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Innovations are considered an important driver of economic development. Their emergence is complex and depends on numerous factors both at the company level and the regional and national level. The aim of this research project is to better understand the interaction of these factors and the spatial…

The transition to greenhouse neutrality affects both individuals and companies in a variety of ways. In a new project, we are collaborating with the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies to investigate economic, social, and funding policy aspects of the transition.

The recent increase in staff members has allowed us to broaden our research agenda. New projects include the impact of climate change and skilled worker shortages as well as modelling spatial economic development.

How do cultural entrepreneurs in rural areas tap into new markets? These and other questions will be answered by the project KULT_Ressource, which deals with the situation of artists and cultural entrepreneurs, in rural areas.

In July 2021 more than 140 countries agreed on the introduction of a global minimum tax of 15% on corporate profits. In a paper, published now in Fiscal Studies, Michael Devereux (University of Oxford), Johanna Paraknewitz (Universität Tübingen), and Martin Simmler analyze two aspects of the global…

Under the title "Entrepreneurship in Spatial Perspective", Rolf Sternberg and Christian Hundt have contributed a chapter to the newly published textbook "Key Terms in Economic Geography".

At this year's winter seminar of the GfR in Spital am Pyhrn (Austria) Jan Cornelius Peters presented on Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives - The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments and Damiaan Persyn on Spatial aggregation bias in wage rigidity…

An article from the research project The spatial mobility of workers over the course of their working lives – Analyses for rural areas in Germany (MobiLä) was recently published in Regional Science Policy & Practice.

Collaboration in the former Institute of Rural Studies bears fruit beyond the division of the institute. Christian Hundt and Anne Margarian have just published an article in the Competitiveness Review.

In his keynote address at Harvard Business School in Boston, Christian Hundt presented research findings from the Thünen Institute on the economic development of rural areas in Germany.