Practices of knowledge transfer outside of agglomerations

Within the scope of a collaborative project, the IfL analysed innovation processes and practices of knowledge transfer of actors located outside of agglomerations. The study includes perspectives of companies as well as of research institutions and scientists involved in transfer activities. The aim of the project was to characterise innovation activities occuring in rural regions and to identify differences in innovation processes and transfer practices as compared to urban agglomerations. Additionally, the project sheds lighted on the preferences and spatial images of scientists as well as actors involved in cooperative projects and examines their significance for developing new instruments of knowledge transfer. The focus was on institutional knowledge transfer and formalised cooperation projects in contrast to informal knowledge exchange between individuals.

The project was part of the collaborative project "Broadening Horizons, Changing Perspectives", which has developed strategies to promote the transfer of scientific research results into rural regions. Prior to this, cooperation between research, business, civil society and the public sector were be systematically examined.

Results/Publications

Graffenberger, Martin / Hof, Dennis / Lang, Thilo / Brachert, Matthias (2020): Praktiken des Wissenstransfers (Innovation und Wissenstransfer außerhalb der Agglomerationsräume, Band 2) (forum ifl 37), Leipzig, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde. 105 Seiten. Full text

Brachert, Mattias / Graffenberger, Martin / Lang, Thilo (2020): Innovation und Wissenstransfer außerhalb der Agglomerationsräume. Kontextfaktoren, Strukturen und räumliche Muster. (forum ifl 36), Leipzig, 147 S. ISBN 978-3-86082-109-1. Full text

Graffenberger, Martin (2020): Impulse für die Region: Schlüsselakteure in ländlichen Räumen. In: Horizonte erweitern, Perspektiven ändern: ländliche Räume als Innovationsräume verstehen und fördern. Berlin: Center for Responsible Research and Innovation (CeRRI) des Fraunhofer IAO, Seite 15-24. Full text

Lang, Thilo / Graffenberger, Martin / Vonnahme, Lukas (2019): Innovationsräume. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 36 S. (Dialektik des Globalen – Kernbegriffe; 11)

Graffenberger, Martin / Vonnahme, Lukas / Brachert, Matthias / Lang, Thilo (2019): Broadening perspectives: innovation outside of agglomerations. In: Innovation-based regional change in Europe: chances, risks and policy implications. Stuttgart: Fraunhofer Verlag, S. 47–64. Full text

Graffenberger Martin (2019): Großstadt top! Kleinstadt Flop? Zur Zentrumsfixierung in gängigen Innovationsdebatten. Unternehmen Region 1/2019, S. 38–40.