Dr. Anna Butzin

Researcher
Research Department Innovation, Space & Culture

Anna Butzin works as project coordinator in the research department of Innovation, Space and Culture at the Institute for Work and Technology. Anna Butzin studied spatial planning with specialization in regional economic development and European structural policy at Technical University of Dortmund and at Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. She wrote her doctoral thesis at the Department of Geography, Philipps-University of Marburg about “Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Biographies. A Methodological and Spatial Perspective”.

Research interests

• Development and spatial diffusion of social innovation
• Structural change in cities and regions
• Locally anchored companies
• Innovation and regional development
• New actors in local and regional innovation systems

Publications (Selection)

Rabadjieva, Maria / Butzin, Anna
2020: Emergence and diffusion of social innovation through practice fields, European Planning Studies, 28:5, 925-940
https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1577362
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Butzin, Anna / Terstriep, Judith
2018: Actors and roles in social innovation. In: Howaldt, Jürgen / Kaletka, Christoph / Schröder, Antonius / Zirngiebl, Marthe (eds.): Atlas of social innovation: new practices for a better future. Dortmund: Technische Univ., Sozialforschungsstelle, p. 77-80
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Butzin, Anna / Widmaier, Brigitta
2016: Exploring territorial knowledge dynamics through innovation biographies. In: Regional studies 20, issue 2, p. 220-232
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2014.1001353
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