Munich Summer Institute

From May 20 to 22, 2026, ETH Zurich, Ludwig Maximilians University, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Cornell University, the Technical University Munich, and the University of Lausanne will jointly organize the 10th Munich Summer Institute 2026. The MSI 2026 will take place as an in-person event in Munich. The Summer Institute will be preceded by the fifth MSI Ph.D. Workshop on May 20, 2026. A best Ph.D. student paper award will be awarded during the MSI conference dinner.

Overview

The Summer Institute focuses on quantitative empirical research in three areas:

• Digitalization, Strategy and Organization
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Law & Economics of Intellectual Property, Innovation & Digitalization

The goal of the Munich Summer Institute is to stimulate a rigorous in-depth discussion of a select number of research papers and to strengthen the interdisciplinary international research community in these areas. Researchers in economics, law, management and related fields at all stages of their career (from Ph.D. students to full professors) may attend the Munich Summer Institute as presenters in a plenary or a poster session, as discussants or as attendees.

The Munich Summer Institute will feature two keynote lectures, several plenary presentations, as well as poster sessions (including poster slams). It will be held at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in the heart of Munich. There is no registration fee, but participants are expected to fund their own travel and accommodation. The Munich Summer Institute may provide limited travel scholarships in case of financial hardship.

The Call for Papers will be released towards the end of 2025, beginning of 2026.

More information is available at external page http://munich-summer-institute.org. 

Any questions concerning the Munich Summer Institute should be directed to Stefan Bechtold (), Dietmar Harhoff (), Joachim Henkel (), Hanna Hottenrott (), Tobias
Kretschmer (), Christian Peukert () or Imke Reimers ().