Research Focus on Digitization

Basic research

• Standardization of Automated Driving Technologies - An Opportunity for Market Entry of Emerging Regions?

  Led by: Dr. Kerstin J. Schäfer

  Team: Lennart Schott

  Year: 2022

  Funding: Leibniz Young Investigator Grants

  Duration: 2020 - 2022
• The significance of change agency for innovation and transformation in relationally peripheral regions

  Led by: PD Dr. Henning Kroll

  Year: 2022

  Funding: DFG, Förderkennziffer KR 4895/5-1, Projektnummer 490864816

  Duration: 2022 - 2025
• Societal Transformation in a Digital Society – Raising Awareness for the Participation in a Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility Transition

  Led by: Dr. Kerstin J. Schäfer und Prof. Christiane Meyer

  Team: Dmitry Boyko (Economic Geography), Tomke van Hove (Didactics) und Jonas Koch (Didactics)

  Year: 2021

  Funding: Niedersächsisches Vorab der VW-Stiftung und dem Niedersächsischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur

  Duration: 2021 - 2024
• Entrepreneurship in rural areas: scope, determinants and regional economic effects (EntreLR)

  Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg

  Team: Lennard Stolz

  Year: 2021

  Funding: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

  Duration: 2021 - 2024
• ReDiCOV - Regional economic disparities in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak: the role of digitalization and working-from-home

  Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg

  Team: Louis Knüpling

  Year: 2021

  Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

  Duration: 2021 – 2024
• Hidden Champions as a central element for the stabilization of rural areas in times of digitalization

  Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner (LUH), Prof. Dr. Stefan Hennemann (JLU Gießen)

  Team: Carsten Rietmann (LUH), Leon Worbs (LUH), Lisa Zirbes (JLU Gießen)

  Year: 2020

  Funding: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) / Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)

  Duration: 2020 - 2023
• The spatial effects of digitalisation and its regional and spatial planning policy implications

  Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg

  Team: Lukas Häfner

  Year: 2019

  Funding: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK) aus Mitteln des Niedersächsischen Vorab der VolkswagenStiftung

  Duration: 2019 - 2024
• Firm Learning in Spatial Perspective

  Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez

  Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Claudius Schiller

  Year: 2011

  Funding: Own resources

  Duration: 2009 - 2011