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At the 22nd meeting of the RKW Advisory Board "Start-ups" in Eschborn, Christian Hundt gave a keynote speech on the characteristics of start-up activity in rural areas and then discussed political options for action with the members of the Advisory Board.

The AfD vote share is influenced not only by cultural factors but also by a variety of regional factors, such as aging and regional emigration. When these are controlled for, the East-West difference partially fades, and previously unknown regional patterns can be identified instead.

Ann Hipp looks back with satisfaction on the final meeting of the scientific network funded by the DFG over three years. The final event took place at ifo Dresden and was organized and chaired by her.

Christian Bergholz and co-authors from the University of Hanover and ZEW in Mannheim have investigated the conditions under which digital companies are founded and have now published the results in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights.

Jan Cornelius Peters presented current research findings on regional wage differences at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. This year's congress of the European Economic Association and the European meeting of the Econometric Society took place there from August 26 to 30.

Together with co-authors from the Institute for Employment Research, Jan Cornelius Peters has for the first time investigated the influence of return migration initiatives on the return migration of workers to rural regions. The findings have now been published in the Journal of Economic Geography.

Christian Hundt and Angelika Krehl contribute the chapter "Fundamentals of Economics" to the classic agricultural textbook "Business Studies and Farm Management".

In a joint publication by the Thünen Institute with the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at Leibniz University Hannover and the University of Utrecht, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable mobility behavior in the Hannover region are examined.

The 9th conference of the Regional Development Cooperation Weserbergland+ took place in Nienburg on 07.08.24. Ann Hipp and Alexander Kopka participated in the event on request and contributed to the discussion on the new “zedita Zukunftsforum” in Hameln-Pyrmont.

Ann Hipp recently presented her research findings on the regional mobility of inventors and the long-term effects of large-scale investments in the field of microelectronics at the DRUID conference, the GfR summer conference and the conference of the Evolutionary Committee of the Verein für…