Maximilian Benner receives the 2024 Hans Bobek Prize

The Austrian Geographical Society has awarded the 2024 Hans Bobek Prize to Maximilian Benner—Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer in the Economic Geography group at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna—for his habilitation thesis, ‘Institutional Context and Translation in Regional Development and Policymaking Processes.’

Maximilian Benner is one of two prize recipients for 2024. His habilitation thesis—submitted at the University of Klagenfurt—explores how the institutional context of a region shapes its development, and how policy impulses from higher spatial levels are ‘translated’ into that regional institutional context.

The prize is awarded annually to up-and-coming researchers for outstanding habilitation theses or doctoral dissertations.”