Jan Kinne is a postdoc in the research area "Economics of Innovation and Business Dynamics" at the Center for European Economic Research. He studied geoinformatics at the University of Heidelberg and received his PhD from the University of Salzburg on the topic of "web-based innovation indicators for microgeographic analyses". He continues to conduct methodological research around the use of (text-based) web data for innovation research. He is also the founder and CEO of ISTARI.AI. The company specializes in AI-based analysis of enterprise web data.