Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kerber, Germany

Economic Foundations of Innovation and Intellectual Property (Module 5)

Wolfgang Kerber is a Senior Professor at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Bonn (since 1 March 2025). From 1997 to 2024, he was Professor of Economics at University of Marburg, Germany. He was Visiting Scholar at the Law Schools of University College London, Queen Mary University of London, University of California (Irvine), Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European  University Institute (Florence, Italy), and Hauser Global Fellow at NYU Law School.
He has done research in competition policy, evolutionary and innovation economics, law and economics, and European integration. His main fields of research are (1) competition law and economics, (2) law and economics of innovation and IP, and (3) regulatory problems of the digital economy (competition, innovation, data governance, and privacy).
His recent publications are about dynamic competition and the assessment of innovation effects in competition law, interoperability in the digital economy, copyright exhaustion of digital goods, digital markets and privacy, data ownership, data rights, and data governance (e.g. access to in-vehicle data in connected cars), data access in competition law, interplay between competition law and data protection law (e.g. German Facebook case), the Digital Markets Act, and the manifold problems of IoT data governance and the EU Data Act.