Patrick Breithaupt

Digital Economy

Patrick Breithaupt holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in applied computer sciences from Heidelberg University, where he focused on machine learning, text mining and optimisation.

In his master’s thesis he dealt with the modelling and analysis of social media data and worked on the interdisciplinary research project “Wahlkampf in (a)sozialen Netzwerken” (“electoral campaigns in (non-)social networks”). After his studies, he worked as a data scientist in IT consultancy and joined ZEW’s Research Unit “Digital Economy” in July 2019.

Contact information

Patrick Breithaupt

Researcher Email patrick.breithaupt@zew.de Phone +49 (0)621 1235-217

Unit: Digital Economy

Selected Publications

Innovation Indicators Based on Firm Websites: Which Website Characteristics Predict Firm-Level Innovation Activity?

Axenbeck, Janna and Patrick Breithaupt (2021), Innovation Indicators Based on Firm Websites: Which Website Characteristics Predict Firm-Level Innovation Activity?, PLOS ONE Volume 16, Issue 4.

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Mapping Employee Mobility and Employer Networks Using Professional Network Data

Breithaupt, Patrick, Hanna Hottenrott, Christian Rammer and Konstantin Römer (2023), Mapping Employee Mobility and Employer Networks Using Professional Network Data, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-041, Mannheim

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Firm Digitalisation and Mobility – Do Covid-19-Related Changes Persist?

Axenbeck, Janna, Irene Bertschek, Patrick Breithaupt and Daniel Erdsiek (2023), Firm Digitalisation and Mobility – Do Covid-19-Related Changes Persist?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-011, Mannheim

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Measuring the Digitalisation of Firms – A Novel Text Mining Approach

Axenbeck, Janna and Patrick Breithaupt (2022), Measuring the Digitalisation of Firms – A Novel Text Mining Approach, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-065, Mannheim

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Intangible Capital Indicators Based on Web Scraping of Social Media

Breithaupt, Patrick, Reinhold Kesler, Thomas Niebel and Christian Rammer (2020), Intangible Capital Indicators Based on Web Scraping of Social Media, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-046, Mannheim

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Web-Based Innovation Indicators – Which Firm Website Characteristics Relate to Firm-Level Innovation Activity?

Axenbeck, Janna and Patrick Breithaupt (2019), Web-Based Innovation Indicators – Which Firm Website Characteristics Relate to Firm-Level Innovation Activity?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-063, Mannheim

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Digitalisierung und Energieeffizienz

Erdsiek, Daniel, Robin Sack, Patrick Breithaupt, Irene Bertschek, Thomas Niebel, Vincent Rost and Bettina Schuck (2023), Digitalisierung und Energieeffizienz, Status Quo in deutschen Unternehmen, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), Berlin

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Schwerpunktstudie Kooperationen mit digitalen Start-ups: Die Sicht etablierter Unternehmen

Erdsiek, Daniel, Robin Sack, Irene Bertschek, Patrick Breithaupt, Manuel Lauer and Thomas Niebel (2022), Schwerpunktstudie Kooperationen mit digitalen Start-ups: Die Sicht etablierter Unternehmen, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), Berlin

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KI-Startups in Deutschland

Rammer, Christian, Marius Berger, Patrick Breithaupt, Sandra Gottschalk and Jan Kinne (2022), KI-Startups in Deutschland, Eine Untersuchung zu Unternehmensgründungen im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), Berlin

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