Dr. Felix Claus Müller
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Felix Müller is research communication officer at the IRS. Within the department for research communication and management, he is responsible for media contacts, IRS's own print publications for science communication as well as online and social media communication. Ahead of his work in science communication, Felix was a postdoctoral researcher in Research Area "Economy and Civil Society" pursuing research on innovation and economic value creation. He holds a PhD in economic geography from Freie Universität Berlin and a Masters degree in regional science from Universität Potsdam. As a student he also spent time at the University of Bucharest (Romania) and the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University (UK).

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 07/2015 - 06/2019
Geographies of Dissociation: The Social Construction of Value from a Spatial Perspective

This research project seeks to analyse processes of social construction of economic value from a spatial perspective, using the example of the global fur industry. The main idea is to combine two approaches. In the cultural geographic discourse, contributors highlight that commodities achieve high prices on markets if they are successfully associated with entities representing positive, extra-economic values. more info

Third-party funded project 02/2023 - 03/2024
Repository for Policy Documents (REPOD)

Political decisions are increasingly based on diverse empirical research results and expert opinions. However, searching for these advisory documents can be tedious and time-consuming. With the joint project "Repository for Policy Documents" (REPOD), in which the IRS is participating, a digital repository is being established that makes advisory documents searchable across disciplines and in a targeted manner and ensures uniform quality assurance. The goal is to create an information and advisory infrastructure for politics and society by the beginning of 2024 that makes the transfer of knowledge from research much easier. more info

Selected Publications by Year

2021
Müller, F. C., Kleibert, J. M., & Ibert, O. (2021). Hiding in the Spotlight: Commodifying Nature and the Geographies of Dissociation in the Fur Fashion Complex. Economic Geography, 97(1), 89-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2020.1858713
2020
Kleibert, J. M., Hess, M., & Müller, F. C. (2020). Sites of Contestation in Global Fur Networks. Geoforum, (108), 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.11.009
2019
Müller, F. C. (2019). Finance, Innovation and Geography: How Investors Harness Knowledge Dynamics in German Biotechnology. (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology). Routledge.
Ibert, O., Hess, M., Kleibert, J. M., Müller, F. C., & Power, D. (2019). Positioning and ‘Doing’ Geographies of Dissociation. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(1), 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619832725
Ibert, O., Hess, M., Kleibert, J. M., Müller, F. C., & Power, D. (2019). Geographies of Dissociation: Value Creation, ‚Dark‘ Places and ‚Missing‘ Links. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(1), 43-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619831114
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215474
    • 2018
    Schmidt, S., Müller, F. C., Ibert, O., & Brinks, V. (2018). Open Region: Creating and Exploiting Opportunities for Innovation at the Regional Scale. European Urban and Regional Studies, 25(2), 187-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776417705942
    Brinks, V., Ibert, O., Müller, F. C., & Schmidt, S. (2018). From Ignorance to Innovation: Serendipitous and Purposeful Mobility in Creative Processes - The Cases of Biotechnology, Legal Services and Board Games. Environment and Planning A, 50(8), 1742-1763. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18758327
    2017
    Ibert, O., Brinks, V., Müller, F. C., & Schmidt, S. (2017). Offene Region: Regionale Gelegenheiten zur Innovation schaffen und nutzen. Unternehmen Region, 2(2017), 31-33. https://www.bmbf.de/pub/Unternehmen_Region_2_2017.pdf
  • https://www.bmbf.de/pub/Unternehmen_Region_2_2017.pdf
    • Kleibert, J. M., & Müller, F. C. (2017). Femininity and the Rise of ‘Ethical Fur’: How Fashion Designers Create Alternative Understandings of Value and Construct Gendered Identities. Journal of Consumer Ethics, 1(2), 55-62. https://journal.ethicalconsumer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/JCE_2017_2_55_62_Kleibert__Muller.pdf
  • https://journal.ethicalconsumer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/JCE_2017_2_55_62_Kleibert__Muller.pdf
    • 2015
    Ibert, O., & Müller, F. C. (2015). Network Dynamics in Constellations of Cultural Differences: Relational Distance in Innovation Processes in Legal Services and Biotechnology. Research Policy, 44(1), 181-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.016
    Müller, F. C., Brinks, V., Ibert, O., & Schmidt, S. (2015). Open Region: Leitbild für eine regionale Innovationspolitik der Schaffung und Nutzung von Gelegenheiten. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 53). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1077580029/34
  • http://www.irs-net.de/download/wp_open-region.pdf
    • Müller, F. C., & Ibert, O. (2015). (Re-)sources of Innovation: Understanding and Comparing Time-Spatial Innovation Dynamics through the Lens of Communities of Practice. Geoforum, 65, 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.10.007
    Müller, F. C. (2015). Innovative Unternehmer als raumwirksame Schlüsselfiguren: Befunde aus der Beobachtung von Innovationsprozessen in der Biotechnologie. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 54). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1080246894/34
    2014
    Ibert, O., Müller, F. C., & Stein, A. (2014). Produktive Differenzen: Eine dynamische Netzwerkanalyse von Innovationsprozessen. (Science Studies). Transcript.
    Müller, F. C., & Ibert, O. (2014). (Re-)Sources of Innovation: Understanding and Comparing Innovation Dynamics through the Lens of Communities of Practice. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 52). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1047247488/34
    Ibert, O., & Müller, F. C. (2014). Zur Entfaltung von Innovationen in Raum und Zeit: Befunde einer ideenzentrierten, dynamischen Netzwerkanalyse und ihre politischen Implikationen. In M. Miosga, & S. Hafner (Eds.), Regionalentwicklung im Zeichen der Großen Transformation: Strategien für Ressourceneffizienz, demografischen Wandel und Innovationsfähigkeit (pp. 183-215). Oekom.
    2013
    Ibert, O., & Müller, F. C. (2013). Idea-Centered, Dynamic Knowledge Network Analysis: Tracing the Unfolding of Innovation through Space and Time: 35th DRUID Celebration Conference 2013, Barcelona, Spain, June 17-19. Unknown Publisher. http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/acc_papers/vs02b018p1vuqig38t88u0otaoxy.pdf

    Selected Publications by Type

    Monograph
    Müller, F. C. (2019). Finance, Innovation and Geography: How Investors Harness Knowledge Dynamics in German Biotechnology. (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology). Routledge.
    Ibert, O., Müller, F. C., & Stein, A. (2014). Produktive Differenzen: Eine dynamische Netzwerkanalyse von Innovationsprozessen. (Science Studies). Transcript.
    Journal Article
    Müller, F. C., Kleibert, J. M., & Ibert, O. (2021). Hiding in the Spotlight: Commodifying Nature and the Geographies of Dissociation in the Fur Fashion Complex. Economic Geography, 97(1), 89-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2020.1858713
    Kleibert, J. M., Hess, M., & Müller, F. C. (2020). Sites of Contestation in Global Fur Networks. Geoforum, (108), 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.11.009
    Ibert, O., Hess, M., Kleibert, J. M., Müller, F. C., & Power, D. (2019). Positioning and ‘Doing’ Geographies of Dissociation. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(1), 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619832725
    Ibert, O., Hess, M., Kleibert, J. M., Müller, F. C., & Power, D. (2019). Geographies of Dissociation: Value Creation, ‚Dark‘ Places and ‚Missing‘ Links. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(1), 43-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619831114
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215474
    • Schmidt, S., Müller, F. C., Ibert, O., & Brinks, V. (2018). Open Region: Creating and Exploiting Opportunities for Innovation at the Regional Scale. European Urban and Regional Studies, 25(2), 187-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776417705942
    Brinks, V., Ibert, O., Müller, F. C., & Schmidt, S. (2018). From Ignorance to Innovation: Serendipitous and Purposeful Mobility in Creative Processes - The Cases of Biotechnology, Legal Services and Board Games. Environment and Planning A, 50(8), 1742-1763. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18758327
    Ibert, O., Brinks, V., Müller, F. C., & Schmidt, S. (2017). Offene Region: Regionale Gelegenheiten zur Innovation schaffen und nutzen. Unternehmen Region, 2(2017), 31-33. https://www.bmbf.de/pub/Unternehmen_Region_2_2017.pdf
  • https://www.bmbf.de/pub/Unternehmen_Region_2_2017.pdf
    • Kleibert, J. M., & Müller, F. C. (2017). Femininity and the Rise of ‘Ethical Fur’: How Fashion Designers Create Alternative Understandings of Value and Construct Gendered Identities. Journal of Consumer Ethics, 1(2), 55-62. https://journal.ethicalconsumer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/JCE_2017_2_55_62_Kleibert__Muller.pdf
  • https://journal.ethicalconsumer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/JCE_2017_2_55_62_Kleibert__Muller.pdf
    • Ibert, O., & Müller, F. C. (2015). Network Dynamics in Constellations of Cultural Differences: Relational Distance in Innovation Processes in Legal Services and Biotechnology. Research Policy, 44(1), 181-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.016
    Müller, F. C., & Ibert, O. (2015). (Re-)sources of Innovation: Understanding and Comparing Time-Spatial Innovation Dynamics through the Lens of Communities of Practice. Geoforum, 65, 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.10.007
    Contribution to Anthology
    Ibert, O., & Müller, F. C. (2014). Zur Entfaltung von Innovationen in Raum und Zeit: Befunde einer ideenzentrierten, dynamischen Netzwerkanalyse und ihre politischen Implikationen. In M. Miosga, & S. Hafner (Eds.), Regionalentwicklung im Zeichen der Großen Transformation: Strategien für Ressourceneffizienz, demografischen Wandel und Innovationsfähigkeit (pp. 183-215). Oekom.
    Working Paper, Discussion Paper
    Müller, F. C., Brinks, V., Ibert, O., & Schmidt, S. (2015). Open Region: Leitbild für eine regionale Innovationspolitik der Schaffung und Nutzung von Gelegenheiten. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 53). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1077580029/34
  • http://www.irs-net.de/download/wp_open-region.pdf
    • Müller, F. C. (2015). Innovative Unternehmer als raumwirksame Schlüsselfiguren: Befunde aus der Beobachtung von Innovationsprozessen in der Biotechnologie. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 54). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1080246894/34
    Müller, F. C., & Ibert, O. (2014). (Re-)Sources of Innovation: Understanding and Comparing Innovation Dynamics through the Lens of Communities of Practice. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 52). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1047247488/34
    Ibert, O., & Müller, F. C. (2013). Idea-Centered, Dynamic Knowledge Network Analysis: Tracing the Unfolding of Innovation through Space and Time: 35th DRUID Celebration Conference 2013, Barcelona, Spain, June 17-19. Unknown Publisher. http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/acc_papers/vs02b018p1vuqig38t88u0otaoxy.pdf

    Talks

    2018
    Geographies of Dissociation: Value Creation Through Omission in the Global Fur Industry

    5th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018

    July/26/2018
    Köln, Germany

    2017
    Fur Fashion and the Geography of Dissociations

    Missing Links. Creating Value in Fashion

    October/27/2017
    Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Journeys of an Exceptional Material: Fur in Contemporary Geographies of Fashion

    RGS-IBG Annual Conference

    August/30/2017
    London, London, Germany

    Entrepreneure mit beschränktem Einfluss – Zur Rolle unternehmerischer Individuen in raumzeitlich verteilten Innovationsprozessen

    14. Rauischholzhausener Symposium zur Wirtschaftsgeographie

    April/29/2017
    Rauischholzhausen, Rauischholzhausen, Germany

    People, pelts, and policies: a methodological conversation on studying global networks

    Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers 2017

    April/08/2017
    Boston, Boston, United States

    Moving beyond the founder in biotech entrepreneurialism. Distributed agency and the variety of enterprising individuals in geographies of innovation

    Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers 2017

    April/07/2017
    Boston, Boston, United States

    2016
    Probing geographies of dissociation in the fur-fashion industry

    Interdisciplinary Workshop on Geographies of Dissociation

    November/25/2016
    Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

    How is fur made valuable in fashion? Multi-local engagements with two global industries

    seminar

    November/18/2016

    Geographies of Dissociation: multi-site encounters with the global fur industry and fur fashion

    Department seminar

    November/17/2016

    Who makes markets and why?

    Summer Institute on Economic Geography

    July/13/2016
    Lexington, KY, Lexington, KY, United States

    Open Region. A Heuristic for Regional Innovation Policies that Create and Exploit Opportunities for Innovations

    19th Uddevalla Symposium 2016 on Geography, Open Innovation, Diversity and Entrepreneurship

    June/30/2016
    London, London, Germany

    Dr. Felix Claus Müller in the Media

    Chancen für die zweite Reihe
    (Berliner Zeitung, 02/28/2019)
    Klein- und Mittelstädte in strukturschwachen Regionen
    (Umwelt Briefe, 01/01/2019)
    Inspirationen aus der Ferne
    (Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, 08/30/2017)

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