Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISIResearcher
Dr. Max Mittenzwei has been working as a researcher for Fraunhofer since December 2021, initially in the Innovation Policy and Transfer Design Unitand since July 2023 in the Innovative Regions Unit, both part of the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW in Leipzig. Since January 1, 2025, the unit has been part of Fraunhofer ISI in Leipzig.
Before joining Fraunhofer, he completed his doctorate at the Chair of Economic and Social Geography of Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller at the University of Greifswald. As part of his doctorate thesis “From Meta to Micro, from Fuzzy to Concrete: Examining Structures of Knowledge and Innovation in the Bioeconomy”, he used various data mining approaches (computer-aided methods to find patterns, trends or correlations in existing data sets) and network analyses to map the European bioeconomy and its actors. In addition, he analyzed value chains qualitatively for specific innovation drivers and barriers. At Fraunhofer ISI, he works on various projects that focus on structural change, regional and location analyses, knowledge transfer and cooperation processes and innovation dynamics and are methodologically based on recent, data-driven analytics.