Dietmar Harhoff

15.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
164 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Dietmar Harhoff is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, Dietmar Harhoff has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 66 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 25 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in Dietmar Harhoff's work include Innovation Policy and R&D (71 papers), Intellectual Property and Patents (54 papers) and Firm Innovation and Growth (36 papers). Dietmar Harhoff is often cited by papers focused on Innovation Policy and R&D (71 papers), Intellectual Property and Patents (54 papers) and Firm Innovation and Growth (36 papers). Dietmar Harhoff collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Dietmar Harhoff's co-authors include F. M. Scherer, Katrin Vopel, Joachim Henkel, Georg von Graevenitz, Francis Narin, Richard Weber, Marc Gruber, Bronwyn H. Hall, Stefan Wagner and Karin Hoisl and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, Management Science and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Dietmar Harhoff

145 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Inventions

1999 1.1k citations Dietmar Harhoff et al. profile →
Citations, family size, opposition and the value of patent rights

2002 1.1k citations Dietmar Harhoff et al. Research Policy profile →
The effects of entrepreneurship education

2010 609 citations Georg von Graevenitz, Dietmar Harhoff et al. profile →
Lending relationships in Germany – Empirical evidence from survey data

1998 525 citations Dietmar Harhoff et al. profile →
Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

2012 321 citations Bronwyn H. Hall, Dietmar Harhoff profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dietmar Harhoff Germany	37	5.3k	4.7k	2.2k	2.1k	675	164	8.8k
Alfonso Gambardella Italy	38	3.7k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	4.1k 2.0×	191 0.3×	142	7.5k
Scott Stern United States	31	4.0k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	169 0.3×	96	7.2k
Reinhilde Veugelers Belgium	41	6.6k 1.2×	3.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	6.7k 3.2×	262 0.4×	206	11.7k
David C. Mowery United States	48	6.5k 1.2×	4.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	6.7k 3.2×	310 0.5×	155	12.9k
Rajshree Agarwal United States	45	3.2k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	3.3k 1.6×	320 0.5×	125	7.6k
Albert N. Link United States	53	6.5k 1.2×	6.1k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	5.5k 2.6×	258 0.4×	327	12.8k
Steven Klepper United States	40	7.8k 1.5×	3.1k 0.7×	2.6k 1.2×	4.5k 2.2×	451 0.7×	78	11.8k
John Hagedoorn Netherlands	41	4.4k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	8.4k 4.1×	306 0.5×	110	11.3k
Maryann P. Feldman United States	47	8.2k 1.6×	5.1k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	5.0k 2.4×	233 0.3×	156	14.3k
Lee Fleming United States	30	3.9k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	5.0k 2.4×	223 0.3×	69	9.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Dietmar Harhoff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dietmar Harhoff

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Harhoff, Dietmar, et al.. (2025). Who uses AI in research, and for what? Large-scale survey evidence from Germany. Research Policy. 55(2). 105381–105381.

Gaessler, Fabian, et al.. (2024). Patents, Freedom to Operate, and Follow-on Innovation: Evidence from Post-Grant Opposition. Management Science. 71(2). 1315–1334. 5 indexed citations

Gruber, Marc, et al.. (2023). Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision‐making. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 17(2). 239–265. 16 indexed citations

Harhoff, Dietmar, et al.. (2023). Modelling the large and dynamically growing bipartite network of German patents and inventors. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 186(3). 557–576. 5 indexed citations

Potts, Jason, Andrew W. Torrance, Dietmar Harhoff, & Eric von Hippel. (2023). Profiting from Data Commons: Theory, Evidence, and Strategy Implications. Strategy Science. 9(1). 1–17. 11 indexed citations

Harhoff, Dietmar, et al.. (2021). Innovation effects of universities of applied sciences: an assessment of regional heterogeneity. The Journal of Technology Transfer. 47(1). 63–118. 15 indexed citations

Gaessler, Fabian, Bronwyn H. Hall, & Dietmar Harhoff. (2020). Should there be lower taxes on patent income?. Research Policy. 50(1). 104129–104129. 30 indexed citations

Bender, Stefan, et al.. (2014). The MPI-IC-IAB-Inventor data 2002 (MIID 2002): Record-linkage of patent register data with labor market biography data of the IAB. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

Haeussler, Carolin, Dietmar Harhoff, & Elisabeth Mueller. (2014). How patenting informs VC investors – The case of biotechnology. Research Policy. 43(8). 1286–1298. 131 indexed citations

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Graevenitz, Georg von, Stefan Wagner, & Dietmar Harhoff. (2013). Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets: The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity. Journal of Industrial Economics. 61(3). 521–563. 91 indexed citations

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Harhoff, Dietmar, et al.. (2013). Innovationen auf Bestellung? Was von einer stärkeren Nachfrageorientierung in der Innovationspolitik zu halten ist. Econstor (Econstor). 66(5). 3–19. 1 indexed citations

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Gambardella, Alfonso, Dietmar Harhoff, & Bart Verspagen. (2008). The value of European patents. European Management Review. 5(2). 69–84. 26 indexed citations

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Harhoff, Dietmar, et al.. (2008). THE ROLE OF PATENTS FOR VC FINANCING. SSRN Electronic Journal. 28(3). 2. 3 indexed citations

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Giuri, Paola, Myriam Mariani, Stefano Brusoni, et al.. (2005). Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (but Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 33 indexed citations

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Gruber, Marc, Nikolaus Franke, Dietmar Harhoff, & Joachim Henkel. (2003). What you are is what you like - similarity biases in venture capitalists evaluations of start-up teams. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2 indexed citations

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Harhoff, Dietmar. (2002). R&D Spillovers, Technological Proximity, and Productivity Growth - Evidencs from German Panel Data. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Harhoff, Dietmar. (1997). Innovationsanreize in einem strukturellen Oligopolmodell. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch. 117(3). 333–364. 4 indexed citations

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Woywode, Michael, Dietmar Harhoff, & Konrad Stahl. (1996). Legal Form, Growth and Exit of West German Firms: Empirical Results for Manufacturing, Construction, Trade and Service Industries. SSRN Electronic Journal. 26 indexed citations

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Harhoff, Dietmar & Thomas J. Kane. (1995). Is the German Apprenticeship System a Panacea for the Us Labour Market. Econstor (Econstor). 46 indexed citations

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Harhoff, Dietmar. (1994). Zur steuerlichen Behandlung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaufwendungen: Eine internationale Bestandsaufnahme. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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