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At this year's ZEW conference "Dynamics of Entrepreneurship" (CoDE), the Thünen Institute was represented with two papers. One paper on differences in entrepreneurship behaviour between Germany and England and one paper on differences in entrepreneurship behaviour in East and West Germany were…

Petrik Runst presented a paper at the "Rethinking Clusters" conference at the University of Valencia on the specifities of innovations in rural areas. The conference fosters the exchange of ideas with Spanish researchers regarding the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in regional…

Together with colleagues from St. Gallen, Amsterdam, and Hanover, Christian Hundt has investigated the effects of university entrepreneurial climate on student start-ups. The results have now been published in Studies in Higher Education.

At this year's annual conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the largest economic association in the German-speaking world, at the University of Regensburg, Jan Cornelius Peters presented current research results.

After successful application, Thünen Institute presented and discussed its research results at the international research workshop.

At the invitation of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development, Jan Cornelius Peters presented research results on the return migration of workers.

The Thünen Institute was represented with presentations at the annual congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), and at the conference of the European Economic Association (EEA).

Around the world, arts and culture professionals act as agents of rural development.

Many countries are experiencing increasing wage inequality among workers as well as between capital owners and workers. In a publication with Patrizio Lecca and Stelianos Sakkas, Damiaan Persyn examines this phenomenon at the regional level in Europe using a spatial macro-economic model.

At this year's GfR summer conference, the Thünen Institute was represented with three presentations focusing on regional inequalities, the influence of transport costs on regional economic activity, and the location choices of graduates.