Patrick Breithaupt

Dr. Patrick Breithaupt is a researcher in the Digital Economy department at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in applied computer science from Heidelberg University, specializing in machine learning, text mining, and optimization.

His research focuses on leveraging firm website data to develop innovative indicators for measuring innovation activity. Key contributions include analyzing correlations between website characteristics (text content, technical maturity metrics, network patterns) and innovation status using Random Forest classification models. He has co-authored a significant study published in PLOS ONE (2021) that demonstrates how web-scraped data can enhance traditional innovation metrics.

Contact details:

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