Dr. Marc Scheufen

Senior Economist for Artificial Intelligence and Data Regulation

Tel: +49 221 4981-742 Mail: scheufen@iwkoeln.de Marc Scheufen

At the IW since 2018
Studies in economics at the Philipps-University Marburg
Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) in the DFG Research Training Group "Economics of the Internationalization of Law" at the University of Hamburg
University lecturer in statistics, business analytics, and “AI-supported market research” at Rheinische Hochschule, Cologne
Research interests: Data Economics, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Open Science, Economic Analysis of Law.

Topics

Digitization

Thematic clusters

Digitalisation and Climate Action

IW Publications

Engels, Barbara / Scheufen, Marc / Schmitz, Edgar, 2025, Künstliche Intelligenz als Wettbewerbsfaktor für die deutsche Wirtschaft. Empirische Befunde und Handlungsempfehlungen zum Einsatz von KI in deutschen Unternehmen, IW-Report, Nr. 33, Köln
Zur Studie

Scheufen, Marc, 2024, Hemmnisse beim Data Sharing – Entwicklung und Handlungsempfehlungen, in: IW-Trends,51. Jg., Nr. 2, S. 65-80
Zur Studie

(in cooperation with Christian Rusche)
Der Wolf im Schafspelz – Zur Ökonomik der EU-Urheberrechtsreform
IW-Kurzbericht 23/2019

Die Bedeutung des Urheberrechts im Zeitalter Künstlicher Intelligenz
IW-Kurzbericht 6/2019

(in cooperation with Christian Rusche)
On (Intellectual) Property and other Legal Frameworks in the Digital Economy
IW-Report 48/2018

Nicht-personenbezogene Daten – Der nächste Schritt zum digitalen Binnenmarkt
IW-Kurzbericht 72/2018

Expertises

Büchel, Jan / Scheufen, Marc / Engels, Barbara, 2025, Digitalisierungsindex 2024. Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft in Deutschland, Ergebnisse des Digitalisierungsindex im Rahmen des Projekts „Entwicklung und Messung der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft am Standort Deutschland”, Köln
Zur Studie

Büchel, Jan / Bakalis, Dennis / Scheufen, Marc, 2023, Digitalisierungsindex 2023. Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft in Deutschland, Kurzfassung der Ergebnisse des Digitalisierungsindex im Rahmen des Projekts „Entwicklung und Messung der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft am Standort Deutschland“ im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), Köln
Zur Studie

(in cooperation with Vera Demary, Barbara Engels, Manuel Fritsch, Henry Goecke, Alevtina Krotova, Christian Rusche, Christopher Thiele, Karl Lichtblau, Edgar Schmitz, Boris Otto, Tobias Korte, Can Azkan, Markus Spiekermann, Dominik Lis, Joshua Gelhaar, Lennart Iggenna, Lukas Maisel, Bernd Trautmann, Jens Fiedler, Osianoh Aliu, Pascal Bresser, Nils Müller)
Data Economy. Status quo der deutschen Wirtschaft & Handlungsfelder in der Data Economy
Studie für das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi), 2019

External Publications

Cuntz, Alexander / Mueller-Langer, Frank / Muscarnera, Alessio / Scheufen, Marc, 2025, Access to science and innovation in the developing world, in: Research Policy, Vol. 54, No. 3, p. 105153
Zur Studie

Mertens, Armin / Scheufen, Marc, 2024, Intellectual property and fourth industrial revolution technologies: how the patent system is shaping the future in the data-driven economy, in: European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 57, Nr. 1, pp.275-310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-023-09789-2
Zur Studie

Eger, Thomas / Scheufen, Marc, 2024, The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue, in: European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 57, No.1, pp. 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-024-09796-x
Zur Studie

Eger, Thomas / Scheufen, Marc (Hrsg.), 2024, Special Issue: The Law and Economics of the Data Economy, in: European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 57, Nr. 1-2, pp. 93-310, Springer Nature, Heidelberg
Zur Studie

Cuntz, Alexander / Mueller-Langer, Frank / Muscarnera, Alessio / Oguguo, Prince C. / Scheufen, Marc, 2024, Open Science as a Means for Development Aid. Fostering Scientific Research and Innovation, in: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as VoxEU Column,
Zur Studie

Cuntz, Alexander / Mueller-Langer, Frank / Muscarnera, Alessio / Oguguo, Prince C. /Scheufen, Marc, 2024, Access to science and innovation in the developing world, in: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Economic Research Working Paper, No.78
Zur Studie

Eger, Thomas / Scheufen, Marc (Hrsg.), 2021, Economic Perspectives on the Future of Academic Publishing, Special Issue in Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 42, Issue 8, pp. 1919-2049
Zur Studie

Eger, Thomas/ Mertens, Armin/ Scheufen, Marc, 2021, Publication Cultures and the Citation Impact of Open Access, in: Managerial and Decision Economics, early view
Zur Studie

(in cooperation with Frank Mueller-Langer, Patrick Waelbroeck)
Does Online Access Promote Research in Developing Countries? Empirical Evidence from Article-Level Data
Research Policy, 2020

Angewandte Mikroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik. Mit einer Einführung in die ökonomische Analyse des Rechts
Springer/Gabler Verlag, 2. Auflage, 2020

(in cooperation with Christian Rusche)
Sinn und Unsinn der EU-Urheberrechtsreform
Ifo Schnelldienst, 72. Jg., Heft 13, 2019, S. 3–5

Künstliche Intelligenz und Haftungsrecht – die e-Person aus ökonomischer Sicht
Wirtschaftsdienst, 99. Jg., Heft 6, 2019, S. 411–414

(in cooperation with Frank Mueller-Langer, Patrick Waelbroeck)
Does Online Access Promote Research in Developing Countries? Empirical Evidence from Article-Level Data
JRC working paper, 2018

(in cooperation with Thomas Eger)
The Economics of Open Access. On the Future of Academic Publishing
2018

Angewandte Mikroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik. Mit einer Einführung in die ökonomische Analyse des Rechts
Springer/Gabler Verlag, 2017

(in cooperation with Eberhard Feess)
Academic Copyright in the Publishing Game: A Contest Perspective
European Journal of Law and Economics, 42(2), 2016, pp. 263–294

(in cooperation with Thomas Eger, Daniel Meierrieks)
The Determinants of Open Access Publishing: Survey Evidence from the Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet)
Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 43(4), 2016, pp. 463–489

(in cooperation with Thomas Eger, Daniel Meierrieks)
The Determinants of Open Access Publishing: Survey Evidence from Germany European Journal of Law and Economics, 39(3), 2015, pp. 475–503

Copyright versus Open Access: On the Organisation and International Political Economy of Access to Scientific Knowledge
Cham et al.: Springer International Publishing, 2015

(in cooperation with Frank Mueller-Langer)
Academic Publishing and Open Access
Handke and Towse (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Digital Creative Economy, 2013, pp. 365–377

(in cooperation with Thomas Eger)
The Past and the Future of Copyright Law: Technological Change and Beyond
De Mot (Hrsg.): Liber Amicorum Boudewijn Bouckaert, de Keuren, 2012, pp. 37–65

(in cooperation with Thomas Eger)
Das Urheberrecht im Zeitenwandel: Von Gutenberg zum Cyberspace
Mueller et al. (Hrsg.): Ökonomik als allgemeine Theorie menschlichen Verhaltens, Schriften zu Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft, Band 94, 2012, pp. 15–179

(in cooperation with Frank Mueller-Langer)
Die ökonomische Analyse geistiger Eigentumsrechte
WiSt-Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, March 2011, pp. 137–142

(in cooperation with Frank Mueller-Langer)
The Google Book Search Settlement: A Law and Economics Analysis
Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues (RERCI), 8(1), 2011, pp. 7–50

(in cooperation with Chirstoph Grimpe)
Wie werthaltig sind Übernahmegerüchte
M&A Review, 5/2009, pp. 211-216

More from Dr. Marc Scheufen

IW-Report No. 33 4. July 2025 Barbara Engels / Marc Scheufen / Edgar Schmitz

Artificial Intelligence as a Competitive Factor for the German Economy

Germany has to secure its economic performance in a difficult environment. The shortage of skilled labour, stagnating productivity and weakening innovation are threatening growth and prosperity.

External Publication 29. January 2025 Alexander Cuntz* et al.

Access to science and innovation in the developing world

We examine the implications of lowering barriers to access to scientific publications for science and innovation in developing countries.

Expertise 16. January 2025 Jan Büchel / Marc Scheufen / Barbara Engels

Digitalisation Index 2024: Digitalisation of the economy in Germany

The Digitalisation Index 2024 shows that the German economy has become around 14 percent more digital in the last five years. However, despite this progress, key challenges remain: The East has not been able to escape its role as the digitalisation bottom performer in the past five years.

External Publication

how the patent system is shaping the future in the data-driven economy

External Publication 29. May 2024 Armin Mertens / Marc Scheufen in European Journal of Law and Economics

Intellectual property and fourth industrial revolution technologies: how the patent system is shaping the future in the data-driven economy

Using the classification system from the European Patent Office (EPO), we identify almost 600,000 patent applications for fourth industrial revolution technologies from 1986 to 2015.

External Publication

The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

External Publication 27. May 2024 Thomas Eger / Marc Scheufen in European Journal of Law and Economics

The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

This article intends to provide a framework to better understand the economic problems and legal challenges resulting from the transition of the European economy to a data economy.

External Publication

The Law and Economics of the Data Economy

External Publication 24. May 2024 Thomas Eger / Marc Scheufen (Eds.) in European Journal of Law and Economics

Special Issue: The Law and Economics of the Data Economy

This special issue on “The Law and Economics of the Data Economy” for the “European Journal of Law and Economics” collects 8 contributions from 15 authors of 7 countries (Belgium, Hungary, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and USA).

IW-Trends No. 2 10. May 2024 Marc Scheufen

Obstacles to Data Sharing – An Outline of Recent Developments with Policy Recommendations

The increasing networking of production processes and the ability of artificial intelligence to analyse ever larger amounts of data offer enormous potential for the German economy. To exploit this potential fully, however, data must be shared.

External Publication

Fostering Scientific Research and Innovation

External Publication 29. April 2024 *Alexander Cuntz et al.

Open Science as a Means for Development Aid: Fostering Scientific Research and Innovation

Access to prior scientific works and technical information is key to the emergence of new scientific knowledge and innovation (Moser and Biasi 2018, Nagler et al. 2019).

External Publication

Access to science and innovation in the developing world

External Publication 29. April 2024 *Alexander Cuntz et al.

Access to science and innovation in the developing world

We examine the implications of lowering barriers to online access to scientific publications for science and innovation in developing countries.

External Publication

Economic Perspectives on the Future of Academic Publishing

External Publication 14. December 2021 Thomas Eger / Marc Scheufen in Managerial and Decision Economics

Economic Perspectives on the Future of Academic Publishing

In this special issue of "Managerial and Decision Economics" we collect eight papers from 16 authors from nine countries (Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA)) analyzing the future of academic publishing from an economics perspective, dealing with (A) academic publishing and measurement of academic performance, (B) the comparison of the open versus closed access publishing regime from a social welfare perspective and (C) recent policy attempts towards the future of academic publishing in the digital world.