German Congress of Geography 2023
Location: Frankfurt on the Main
19-23 September 2023
The junior research group delivered various presentations at the German Congress of Geography in Frankfurt on the Main, in the sessions "Environmental-oriented Economic Geography: Establishment of a Plural Paradigm?" and "GeoAI: Potentials, Applications, and Challenges of a Current Methodology in Geography." Dr. Sebastian Losacker also chaired the sessions "Environmental-oriented Economic Geography: Establishment of a Plural Paradigm?" and "Geography of Sustainability Transformations: Topics, Concepts, and Research Perspectives".
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Presentations:
Dr. Sebastian Losacker: "Spatial Concentration of Eco-Innovation"; "A plea for a (re)newal of environmental-oriented economic geography"
Tim Becker: "Regional impacts of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): Innovation and Technological Change in Environmental Technologies"
Dr. Lukas Kriesch: "Web Mining and Natural Language Processing in Geography using the example of German company websites"
Moritz Schütz: "Leveraging Web Mining and Machine Learning to assess Regional Governance Priorities in Germany"
In an interview with bioökonomie.de under the title "Understanding Regional Differences on the Path to Sustainable Construction", Dr. Sebastian Losacker discusses the research project TRABBI. The conversation covers the potentials of bioeconomy for the construction sector, the central questions of the TRABBI junior research group, the research methods used in the project, the selection of case study countries, as well as the potentials of the insights gained in the project for promoting transformation processes towards a sustainable bioeconomy.
IST Utrecht
Location: Utrecht
30 August till 01 September 2023
Dr. Sebastian Losacker presented current research at the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST) in Utrecht. The presentation, titled "Regional trajectories of eco-innovation specializations," focused on regional patterns of eco-innovation activities. The research was aimed at tracing the regional developmental paths of these activities using sequence analysis.
Workshop Bioeconomy Giessen
14 August 2023
Location: Giessen
The junior research group organized a workshop on the topic of "Advanced Methods for Measuring Economic and Innovation Activities in the Bioeconomy." The workshop focused on exchanging ideas with researchers from the Fraunhofer ISI and the University of Greifswald regarding the potential of web mining and machine learning methods for identifying bioeconomy activities of German companies.
Our research associate Tim Becker is the recipient of the 2023 Regional Studies Association Nathaniel Lichfield Award, which recognizes an original and outstanding contribution to the field of regional studies by a recent master's graduate. Tim receives the award for his master's thesis entitled: "Regional impact of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): Innovation and Technological Change in Environmental Technologies."
Copyright: Regional Studies Association
Copyright: GEOINNO 2024
Location: Manchester, England
10-12 January 2024
Special Session:
Dr. Sebastian Losacker will organize the session 'Innovation in the Bioeconomy and Regional Sustainability Transitions: Promises, Pitfalls and Contradictions' in collaboration with Prof. Teis Hansen (University of Copenhagen) and Prof. Daniel Schiller (University of Greifswald).
The session will explore the geography of innovationin the bioeconomy, its effects on regional development, and its implications for regional sustainability transitions.In pursuing this, we pay specific attention to not only the production side of bio-innovations, but also the consumption side, as well as the link between these. The session also aims to take a critical stance on the sustainability effectsof the bioeconomy. Among other things, this requires unpacking how sustainability effects may vary depending on the characteristics of the products –from products that are used more or less immediately (e.g. fuels) to products with lifespans of decades or even centuries (e.g. construction materials).
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RSA Annual Conference​​
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
14-17 June 2023
The research group has given several presentations at the RSA Annual Conference in Ljubljana in the sessions "Current Issues in Environmental Economic Geography" and "Unconventional Data for Regional Studies". Dr. Sebastian Losacker also chaired the session "Current Issues in Environmental Economic Geography I".
Presentations:
Dr. Sebastian Losacker: "Urban Scaling of Innovations in the Circular Economy"
Lennart Fischer: "National Specialization and Diversification in the Bioeconomy: Evidence from Biobased Technologies in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sectors"
Tim Becker: "Regional impacts of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): Innovation and Technological Change in Environmental Technologies"
Dr. Lukas Kriesch: "Mapping the Bioeconomy in Germany: Insights from Web Text Data Analysis"
Moritz Schütz: "The Potential of Web Mining and Machine Learning for Assessing Regional Knowledge Capabilities and Networks: An Approach Using Local and Regional Government Web Content and Structure Data in Germany"
16th Rauischholzhausen Symposium on Economic Geography
Location: Rauischholzhausen, Germany
27.-29. April 2023​​
Presentation: Economic Geography of the Bioeconomy,
Dr. Sebastian Losacker & Dr. Lukas Kriesch
Dr. Sebastian Losacker and Dr. Lukas Kriesch presented current research at the "16th Rauischholzhausen Symposium on Economic Geography" in Rauischholzhausen. Their presentation titled "Economic Geography of the Bioeconomy" showed how web data can be used to identify, locate and categorize bioeconomy companies. These findings provide a valuable basis for analyzing the bioeconomy in Germany.
