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Current research projects
Completed research projects

Current research projects

Basic research

  • Intelligent labor market? Effects of the AI transformation on professions, industries and regions
    Led by: Dr. Kerstin J. Schaefer
    Team: Matthias Kapa, Lennart Schott, Dr. Anne Otto, Dr. Gábor Kismihók
    Year: 2023
    Funding: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
    Duration: 2023 - 2025
  • 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
  • DISCO: Disconnected research and development: The (temporary) spatial patterns of innovation
    Led by: Dr. Kerstin J. Schaefer
    Year: 2022
    Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at London School of Economics and Political Science financed by the Horizon 2020 Program of the European Commission
    Duration: 2021 - 2022
  • DUI.REG - Measurement of the Doing-Using-Interacting mode of SMEs in structurally weak regions
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg (LuH), Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner (University of Jena), Dr. Jörg Thomä (Institute for Small Business Economics at the University of Göttingen [ifh Göttingen])
    Team: Anne-Sophie Kagel (LUH), Christoph Friedrich (LUH), Leonie Reher (University of Göttingen), Tobias Hädrich (University of Jena), Martina Buratti (University of Jena)
    Year: 2022
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in line of the funding action “WIR! - Change through innovation in the region"
    Duration: 2022 - 2025
  • 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
  • InDUI – Setting indicators to measure innovations for the Doing-Using-Interacting-Mode of SME
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Tatjana Bennat
    Year: 2021
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
    Duration: 2017 - 2021
  • China-specific features of the emergence of innovations in artificial intelligence and environmental protection: Education system, interaction between science and economy, large-scale projects
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner (LUH), Prof. Dr. Steffi Robak (LUH), Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller (University of Greifswald)
    Team: Chris Brück (LUH), Xing Liu-Schuppener (LUH), Yang Liu (University of Greifswald)
    Year: 2021
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    Duration: 2021 – 2024
  • Competitiveness through R&D internationalization : patent- and interview data based studies on a latecomer in the telecommunications industry.
    Team: Kerstin J. Schaefer, M. Sc.
    Year: 2020
    Funding: German Academic Exchange Service, Leibniz University Graduate Academy
    Duration: 2015 - 2020
  • Transferring current research findings concerning the economic development of China to the Geography classroom
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Janis Fögele (JLU Gießen), Prof. Dr. Rainer Mehren (JLU Gießen)
    Team: Sebastian Losacker
    Year: 2020
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2019 - 2020
  • Regional Innovation Profiles in China: Innovation Conditions and Types of Innovation
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Henning Kroll (ISI, Karlsruhe)
    Team: Anna-Barbara Heindl
    Year: 2020
    Funding: DFG Gz. 981/15-1
    Duration: 2017 - 2020
  • Technology Spaces - Evolution, Potential, and Policy Implications
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Tom Broekel
    Team: Louis Knuepling
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
    Duration: 2018 – 2020
  • Success factors of reciprocal knowledge transfer in Chinese-German cooperation projects: Joint competence development in the research and innovation phase
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Prof. Dr. Steffi Robak, Prof. Dr. Michael Beer, Prof. Dr. Monika Sester (all LUH)
    Team: K. Florian Schneider
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2020 - 2023
  • Implementation conditions for frugality in innovation processes
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner
    Team: Julian Barnikol
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture
    Duration: 2020 - 2023
  • Regional technological paths and relatedness of knowledge in Germany
    Led by: Juniorprofessor Dr. Tom Brökel
    Team: Dr. Lars Mewes
    Year: 2019
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2016 - 2019
  • Sino-German Cooperation Group: Study on the Internationalization of science, technology and innovation: Strategy, Policy and Practice
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rongping Mu (Fraunhofer ISI), Prof. Dr. Reinhardt Meckl (University Bayreuth)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner u.a.
    Year: 2018
    Funding: DFG und NSFC (GZ 975)
    Duration: 2014 - 2018
  • Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Germany: Institutional Distance, Local Networks and Knowledge Exchange
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller (University Greifswald)
    Team: Timon Haasis (University Gießen), Miriam Richter-Tokar (University Greifswald)
    Year: 2018
    Funding: DFG (Gz. Li981/13-1)
    Duration: 2015 - 2018
  • Weltweite Verschiebung der Innovationsdynamik? Chinas Position in globalen Innovationsnetzwerken
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Prof. Yifei Sun
    Team: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner u.a.
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen im Stifterverband (T 260/25622/2014)
    Duration: 2014 - 2016
  • Wind energy technology in Lower Saxony - A comparative approach to explain path creation and path dependence in a renewable energy.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Jasper Wellbrock
    Year: 2016
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2013 - 2016
  • An critical approach on transdisciplinary knowledge generation and knowledge transfer in spatial planning – an approach in reference to the climate change discourse
    Led by: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Timm Sebastian Wiegand
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL), Headquarters(ARL), Geschäftsstelle
    Duration: 2012 - 2015
  • The embedding of Lower Saxon organizations and regions in funded R & D collaboration networks
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Juniorprof. Dr. Tom Brökel
    Team: Christoph Rösler, Wladimir Müller, Jörg Jerusel (EU-Hochschulbüro)
    Year: 2015
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2013 - 2015
  • Creative Lower Saxony: regional distribution, spatial mobility, start-up potentials and economic relevance of creative people
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Christoph Alfken, Dipl.-Geogr. Daniel Voßen
    Year: 2015
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2011 – 2015
  • Sharing KnowlEdge Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller and 13 partners at other European universities together with one partner at the university in Morocco and Israel and one partner in Turkey
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Daria Zvirgzde
    Year: 2014
    Funding: European Union (EU) within the 7th research framework programme
    Duration: 2011 - 2014
  • Regional agility in the wake of crisis: Towards a new growth model in the Greater Pearl River Delta? (SPP 1233, 3. Phase)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. J. Revilla Diez, Dr. D. Schiller (Univerity of Hannover), Prof. Dr. I. Liefner, Dr. S. Hennemann (Univerity of Giessen), Prof. Dr. F. Kraas (University of Cologne), Dr. D. Dohse, Prof. Dr. R. Soltwedel (University of Kiel)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Dr. Wenying Fu
    Year: 2014
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG); priority programme 1233 "Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change" (2006-2012)
    Duration: 2010 - 2014
  • Advanced Monitoring and Coordination of EU R&D Policies at Regional Level (AMCER)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Jörg Jerusel
    Team: Jérôme Stuck
    Year: 2013
    Funding: EU
    Duration: 2011 - 2013
  • Regional agility and upgrading in Hong Kong and the PRD (SPP 1233 phase 2)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller (University of Hannover), Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Stefan Hennemann (University of Giessen), Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Soltwedel (University of Kiel)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Susanne Meyer, Wenying Fu
    Year: 2012
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG); priority programme 1233 "Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change" (2006-2012)
    Duration: 2009 - 2012
  • Regional Biotechnology – Establishing a Methodology and Performance Indicators for Assessing Bioclusters and Bioregions Relevant to the Knowledge-based Bio-economy (KBBE) Area
    Led by: PricewaterhouseCoopers (Luxembourg)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Year: 2011
    Funding: European Commission, DG Research
    Duration: 2009 - 2011
  • 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
  • Intangible Assets and Regional Economic Growth in Europe (IAREG)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller and 10 partners at other European universities
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Jan-Philipp Kramer
    Year: 2011
    Funding: European Union (EU) within the 7th research framework programme
    Duration: 2008 - 2011
  • Constructing Regional Advantage: Towards State-of-the-Art Regional Innovation System Policies in Europe?
    Led by: Prof. B. Asheim (Lund University, Sweden), Prof. R. Boschma (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Franz Tödtling (University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria), Markku Sotarauta (University of Tampere, Finland)
    Team: Prof. R. Boschma, Dr. Tom Broekel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
    Year: 2010
    Funding: European Science Foundation Collaborative Research
    Duration: 2008 - 2010
  • Promoting Effective Modes of University-Industry Linkages and their Evolution for Economic Catch-up in Asia
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Keun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
    Team: Dr. Daniel Schiller, Dr. Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Thailand and 11 other country teams
    Year: 2009
    Funding: International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
    Duration: 2007 - 2009
  • Informal Dynamics of Agile Firm Organisation in the Greater Pearl River Delta (SPP 1233 phase 1)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. habil. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Daniel Schiller (University of Hannover), Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Soltwedel, Dr. Dean Spinager (University of Kiel)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. habil. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Susanne Meyer
    Year: 2008
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG); priority programme 1233 "Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change" (2006-2012)
    Duration: 2006 - 2008
  • Internationalization of R&D to China – Analysis of German multinational enterprises in the field of Automobile, Chemicals and Electronics
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Juliane Bielinski
    Year: 2007
    Funding: own resources
    Duration: 2007 - 2010
  • Localised Value Systems in Regional Clusters of Production in Optical Technologies in Germany
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Schätzl, Dr. Matthias Kiese
    Team: Esther Schricke
    Year: 2007
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2005 - 2007
  • Sectoral-regional Cluster and the „New Economic Geography“ – An Empirical Test of main hypotheses for Germany
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Timo Litzenberger (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2007
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2004 - 2007
  • A Qualitative and Empirical Analysis of Spin-off Firms in Beijing, Hangzhou and Wuhan: A Contribution towards Explaining Innovation Processes in China
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Schätzl, Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg, Dr. habil. Ingo Liefner
    Team: Henning Kroll (Universität Hannover), Claudia Müller (Universität zu Köln)
    Year: 2006
    Funding: Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagenstiftung)
    Duration: 2003 - 2006
  • The changing role of public research and teaching organisations for regional and national innovative capacities in Thailand
    Led by: Prof. Dr. J. Revilla Diez, Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner
    Team: Björn Mildahn, Daniel Schiller
    Year: 2006
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2003 - 2006
  • The Role of Remigrants for Innovations – an Empirical Analysis for Shanghai
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Claudia Müller (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2006
    Funding: Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagenstiftung)
    Duration: 2003 - 2006
  • Technological change, innovation, and regional economic development in Shanghai and Beijing
    Led by: Prof. Dr, Ingo Liefner
    Team: Prof. Dr, Ingo Liefner, Stefan Hennemann
    Year: 2005
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2003 - 2005
  • Large firms and their impact on small firms and innovative milieux – the example of Siemens/Munich
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Gero Stenke (University of Cologne)
    Year: 1999
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 1997 - 1999
  • Networks, collective learning and RTD in high-tech SME clusters - the example of Munich
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg, Dr. Christine Tamásy (University of Cologne)
    Year: 1999
    Funding: EEuropean Commission (TSER - Project)
    Duration: 1996 - 1999
  • Analysis of regional innovation potentials and innovative networks in Europe’s periphery – the example of Wales/UK
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Olaf Arndt (University of Cologne)
    Year: 1999
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) - Priority programme „technological change and regional development in Europe“
    Duration: 1997 - 1999
  • On the quantification of the innovation potential of the Hanover-Brunswick-Göttingen region with special regard to innovative networks
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Angela Backhaus, Olof Seidel
    Year: 1996
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) - Priority programme „technological change and regional development in Europe“
    Duration: 1995 - 1996
  • Evaluation of technology centres and business incubators in Germany
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dr. Heiko Berendt, Dr. Heike Seeger, Dr. Christine Tamásy
    Year: 1994
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) - Priority programme “technological change and regional development in Europe“, State Government of Lower Saxony
    Duration: 1993 - 1994
  • On the impact of national and regional technology policy on the genesis of high-tech regions in the U.S., France, Japan, the U.K. and Germany
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Year: 1994
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG-Gz.: Ste 628/1-1)
    Duration: 1992 - 1994

Applied research

  • How do freshmen of the University of Hannover assess their locational choice?
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Juliane Bielinski, Dr. Angela Imhoff-Daniel, Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Year: 2007
    Funding: President of the University of Hannover
    Duration: 2007 - 2008
  • Scientific Evaluation of the programme „Junge Innovatoren“ (young innovators)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Christian Hundt, Dennis Stockinger
    Year: 2007
    Funding: Ministry of Science, Research and Art Federal State of Baden-Württemberg
    Duration: 2007 - 2010
  • Scientific Evaluation of the programme „Junge Innovatoren“ (young innovators)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dr. Christine Tamásy, Claudia Müller (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2004
    Funding: Ministry of Science, Research and Art Federal State of Baden-Württemberg
    Duration: 1998 - 2004
  • Regional-economic impact of the planned international research institution “European Spallation Source” (ESS)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg, Dr. Jens Kramer, Rik Schauenberg (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2001
    Funding: Research Centre Jülich GmbH
    Duration: 2001
  • Evaluating Technology Business Incubators – The European and German Perspective
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Year: 2000
    Funding: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna
    Duration: 2000

Completed research projects

Basic research

  • Intelligent labor market? Effects of the AI transformation on professions, industries and regions
    Led by: Dr. Kerstin J. Schaefer
    Team: Matthias Kapa, Lennart Schott, Dr. Anne Otto, Dr. Gábor Kismihók
    Year: 2023
    Funding: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
    Duration: 2023 - 2025
  • 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
  • DISCO: Disconnected research and development: The (temporary) spatial patterns of innovation
    Led by: Dr. Kerstin J. Schaefer
    Year: 2022
    Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at London School of Economics and Political Science financed by the Horizon 2020 Program of the European Commission
    Duration: 2021 - 2022
  • DUI.REG - Measurement of the Doing-Using-Interacting mode of SMEs in structurally weak regions
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg (LuH), Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner (University of Jena), Dr. Jörg Thomä (Institute for Small Business Economics at the University of Göttingen [ifh Göttingen])
    Team: Anne-Sophie Kagel (LUH), Christoph Friedrich (LUH), Leonie Reher (University of Göttingen), Tobias Hädrich (University of Jena), Martina Buratti (University of Jena)
    Year: 2022
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in line of the funding action “WIR! - Change through innovation in the region"
    Duration: 2022 - 2025
  • 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
  • InDUI – Setting indicators to measure innovations for the Doing-Using-Interacting-Mode of SME
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Tatjana Bennat
    Year: 2021
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
    Duration: 2017 - 2021
  • China-specific features of the emergence of innovations in artificial intelligence and environmental protection: Education system, interaction between science and economy, large-scale projects
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner (LUH), Prof. Dr. Steffi Robak (LUH), Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller (University of Greifswald)
    Team: Chris Brück (LUH), Xing Liu-Schuppener (LUH), Yang Liu (University of Greifswald)
    Year: 2021
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    Duration: 2021 – 2024
  • Competitiveness through R&D internationalization : patent- and interview data based studies on a latecomer in the telecommunications industry.
    Team: Kerstin J. Schaefer, M. Sc.
    Year: 2020
    Funding: German Academic Exchange Service, Leibniz University Graduate Academy
    Duration: 2015 - 2020
  • Transferring current research findings concerning the economic development of China to the Geography classroom
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Janis Fögele (JLU Gießen), Prof. Dr. Rainer Mehren (JLU Gießen)
    Team: Sebastian Losacker
    Year: 2020
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2019 - 2020
  • Regional Innovation Profiles in China: Innovation Conditions and Types of Innovation
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Henning Kroll (ISI, Karlsruhe)
    Team: Anna-Barbara Heindl
    Year: 2020
    Funding: DFG Gz. 981/15-1
    Duration: 2017 - 2020
  • Technology Spaces - Evolution, Potential, and Policy Implications
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Tom Broekel
    Team: Louis Knuepling
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
    Duration: 2018 – 2020
  • Success factors of reciprocal knowledge transfer in Chinese-German cooperation projects: Joint competence development in the research and innovation phase
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Prof. Dr. Steffi Robak, Prof. Dr. Michael Beer, Prof. Dr. Monika Sester (all LUH)
    Team: K. Florian Schneider
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2020 - 2023
  • Implementation conditions for frugality in innovation processes
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner
    Team: Julian Barnikol
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture
    Duration: 2020 - 2023
  • Regional technological paths and relatedness of knowledge in Germany
    Led by: Juniorprofessor Dr. Tom Brökel
    Team: Dr. Lars Mewes
    Year: 2019
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2016 - 2019
  • Sino-German Cooperation Group: Study on the Internationalization of science, technology and innovation: Strategy, Policy and Practice
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rongping Mu (Fraunhofer ISI), Prof. Dr. Reinhardt Meckl (University Bayreuth)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner u.a.
    Year: 2018
    Funding: DFG und NSFC (GZ 975)
    Duration: 2014 - 2018
  • Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Germany: Institutional Distance, Local Networks and Knowledge Exchange
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller (University Greifswald)
    Team: Timon Haasis (University Gießen), Miriam Richter-Tokar (University Greifswald)
    Year: 2018
    Funding: DFG (Gz. Li981/13-1)
    Duration: 2015 - 2018
  • Weltweite Verschiebung der Innovationsdynamik? Chinas Position in globalen Innovationsnetzwerken
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Prof. Yifei Sun
    Team: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner u.a.
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen im Stifterverband (T 260/25622/2014)
    Duration: 2014 - 2016
  • Wind energy technology in Lower Saxony - A comparative approach to explain path creation and path dependence in a renewable energy.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Jasper Wellbrock
    Year: 2016
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2013 - 2016
  • An critical approach on transdisciplinary knowledge generation and knowledge transfer in spatial planning – an approach in reference to the climate change discourse
    Led by: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Timm Sebastian Wiegand
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL), Headquarters(ARL), Geschäftsstelle
    Duration: 2012 - 2015
  • The embedding of Lower Saxon organizations and regions in funded R & D collaboration networks
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Juniorprof. Dr. Tom Brökel
    Team: Christoph Rösler, Wladimir Müller, Jörg Jerusel (EU-Hochschulbüro)
    Year: 2015
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2013 - 2015
  • Creative Lower Saxony: regional distribution, spatial mobility, start-up potentials and economic relevance of creative people
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Christoph Alfken, Dipl.-Geogr. Daniel Voßen
    Year: 2015
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2011 – 2015
  • Sharing KnowlEdge Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller and 13 partners at other European universities together with one partner at the university in Morocco and Israel and one partner in Turkey
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Daria Zvirgzde
    Year: 2014
    Funding: European Union (EU) within the 7th research framework programme
    Duration: 2011 - 2014
  • Regional agility in the wake of crisis: Towards a new growth model in the Greater Pearl River Delta? (SPP 1233, 3. Phase)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. J. Revilla Diez, Dr. D. Schiller (Univerity of Hannover), Prof. Dr. I. Liefner, Dr. S. Hennemann (Univerity of Giessen), Prof. Dr. F. Kraas (University of Cologne), Dr. D. Dohse, Prof. Dr. R. Soltwedel (University of Kiel)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Dr. Wenying Fu
    Year: 2014
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG); priority programme 1233 "Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change" (2006-2012)
    Duration: 2010 - 2014
  • Advanced Monitoring and Coordination of EU R&D Policies at Regional Level (AMCER)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Jörg Jerusel
    Team: Jérôme Stuck
    Year: 2013
    Funding: EU
    Duration: 2011 - 2013
  • Regional agility and upgrading in Hong Kong and the PRD (SPP 1233 phase 2)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller (University of Hannover), Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Stefan Hennemann (University of Giessen), Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Soltwedel (University of Kiel)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Susanne Meyer, Wenying Fu
    Year: 2012
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG); priority programme 1233 "Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change" (2006-2012)
    Duration: 2009 - 2012
  • Regional Biotechnology – Establishing a Methodology and Performance Indicators for Assessing Bioclusters and Bioregions Relevant to the Knowledge-based Bio-economy (KBBE) Area
    Led by: PricewaterhouseCoopers (Luxembourg)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Year: 2011
    Funding: European Commission, DG Research
    Duration: 2009 - 2011
  • 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
  • Intangible Assets and Regional Economic Growth in Europe (IAREG)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller and 10 partners at other European universities
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Jan-Philipp Kramer
    Year: 2011
    Funding: European Union (EU) within the 7th research framework programme
    Duration: 2008 - 2011
  • Constructing Regional Advantage: Towards State-of-the-Art Regional Innovation System Policies in Europe?
    Led by: Prof. B. Asheim (Lund University, Sweden), Prof. R. Boschma (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Franz Tödtling (University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria), Markku Sotarauta (University of Tampere, Finland)
    Team: Prof. R. Boschma, Dr. Tom Broekel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
    Year: 2010
    Funding: European Science Foundation Collaborative Research
    Duration: 2008 - 2010
  • Promoting Effective Modes of University-Industry Linkages and their Evolution for Economic Catch-up in Asia
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Keun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
    Team: Dr. Daniel Schiller, Dr. Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Thailand and 11 other country teams
    Year: 2009
    Funding: International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
    Duration: 2007 - 2009
  • Informal Dynamics of Agile Firm Organisation in the Greater Pearl River Delta (SPP 1233 phase 1)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. habil. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Daniel Schiller (University of Hannover), Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Soltwedel, Dr. Dean Spinager (University of Kiel)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Dr. habil. Ingo Liefner, Dr. Daniel Schiller, Susanne Meyer
    Year: 2008
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG); priority programme 1233 "Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change" (2006-2012)
    Duration: 2006 - 2008
  • Internationalization of R&D to China – Analysis of German multinational enterprises in the field of Automobile, Chemicals and Electronics
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Juliane Bielinski
    Year: 2007
    Funding: own resources
    Duration: 2007 - 2010
  • Localised Value Systems in Regional Clusters of Production in Optical Technologies in Germany
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Schätzl, Dr. Matthias Kiese
    Team: Esther Schricke
    Year: 2007
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2005 - 2007
  • Sectoral-regional Cluster and the „New Economic Geography“ – An Empirical Test of main hypotheses for Germany
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Timo Litzenberger (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2007
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2004 - 2007
  • A Qualitative and Empirical Analysis of Spin-off Firms in Beijing, Hangzhou and Wuhan: A Contribution towards Explaining Innovation Processes in China
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Schätzl, Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg, Dr. habil. Ingo Liefner
    Team: Henning Kroll (Universität Hannover), Claudia Müller (Universität zu Köln)
    Year: 2006
    Funding: Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagenstiftung)
    Duration: 2003 - 2006
  • The changing role of public research and teaching organisations for regional and national innovative capacities in Thailand
    Led by: Prof. Dr. J. Revilla Diez, Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner
    Team: Björn Mildahn, Daniel Schiller
    Year: 2006
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2003 - 2006
  • The Role of Remigrants for Innovations – an Empirical Analysis for Shanghai
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Claudia Müller (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2006
    Funding: Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagenstiftung)
    Duration: 2003 - 2006
  • Technological change, innovation, and regional economic development in Shanghai and Beijing
    Led by: Prof. Dr, Ingo Liefner
    Team: Prof. Dr, Ingo Liefner, Stefan Hennemann
    Year: 2005
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2003 - 2005
  • Large firms and their impact on small firms and innovative milieux – the example of Siemens/Munich
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Gero Stenke (University of Cologne)
    Year: 1999
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 1997 - 1999
  • Networks, collective learning and RTD in high-tech SME clusters - the example of Munich
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg, Dr. Christine Tamásy (University of Cologne)
    Year: 1999
    Funding: EEuropean Commission (TSER - Project)
    Duration: 1996 - 1999
  • Analysis of regional innovation potentials and innovative networks in Europe’s periphery – the example of Wales/UK
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Olaf Arndt (University of Cologne)
    Year: 1999
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) - Priority programme „technological change and regional development in Europe“
    Duration: 1997 - 1999
  • On the quantification of the innovation potential of the Hanover-Brunswick-Göttingen region with special regard to innovative networks
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Angela Backhaus, Olof Seidel
    Year: 1996
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) - Priority programme „technological change and regional development in Europe“
    Duration: 1995 - 1996
  • Evaluation of technology centres and business incubators in Germany
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dr. Heiko Berendt, Dr. Heike Seeger, Dr. Christine Tamásy
    Year: 1994
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) - Priority programme “technological change and regional development in Europe“, State Government of Lower Saxony
    Duration: 1993 - 1994
  • On the impact of national and regional technology policy on the genesis of high-tech regions in the U.S., France, Japan, the U.K. and Germany
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Year: 1994
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG-Gz.: Ste 628/1-1)
    Duration: 1992 - 1994

Applied research

  • How do freshmen of the University of Hannover assess their locational choice?
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Juliane Bielinski, Dr. Angela Imhoff-Daniel, Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Year: 2007
    Funding: President of the University of Hannover
    Duration: 2007 - 2008
  • Scientific Evaluation of the programme „Junge Innovatoren“ (young innovators)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Christian Hundt, Dennis Stockinger
    Year: 2007
    Funding: Ministry of Science, Research and Art Federal State of Baden-Württemberg
    Duration: 2007 - 2010
  • Scientific Evaluation of the programme „Junge Innovatoren“ (young innovators)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dr. Christine Tamásy, Claudia Müller (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2004
    Funding: Ministry of Science, Research and Art Federal State of Baden-Württemberg
    Duration: 1998 - 2004
  • Regional-economic impact of the planned international research institution “European Spallation Source” (ESS)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg, Dr. Jens Kramer, Rik Schauenberg (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2001
    Funding: Research Centre Jülich GmbH
    Duration: 2001
  • Evaluating Technology Business Incubators – The European and German Perspective
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Year: 2000
    Funding: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna
    Duration: 2000

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