Cátedra de Geografía Económica y Social
El Departamento de Geografía Económica y Social centra sus investigaciones en el desarrollo de las economías globales y regionales. El grupo de trabajo focaliza sus proyectos de investigación en la Geografía de los Servicios, la Geografía del Conocimiento, Organizaciones y Redes Sociales [más información].
Los académicos del Departamento imparten diversos cursos para los grados de Licenciatura y Master. La enseñanza entregada en las clases y los seminarios abarca los campos de Geografía Económica, teorías de organizaciones, globalización económica, así como métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos en las investigaciones sociales empíricas y el análisis regional, con énfasis en los métodos de análisis de las redes sociales.
El Departamento en conjunto con la Universidad de Toronto publican la serie SPACES online, en la que periódicamente son presentados papers de trabajo de las investigaciones en marcha, tanto de estudiantes graduados como de académicos para su discusión.
News
TEAM | SEP 2023
Dr. Thomas Neise fills the position of Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler as professor of Economic Geography
As of 1st September 2023, Prof. Johannes Glückler holds the chair of Economic Geographies of the Future at the Department of Geography at LMU Munich. Dr. Thomas Neise from Osnabrück University fills the position of the professorship of Economic Geography for the academic year 2023/2024 in Heidelberg.
PUBLICATION | AUG 2023
Sustainability
Technological Cohesion and Convergence: A Main Path Analysis of the Bioeconomy, 1900–2020
MEDIA | JUL 2023
Knowledge and Space 20: Videos out now!
You can find the image video and the recordings of all talks of the Knowledge and Space Symposium 20 now on YouTube: Watch now!
PUBLICATION | JUN 2023
Social Sciences
MEDIA | MAR 2023
New Video on our YouTube Channel!
New video on controversial innovation by Yannick Eckhardt and Prof. Johannes Glückler at the AAG Watch now!
AWARD | MAR 2023
Global Environmental Change
Our colleague Denise Gutiérrez has received the environmental award of the Viktor and Segrid Dulger Foundation for her outstanding master's thesis on water governance in Chile.
PUBLICATION | MAR 2023
Neues Buch in der Springer Serie Knowledge and Space
Professions and Proficiency, Volume 18, open access via Springer.
PUBLICATION | MAR 2023
Sustainability
TEACHING | JAN 2023
University of Bern: Winterschool in economic Geography
Johannes Glückler introduced #SNA to about 20 advanced PhD students and PostDocs. Find more information here
PUBLICATION | DEC 2022
Socio-Economic Review
PUBLICATION | DEC 2022
Environmental Management
Network Governance at the Margin of the State: Rural Drinking Water Communities in Chile
PUBLICATION | OCT 2022
Journal of Economic Geography
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation
EVENT | OCT 2022
DGNet Conference in Koblenz
Members of the EGGroup take part in the DGNet conference and talk about "Organisational Network Research and Transfer"
EVENT | SEP 2022
20th Knowledge and Space Symposium
In the final interdisciplinary symposium, the participants talk about „Placing the future.“
EVENT | SEP 2022
Mathias Corvinum Collegium - Budapest Lectures
Johannes Glückler talks with Zoltán Ács about the Nexus between Innovation and Institutions
PUBLICATION | SEP 2022
The Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics
PUBLICATION | AUG 2022
Global Environmental Change
Assisted network governance: An inclusive innovation to mitigate extreme water scarcity.
EVENT | AUG 2022
First Beer Law Convention in Kulmbach
PhD student Yannick Eckhardt attends the Beer Law Convention in Kulmbach. Read about his research here.
TEACHING | JUL 2022
HCIAS Summer School JUNCTURES
Johannes Glückler teaches a module on Institutions and Regional Economic Development to students from the Americas.
EVENT | JUN 2022
Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin
We participated in the Global Conference of Economic Geography in Dublin from June 7 to 10.
PUBLICATION | MAY 2022
Economic Geography
Relocation Decisions in Uncertain Times: Brexit and Financial Services.
EVENT | MAY 2022
19th Knowledge and Space Symposium
In this interdisciplinary symposium from May 4th-6th, the participants will talk about „Knowledge and Digital Technology.“
TEAM | MAY 2022
Linda Sendlinger has joined the team as research associate
She is responsible for the department's outreach and science communication.
TEAM | MAY 2022
Denise Gutiérrez has joined the team as a PhD student
Her research interests include water governance and networks. Read her article on assisted network governance here.
TEAM | MAR 2022
Klara Jungkunz has joined the team as research associate
She is responsible for the organisation of the project Knowledge and Space.
TEAM | MAR 2022
Yannick Eckhardt has joined the team as a PhD student
His research focus includes institutions and innovation. Read his article on illicit innovation and institutional folding here.
TEACHING | MAR 2022
New students at HCLA
We welcome the new generation of students in the Master program Governance of Risk and Resources in Santiago de Chile.
MEDIA | FEB 2022
American Association of Geographers Annual Conference
A talk on innovation scouting in large multinational enterprises on February 28th 2022 in New York. Click here to watch the video.
PUBLICATION | JAN 2022
Research Policy
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy.
Archivo de noticia
TEAM | OCT 2021
New Faculty Dean
Johannes Glückler has taken office as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences. Learn more about our faculty.
PUBLICATION | SEP 2021
Journal of Economic Geography
MOBILITY | SEP 2021
Harris Distinguished Visting Professor
Johannes Glückler is Harris Distinguished Visting Professor at the Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire,
during the fall term.
MEDIA | AUG 2021
The sleepy German backwater
The New European article on the counterintuitive rise of Heilbronn Franconia as a model for the equalization of backward regions.
PUBLICATION | JUN 2021
Family Business and Regional Development
Family firms and their regional ties: A bond made for the future?
PUBLICATION | APR 2021
Progress in Human Geography
PUBLICATION | APR 2021
European Planning Studies
VIDEO | FEB 2021
Invited Lecture, Dartmouth College
Johannes Glückler discusses the effects of digitization on the industry of stock photography. The lecture was invited by the Department of Geography & Harris German Distinguished Visiting Professorship Program at Dartmouth College.
PUBLICATION | DEC 2020
Environments
Co-management of small-scale fisheries in Chile from a network governance perspective.
PUBLICATION | DEC 2020
New book in the Springer Series on Knowledge and Space
Knowledge for Governance, Volume 15, open access via Springer.
Teaching | OCT 2020
Lecture on economic geography
Lecture content is available online for members with a Uni-ID.
RESEARCH | SEP 2020
New project on the Unified Patent Court
The ANR and the DFG grant the new project UNIFIED with a focus on the emergence of a genuine transnational institution.
TEAM | SEP 2020
Chilean master's students in Heidelberg
As scholarship holders in the MSc. Governance of Risks and Resources at the Heidelberg Center in Santiago de Chile, the EGG welcomes Daniela Duhart, Gabriela Bawarshi and Denise Gutiérrez to Heidelberg to realize their master's thesis.
TEAM | JUL 2020
Research on innovation and regional development in economic geography
We celebrate the successful PhD defense of Dr. Anna Mateja Punstein.
PUBLICATION | JUL 2020
Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie
SONA: A relational methodology to identify structure in networks.
TEAM | JUN 2020
Research on institutions in economic geography
We celebrate the successful PhD defense of Dr. Regina Lenz.
PUBLICATION | APR 2020
European Planning Studies
EVENT | JAN 2020
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Angelika Krehl (Leibniz Institute Dresden) talks about Regional development as an amalgamation of the spatiality of economic activity, land use and some interplay of these.
RESEARCH | DEC 2019
New project on the bioeconomy
The BMBF grants the new project BioTexFuture with a focus on innovation networks in organic textiles.
PUBLICATION | NOV 2019
European Planning Studies
The ‘hourglass’ model: An institutional morphology of rural industrialism in Baden-Württemberg.
TEAM | OCT 2019
New Doctoral Researcher from China
Xuan Hu joins the Economic Geography Group to work on the global mobility of R&D professionals.
RESEARCH | OCT 2019
New impact study of universities on the regional economy
EVENT | OCT 2019
RSA Latin American Conference, Bogotá
Economic Geography Group organizes a special session on Governance, Risk and Resources.
PUBLICATION | OCT 2019
New book in the Springer Series on Knowledge and Space
Geographies of Schooling, Volume 14, open access via Springer.
PUBLICATION | SEP 2019
Die Clubszene in Heidelberg
Eine Studie zu Angebot und Nachfrage von Clubs in der Stadt Heidelberg.
EVENT | SEP 2019
Plenary speech at RSA North America Conference, Montréal
Johannes Glückler has been invited to give a keynote on the relation between innovation and the periphery.
PUBLICATION | JUL 2019
European Planning Studies
Alternative economic practices in Spanish cities: from grassroots movements to urban policies?
PUBLICATION | JUL 2019
Journal of Economic Geography
EVENT | JUL 2019
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Yihan Wang (HEC Montréal) talks about International Business Networks and Two Perspectives of Clusters.
EVENT | JUL 2019
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Dong-Ho Shin (Hannam University) talks about The Governance of Technology Parks.
EVENT | JUN 2019
Knowledge and Space Symposium
18th Symposium on "Professions and Proficiency: The Rise and Demise of Knowledge"
EVENT | JUN 2019
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Gerhard Halder (University of Tübingen) talks about Framing Commodities.
EVENT | JUN 2019
Keynote at the Steinbeis Foundation, Stuttgart
Johannes Glückler speaks on the governance of networks at the Max Syrbe-Symposium.
RESEARCH | MAY 2019
New project with State Rectors’ Conference Baden-Württemberg (LRK)
The Economic Geography Group has started an economic impact analysis of the research universities in Baden-Württemberg.
TEAM | FEB 2019
Visiting Professor
Prof. Dr. Dong-Ho Shin from Hannam University, Korea, joins the EGG for the summer term to collaborate on his research about technology parks in Europe.
EVENT | FEB 2019
Digital Economy and Global Transformations in the Trade of Photography
Upcoming conference on current developments of the stock image market and future challenges for picture agencies, February 5, 2019. For further information about the research project click here.
EVENT | JAN 2019
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Michael Dröscher (University of Münster) talks about innovation processes in (chemical) industry.
EVENT | OCT 2018
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Dariusz Wójcik (Oxford University) talks about asset management as a digital platform industry.
MEDIA | JUN 2018
Knowledge and Space
EVENT | JUL 2018
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Kirsten Martinus (University of Western Australia) talks about the serious leisure seekers and science in peripheries.
TEAM | JUN 2018
Visiting Professor
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Martinus from The University of Western Australia joins EGG to collaborate on her research about innovation in the peripheries.
EVENT | JUN 2018
World Intellectual Capital Conference 14 at UNESCO in Paris
Johannes Glückler talks on the role of institutions in entrepreneurship and regional growth.
Teaching | MAY 2018
Field trip to Silicon Valley
Joint field trip with students from the universities of Marburg and Gießen to San Francisco Bay Area.
PUBLICATION | MAY 2018
New book in the Springer Series on Knowledge and Space
Knowledge and Institutions, Volume 13, now released by Springer.
BOOK SERIES | APR 2018
Knowledge and Space
New book review of "Knowledge and Networks" (volume 11) in Hungarian Geographical Bulletin.
Teaching | APR 2018
Große Exkursion: field trip to Northern Spain
Heidelberg students in BSc. and MSc. Geography travel around seven autonomous regions in Spain.
EVENT | MAR 2018
Governance Lecture at the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile
Johannes Glückler speaks on Legitimate Governance in Lateral Networks.
EVENT | MAR 2018
Inauguration MSc Governance of Risks and Resources
The geography departments of the Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica and Heidelberg University welcome 17 students to the new academic year of the MSc. GovRR in Santiago de Chile.
OBITUARY | DEC 2017
Peter Meusburger passed away
EVENT | DEC 2017
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Roel Rutten (Tilburg School of Social and Behavioural Sciences) talks about the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in economic geography.
EVENT | NOV 2017
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Gordon Winder (LMU Munich) speaks on "A View from Manhattan: Mapping The Wall Streets Journal's Commercial News, 1914".
EVENT | OCT 2017
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Judith Wiemann (University of Cologne) talks about the internationalization of skills in Mexico, India and China.
STAFF | OCT 2017
Jakob Hoffmann joins Economic Geography Group
EVENT | SEP 2017
Knowledge and Space Symposium
16th Symposium on "The Role of Socio-Environmental Settings for Learning and Educational Attainment"
RESEARCH | APR 2017
New project: HEIKA - Heidelberg Karlsruhe Research Partnership
The Economic Geography Group collaborates with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology on a new project on Eco-Industrial Regions and the governance of resource efficiency potentials in Chile.
EVENT | MAR 2017
Inauguration MSc Governance of Risks and Resources
The geography departments of the Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica and Heidelberg University inaugurate the new academic year of the MSc. GovRR in Santiago de Chile.
PUBLICATION | MAR 2017
New book in the Springer Series on Knowledge and Space
EVENT | FEB 2017
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Luca de Benedictis (University of Macerata) inquires about the impact of insularity on connectedness and trade costs.
PUBLICATION | Feb 2017
New book in the Springer Series on Knowledge and Space
EVENT | JAN 2017
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Sophie Mützel (University of Lucerne) speaks on "markets from stories".
PUBLICATION | JAN 2017
New book in the Springer Series on Knowledge and Space
PUBLICATION | DEC 2016
Investigaciones Regionales / Journal of Regional Research
How institutions moderate the effectiveness of regional policy
MEDIA | DEC 2016
Interview with Porsche Consulting (YouTube)
Johannes Glückler talks about the virtues of tinkering and processes of controversial innovation
PUBLICATION | DEC 2016
Journal of Economic Geography
Special issue “Economic Geography and Social Network Analysis”
MEDIA | DEC 2016
Knowledge and Space
Impressions of the 14th Klaus Tschira Symposium: Geographies of Schooling
TEAM | NOV 2016
Network research in economic geography
We celebrate the successful PhD defense of Dr. Robert Panitz
TEAM | OCT 2016
Visiting Professor
Prof. Dr. Jhon Montoya from National University of Colombia is spending a sabbatical in Heidelberg to advance his research on value creation and bubble formation in the housing sector of Bogota.
EVENT | OCT 2016
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Pamela Tolbert (Cornell University) talks about national labor market policies and preferences for self-employment.
TEAM | SEP 2016
Visiting Professor
Prof. Dr. K. Yamamoto from Kyushu University, Japan, has received a grant by Humboldt Stiftung to investigate regional development in peripheral regions of Germany and Austria
EVENT | JULY 2016
World Intellectual Capital Conference 12
Claudia Sandoval and Lin Zou discuss their research on creativity and innovation networks at the world intellectual capital conference, Paris
PUBLICATION | JULY 2016
Social Networks
RESEARCH | JUNE 2016
2nd European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN)
Special Session of economic geography, globalization and social networks, Sciences Po in Paris, June 14-17, 2016
Teaching | March 2016
Inauguration MSc Governance of Risks and Resources
Directors of the geography institutes of Heidelberg University, the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad Católica welcome the new generation of students to the MSc. GovRR in Santiago de Chile
STAFF | February 2016
Doctoral Student
Luz Melina Quinto, MSc. In Governance of Risks and Resources, joins the research group to pursue a doctoral project on environmental governance in Peru.
STAFF | January 2016
Visiting Researcher from China
Lin Zou, funded by the Chinese government, joins the economic geography research group to pursue her research project on innovation networks
EVENT | January 2016
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Beatrice Bustos (Universidad de Chile) analyzes the Chilean salmon industry from the perspective of political ecology.
EVENT | January 2016
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Erik Stam (Utrecht University) talks about the emergent entrepreneurial ecosystems approach.
EVENT | November 2015
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Pablo Ciccolella (Universidad de Buenos Aires) discusses contemporary challenges of Latin American cities in the 21st century.
RESEARCH | OCT 2015
2nd European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN)
Johannes Glückler has been invited to join the Scientific Committee of the conference held at Sciences Po in Paris, June 14-17, 2016
KEYNOTE | OCT 2015
Networks & Connectivity for Smart Specialization
As an invited keynote, Johannes Glückler speaks on ‘Clusters, Networks and Learning: Tensions between connectivity and contiguity’ at Orkestra, the Basque Institute of Competitiveness in San Sebastián, Spain
AWARD | OCT 2015
German Teaching Prize
The German Association of Geographers awards prize for innovative teaching to Dr. Michael Handke
VIDEO | OCT 2015
Knowledge and Space
Impressions of the latest Klaus Tschira Symposium on Knowledge and Space Volume 13: Knowledge and Institutions
AWARD | SEPT 2015
Lajos Lóczy Medal
Peter Meusburger has been awarded the Lajos Lóczy Medal of the Hungarian Geographical Society
EVENT | AUG 2015
4th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2015
Our group went to Oxford to present six papers and to organize several sessions on topics such as resource governance, institutional change, innovation networks and industrial design.
TEAM | AUG 2015
New Coordinator of Master Program in Chile
Dr. Michael Handke takes the position of a Research Group Leader to advance the MSc. Governance of Risks and Resources at the Heidelberg Center in Santiago de Chile.
RESEARCH | AUG 2015
Launch of a new DFG research project
The geography of institutional change: A comparative analysis of family firm succession in Baden-Württemberg and the Basque Country.
PUBLICATION | JULY 2015
Springer Series on Knowledge and Space
New book publication:
Geographies of Knowledge and Power
EVENT | JULY 2015
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
Clément Renaud (ParisTech) discusses his extensive fieldwork on Open Innovation in China.
FOOTBALL | JUNE 2015
Ruperto Carola Cup
A joint team of geographers and chemists reaches semifinals and finishes the annual tournament at third place
EVENT | JUNE 2015
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
José Luis Sánchez Hernández (University of Salamanca) talks about the housing bubble in Spain
CONFERENCE | JUNE 2015
World Intellectual Capital Conference 11
Invited talk on the institutional geography of family firm succession at the world intellectual capital conference
EVENT | MAY 2015
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
William Harvey's talk investigates into the localisation and internationalisation strategies of executive search firms
STAFF | APRIL 2015
Regina Lenz joins Economic Geography Group
She focuses on the geography of institutions and teaches economic geography as well as qualitative methods. Read more on her personal webpage.
OBITUARY | APR 2015
Klaus Tschira passed away
EVENT | JAN 2015
Research Lectures in Economic Geography
RESEARCH | DEC 2014
Journal of Economic Geography
EVENT | NOV 2014
Research Lectures in Economic Geography | Elsie Onsongo
Gaining Legitimacy for Inclusive Innovations: The Case of Mobile Phone Financial Services
PUBLICATION | Sept 2014
Springer Series on Knowledge and Space: Learning Organizations
Command or conviction? Informal networks and the diffusion of controversial innovations
PUBLICATION | Sept 2014
Journal of Economic Geography
How controversial innovation succeeds in the periphery? A network perspective of BASF Argentina
EVENT | JUNE 2014
Interdisziplinäre Netzwerktagung in Darmstadt
TEACHING | May 2014
Guest Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Johannes Glückler teaches an international summer course in economic geography
RESEARCH | APRIL 2014
Revival of Places
Johannes Glückler gives a key note lecture on learning in proximity vs. connectivity
TEACHING | MAR 2014
Große Exkursion Polen
RESEARCH | FEB 2014
4th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2015
Johannes Glückler has been invited to join the Advisory Board of 4th GCEC, Oxford
EVENT | Sept 2013
Knowledge and Space Symposium
11th Symposium on "Topographies and Topologies of Knowledge"
