Dr. Anna Butzin

Anna Butzin studied spatial planning with specialization in regional economic development and European structural policy at Technical University of Dortmund (graduated as Diplom-engineer) and at Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (graduated as M.Sc.). She wrote her doctoral thesis at the Department of Geography, Philipps-University of Marburg (title of thesis: „Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Biographies. A Methodological and Spatial Perspective”).

Since September 2006 Anna Butzin is researcher at the department Innovation, Space & Culture of Institute for Work and Technology.

• time-spatial aspects of knowledge generation in innovation processes
• further development of the research approach innovation biographies
• development and diffusion mechanisms of social innovations
• structural change and regional development

• Teaching assignments at Faculty of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund and at Institute of Interdisciplinary Work Studies, Faculty of Economics and Management, Leibniz University of Hannover.
• Visiting researcher at Sozialforschungsstelle, Technical University of Dortmund (February-April 2014)
• Best-paper award of the 2nd Central European Conference in Regional Science for the paper Butzin, A. (2007): Processes of innovation in the field of nanotechnology (conference paper).

• Member of steering committee of the project SI-Drive (7th EU-Framework program, area social science and humanities)
• Regional Studies Association
• Junges Forum der Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung