Stefan Wagner

Stefan Wagner is an associate professor of strategy (with tenure). Stefan joined ESMT Berlin in February 2011 as an assistant professor and was the TUSIAD/TCCI Chair in European Economic Integration from 2014 to 2015. Previously he was an assistant professor in the Institute of Innovation Research, Technology Management, and Entrepreneurship (INNO-tec) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Stefan received his Habilitation in 2010 and his Doctorate in Management (summa cum laude) in 2005 from LMU.

During the course of his education Stefan was supported by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation). He was Fulbright Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles UCLA and Visiting Scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research NBER, Cambridge MA, as well as at the Intellectual Property Insitute of Australia IPRIA, Melbourne. Since 2016, Stefan has been a Senior Fellow at the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP).

Stefan's research interests cover the intersection of firm strategy, technological innovation, industrial organization and law. Currently, he is primarily interested in the interaction of the changing landscape of intellectual property rights (in particular patent systems) and firms' long term strategy regarding their innovative activities. From a more practical perspective, he is also interested in venture creation and growth strategies for young firms.

Education

• Dr. habil. (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
• Dr. oec. publ. (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
• Dipl-Kfm. (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Research

Technology and Innovation Strategy

Teaching

Technology and Innovation Entrepreneurship Strategy Applied Statistics/Econometrics

Expertise

Topics

business plan (assessment), business strategy, competition (analysis), competition economics, economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organization, industry analysis, innovation (incl. strategic innovation, technology-enabled innovation), intellectual property, strategy

Areas

Americas, Europe

Languages

German, English

Presentations

Freemium pricing: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment 05/22/17: 5th Cologne Symposium, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Patents, data exclusivity, and clinical trial outcomes 05/15/17: 7th ZEW/MaCCI Conference, Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation, Mannheim, Germany

Knowing me, knowing you: inventor mobility and the formation of technology-oriented alliances * 11/20/16: 7th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan * 10/20/16: Research Seminar, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia * 07/13/16: Brown Bag Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany

What do patent-based measures tell us about product commercialization? Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry * 02/23/16: DRUID Asia, DRUID Society, Singapore, Singapore * 11/23/13: Research Seminar, Binus International University, Jakarta, Indonesia

Conflict resolution, public goods and patent thickets * 01/20/16: Research Seminar, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany * 11/12/15: 2015 Darmstadt Innovation Summit, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany * 01/22/15: MORSe seminar, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland * 11/05/14: Research Seminar, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Tokyo, Japan * 10/15/14: Research Seminar, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan * 06/16/14: DRUID Society Conference, DRUID, Copenhagen, Denmark * 10/18/13: Research Seminar, INSEAD, Singapore, Singapore * 06/05/13: The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France * 06/03/13: 5th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the economics of innovation and patenting, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition & Innovation (MaCCI), Mannheim, Germany * 06/20/12: Research Seminar, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany * 05/04/12: Conference on Patents, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, USPTO and the Marion Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Alexandria, VA, USA

Measuring patent thickets using patent references 08/07/15: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, AOM, Vancouver, Canada

Patent thickets - measurement and analyses of their impact 12/09/14: Research Seminar, Universidad Carlos III., Madrid, Spain

Patent indicators and product commercialization: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry 08/03/14: 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AoM, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Does the source of innovation matter for commercialization success? Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry. 01/18/14: Copenhagen Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2014, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark

Overcoming the localization of knowledge – Evidence from professional service firms * 07/08/13: Betriebswirtschaftliches Forschungskolloquium, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany * 06/21/13: Doctoral workshop, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

Public goods, patent thickets and conflict resolution & How to measure patent thickets 06/25/13: Research Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

The duration of patent examination at the European Patent Office 06/24/13: Research Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Product commercialization and inefficiencies in the market for technology 03/15/13: ASIA Research in innovation strategy and entrepreneurship (ARISE) Initiative Workshop 2013, NUS Business School, Singapore, Singapore

Indirect knowledge transfer - the bridging role of professional service firms * 10/14/12: APIC 2012 - Asia Pacific Innovation Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea * 10/04/12: Research Seminar Series, Yonsei University, School of Business, Seoul, South Korea * 02/01/12: Joint UNU-MERIT/School of Governance Seminars, UNU-MERIT and Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Catalysts of knowledge spill-overs 08/07/12: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, AoM, Boston, MA, USA