David Heller

I am a Senior Research Fellow (postdoc) at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. My research interests are in the fields of applied microeconometrics, in particular, innovation economics, entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, corporate finance (i.e., IP-backed loans and SME finance), intellectual property rights, innovation and science policy. Most of my work focuses on the interrelation of financial resources and firm-level inventive activities, deploying combinations of micro-level datasets using financial and IP-related data.

Furthermore, I am a lecturer in Finance at Goethe Business School in Frankfurt and Vietnamese German University in Ho-Chi-Minh-City. I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt (Management and Microeconomics Department) for my dissertation On the Economics of Innovation and Corporate Finance (summa cum laude). I had research visits at Boston University (2023), the Norwegian School of Economics (2022), the Economics Department of New York University Stern School of Business (2019), the Research Data & Service Centre of Deutsche Bundesbank (2017), and Hamburg Institute of International Economics (2014).

Education

• Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2014 — 2019)
• Visiting Ph.D. at NYU Stern School of Business, Dep. Economics New York University (2019)
• M.Sc. in Economics Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2012 — 2014)
• Bachelor's degree Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg) (2008 — 2012)
• Visiting undergraduate Universitat de València (2010)

Companies

• Lecturer Goethe Business School - Goethe University Frankfurt (2020)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (2019)
• Ph.D. student and research assistant Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2014 — 2019)
• Visiting researcher NYU Stern School of Business (2019 — 2019)
• Visiting researcher Deutsche Bundesbank (2017 — 2017)
• Visiting researcher Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) (2014 — 2014)
• Strategic data analyst (intern) Lufthansa (2011 — 2011)