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My Ph.D project investigates the role of personal networks for knowledge flows in clusters. I aim to open and challenge the fashionable black box of local knowledge spillovers to shed light on concrete mechanisms of knowledge flows in personal networks at different spatial scales. I have conducted a case study on knowledge relations of high-tech firms in the Cambridge region using qualitative and quantitative methods.

More about my PhD research project: Knowledge Networks in the Cambridge IT Cluster

Additionally, I am working on a research project on the evolution of friendship and advice networks in collaboration with Achim Edelmann (Cambridge) and Thomas Grund (Oxford).

Moreover, I am working on a research project on the link of internationalisation and innovation in London in collaboration with Neil Lee (London School of Economics).

My general academic interests:

  • Urban and regional economic development

  • Entrepreneurship and innovation

  • Social networks, social capital, social inequality

  • Work and labour markets 

  • Production and diffusion of knowledge

  • Human-environment interrelationship

  • Philosophy and methodology of social science