Felix Poege

Felix Poege is an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Technology & Policy Research Initiative, Boston University. In his research, he studies innovation activities of firms, in particular how firms respond to government policy. This includes corporate knowledge sourcing from science, but also taxation and competition policy. In current work, he is studying how the breakup of world-leading chemical company IG Farben influenced competitive structure and innovation in post-war Germany. Felix received his doctorate in Economics from LMU Munich, Germany. During his doctoral studies, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, with which he remains affiliated. For more information, see his personal website [www.felixpoege.eu].