Martin joined our team as a senior research associate in February, 2018. Before, he was working as a researcher in the department "Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” of the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim. The main focus of his research is on innovation in startups. Martin studied economics with elective courses in econometrics and political sciences at the Universities of Konstanz and Linköping/Sweden.