Research Themes
- Innovation and exnovation dynamics in variegated regional and industrial contexts | processes of green and just path development and their ecological, social, and economic outcomes in space | geography of sustainability transitions | critical innovation studies: challenge-oriented regional innovation systems
- Unequal regional development | transition processes in disadvantaged and vulnerable regions | regional economic resilience
- Multiscalar flows of information and knowledge construction | global value chains and global (re)production networks | resource-making and research & development
- Strategies and policies for sustainability transitions| challenge-oriented policy frameworks in multilevel governance settings shaped by societal dynamics, new socio-technical arrangements and diverse actor groups
Research projects
- A Global Value Chain of Research & Innovation (GloRI)
- Industrial-institutional co-evolution in regional economies
- Policies for Smart Specialisation (POLISS)
- Regional industrial transitions under multiscalar exnovation pressures (RITMEP)
- Renewal of Mature Industries
- Resilienz regionaler Wirtschaften (RegReSir)
- Sustainable Smart Specialisation for the Re-opening of Industrial Sites in the Danube Region (RIS4Danu)
- Transformative Innovation for Climate Change Adaptation in the Danube Region (TiCCA4Danu) NEW