Academic Presentations

 

01.09.2010
 

 

"On the Role and Interrelationship of Spatial, Social and Cognitive Proximity: Personal Knowledge Networks of R&D Workers in the Cambridge IT Cluster". Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London, UK
 

 

23.06.2010
 

 

"On the Role and Interrelationship of Spatial, Social and Cognitive Proximity: Personal Knowledge Networks of R&D Workers in the Cambridge IT Cluster" (invited talk). Experience the Creative Economy. Martin Prosperity Institute, Toronto, Canada
 

 

17.06.2010
 

 

"Do Clusters Really Matter for Innovation Practices in Information Technology? Questioning the Significance of Technological Knowledge Spillovers" DRUID Summer Conference 2010, London, UK
 

  22.09.2009  

"Spatial, social and cognitive proximity in networks: knowledge workers in the Cambridge IT Cluster". Deutscher Geographentag 2009, Wien, Austria

 

  16.06.2009  

"Does the Cluster matter for innovation practices of knowledge workers? Lessons from the Cambridge IT Cluster" (invited talk). Stavanger Innovation Summit, Stavanger, Norway

 

  07.04.2009

 

"Knowledge workers in the Cambridge IT Cluster: knowledge spillovers through personal networks?". Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, Leuven, Belgium

 

 

28.08.2008

 

"Personal Networks in the Cambridge IT Cluster: a Critical Investigation of Knowledge Interactions". Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London

 

 

30.04.2008

 

"Personal Networks and Knowledge Flows. On the Role of Proximity in the Cambridge IT Cluster". 5th Annual Cluster Research Workshop 2008 "Networks in Society and Economy". Department of Geography. University of Cambridge, UK

 

  22.11.2007  

"Personal Networks and Knowledge Flows in Clusters. Absorption, Leakage and Spatial Dimensions in the Cambridge IT Cluster" (invited talk). Library House Science Club. Cambridge, UK

 

 

29.09.2007

 

"Social Capital: Conceptual Problems and Actor-Centered Perspectives of Social Networks and Social Resources". Deutscher Geographentag 2007. AK Geographie und Gesellschaftstheorie. Bayreuth, Germany

 

17.04.2007

 

 

"Going Beyond the 'Thematic Turn' of Relationality? The Scope of Concepts and Methods of Social Network Analysis". Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2007. San Francisco, USA

 

22.03.2007

 

 

"The Social Network Foundation of Knowledge Spillovers in Industrial Clusters. An Investigation of Mechanisms in Cambridge" (invited). Discussion of doctoral students' work. ESRC Doctoral Workshop. Centre for Entrepreneurship. Durham Business School. Durham University, UK

 

02.05.2005

 

 

"Social Network Analysis: Theoretical Backgrounds and Analysis of Knowledge Flows" (invited talk). ICT&S Center (Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society). University of Salzburg, Austria

 

19.04.2005

 

 

"On Self-Organisation in Social Systems". Invited guest lecture in the course "Technology Assessment". Department of Communication Science. University of Salzburg, Austria

  15.12.2004  

 

"Social Network Analysis: Theoretical Backgrounds for Meaningful Interpretation, Application for Researching Localised Knowledge Spillovers", ARC systems research - Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf. Seibersdorf, Austria

  01.10.2003  

 

"Barockes Salzburg. Zur Normalisierung von Raumkonstruktionen" [Baroque Salzburg. On Normalisation of spatial constructs] (together with T. Jekel). Deutscher Geographentag Bern. Bern, Switzerland