-June 2010
Boston University, Boston, USA, October-December 2007
Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, London, UK, March 2005
Policy-related Presentations
Seminar, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland, September 19, 2013, “Access to Intellectual Property for Innovation: Evidence on Problems and Coping Strategies from German Firms”
OECD and European Commission (Innovation for growth - i4g) Workshop “Global value chains, global R&D networks and innovation performance”, Paris, France, September 9-10, 2013, “Global innovation networks and the channels of technology sourcing: A transatlantic perspective”
Expert discussion “New Tendencies in Chinese Innovation Policies”, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Berlin, July 16, 2013, “Chinese Champions – The Catching-up of Chinese Firms”
Keynote Presentations
Fifth Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2014
Invited Speaker
World Social Science Forum, Bergen, Norway, 2009
Seminar Presentations
Visiting Scholar Seminar, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia, 2015 Research Seminar, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2012 Research Seminar, Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2012
Applied Seminar for Patent Attorneys, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, (IPRIA), Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, Australia, 2012
Brown Bag Seminar, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, 2012 and 2009 NBER Productivity Lunch Seminar, Cambridge, USA, 2010 and 2007
SFB/TR-Seminar, University of Mannheim, fall 2008 and spring 2008 Research Seminar, BETA, University of Strasbourg, France, 2008
Research Seminar, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, 2007 INNO-tec Research Seminar, LMU Munich, 2006
SOOS/MSI Seminar, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2006
SFB/TR Seminar, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Berlin, 2005
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, 2005 Productivity and Innovation Seminar, CEP/IFS, London, UK, 2005
Research Seminar, Max Plank Institute of Economics, Jena, 2005 Faculty Seminar, University of Essen, 2004
Applied Economics and Econometrics Seminar, University of Mannheim, 2004 and 2002 Finance Research Seminar, University of Manchester, UK, 2003
CEP/IIM Management Research Seminar, LSE, London, UK, 2001
Selected Presentations at Conferences
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 2008, 2015
ZEW Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting, 2005, 2008, 2015 Academy of Management (AoM), Philadelphia, USA, 2014
Fifth Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2014 European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Rome, Italy, 2014
ZEW Conference on the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship, 2014
Annual Meeting of the Division “Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship” (TIE) of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), 2011, 2014
G-Forum Entrepreneurship conference, Oldenburg, Germany, 2014
Fourth Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013 Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP), 2006, 2011, 2013
Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (AIE), Oxford, UK, 2013 Third Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2012
Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), 2011 International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), 2011
Annual Meeting of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), 2004, 2005, 2007
Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007 European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), 2004, 2006
Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (VfS), 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association (EFA), 2004
Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (DGF), 2004, 2005
Symposium on Finance, Banking and Insurance, University of Karlsruhe, 2002, 2008 Annual Bank of Finland/CEPR Conference, 2008
