Hanna Hottenrott joined the TUM School of Management in May 2016. Before that, she held an assistant professorship at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) of the University of Düsseldorf. Hanna Hottenrott holds an advanced degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg and obtained a Ph.D. in applied economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2010. At KU Leuven she was affiliated with the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy, and Innovation and worked on topics related to the financing of research and development (R&D) in the business sector. After graduating, she was awarded a fellowship from the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO) and investigated questions in the fields of innovation and science policy.
In her research, Hanna Hottenrott studies innovation activities in the public and the private sector. Her research relates to the broader fields of industrial economics and applied micro-econometrics. More precisely, she works on questions in the fields of economics of innovation, the economics of science, and public innovation policy. Her work addresses private sector companies, innovation policy agents and provides implications for the design and governance of public innovation and technology policy.
Her work has been published, among others, in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Research Policy, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Studies in Higher Education, Industrial and Corporate Change, Resource and Energy Economics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Regional Science, Small Business Economics and the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Resources, Research Assessment, and Institutional Affiliations in Academia is an international and DFG-funded (HO5390/1-1) research project that explores institutional networks, motivations, and research outcomes of scientists in Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. It documents recent developments in institutional affiliation patterns in different scientific fields and finds that multiple institutional affiliations and high-impact research are highly correlated.
Direct and Cross-Scheme Effects in a Research and Development Subsidy Program studies a specific R&D policy design directed at private sector companies that explicitly distinguishes between research projects, development projects, and mixed R&D projects. Findings show that while publicly financed research grants increase firms’ research spending, development grants do not trigger additional product or process development investments. However, there are cross effects from development grants on research expenditures indicating that R&D subsidies are most effective at earlier stages of the R&D process.
