The Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) in Mannheim, Germany is an economic research institute and a member of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. Under the leadership of the directors Thomas Kohl, Georg Licht, Martin Peitz and Thomas Fetzer, president of the Institute, and Joachim Bornkamm, chairman of the advisory board, MaCCI employs a staff of about 33 researchers and about 20 Ph.D students. The MaCCI was established in Mannheim in 2008 and is still headquartered there. MaCCI is an initiative by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Mannheim School of Law and Economics of the University of Mannheim. Launched as a virtual platform in 2008, MaCCI has become a Leibniz‐ScienceCampus as of January 2012.The institute is organized as an NGO