Prof. Dr. Suntje Schmidt

Head of Research Area | Economy and Civil Society

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Prof. Dr. Suntje Schmidt currently is the heading the Research Area “Economy and Civil Society”. She also holds a professorship for Applied Economic Geography at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 01.10.2019 up until 30.09.2020 she had a temporary professorship for economic geography at RWTH Aachen.

She joined the Research Area “Economy and Civil Society” at the IRS in 2002 and became deputy head of the research department in 2012. In 2016 she was additionally appointed as junior professor for Applied Economic Geography at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Suntje Schmidt studied Geography, American Studies, and Business Administration at the Technische Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and City College in New York. In 2012 she defended her doctoral thesis on “Channels, Effects and spatial Implications of Knowledge Spillovers in the Knowledge Economy” at the Department of Geography at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

She worked as a student assistant and later as a research fellow with Empirica, a private research and consultancy firm based in Berlin and Bonn. At the IRS she worked as a project coordinator as well as a project leader of several international research projects and as a research fellow in both, third party funded and institutionally funded research projects. In her research she focuses on the spatial dimension of knowledge sharing arrangements, new uncertainties and resilience strategies in volatile labor markets and open creative labs as open spaces for sharing, generating and applying knowledge. Suntje Schmidt also taught Bachelors and Masters students at the University of Potsdam, the Brandenburg University of Technology, the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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Projects

Ongoing Lead Projects

Lead project 01/2022 - 12/2025

Post-Office - Spatio-temporal Transformation Processes in Knowledge-generating Forms of Cooperation

The lead project of the research focus "Economy and Civil Society" addresses profound transformation processes in knowledge and innovation societies, which in turn are characterised by disruptive events. The lead project "Post-Office" aims to understand the dynamics of change in knowledge-generating cooperation with its disruptive elements and to discuss resulting consequences for urban and rural regions. more info

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 01/2021 - 10/2025

Exploring the Impacts of Collaborative Workspaces in Rural and Peripheral Areas in the EU (CORAL)

CORAL aims to unpack the latent dynamics and impacts of collaborative workspaces (hereafter CWS, such as coworking spaces, fablabs, creative hubs etc.) in rural and peripheral areas and integrate them as development tools in local and regional policies to open up new potentials for socio-economic development. Whereas we have observed the rapid rise of CWS in urban agglomerations in the past 15 years, there is now a gradual rise of CWS in rural and peripheral areas too. The CORAL project offers specialised and tailor-made training to 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESR: PhD candidates), helping them to better understand and support the development processes of CWSin rural and peripheral areas and their wider impacts at the local and regional level as well as at the level of the individual worker and the enterprise. more info

Third-party funded project 09/2022 - 08/2025

Strong through Open Innovation Regions: Identifying Innovation Potential - Avoiding Lock-Ins - Expanding Societal Innovation Capacity (SOIR)

How can regional innovation policies be developed in structurally weak regions that mostly lack a critical mass of actors, institutions and a "creative buzz" to generate innovations from endogenous potentials? The research project "Strong through Open Innovation Regions" aims to close this explanatory gap by systematically interweaving regional conditions (regional innovation ecosystems) and supraregional references (translocal innovation ecosystems). To this end, we are developing an original contribution to the conceptual sharpening of societal innovation capacity with the Social Open Innovation Region (SOIR) approach. more info

Third-party funded project 02/2024 - 07/2027

REmote-Working Multiple Impacts in the Age of Disruptions: Socioeconomic Transformations, Territorial RethinKING, and Policy Actions (REMAKING)

The project "Remaking: REmote - working Multiple impacts in the Age of disruptions: socioeconomic transformations, territorial rethinKING, and policy actions" understands remote work as a lever that contributes to shaping ongoing social, economic and spatial structural transformations. The project aims to create a policy-oriented framework that reflects the new and multi-layered realities of work and facilitates policy makers to pursue place-based policies that balance the opportunities and risks of remote forms of work, and to exchange practices to promote mutual learning on remote work in the context of disruptions and megatrends. more info

Ongoing Cross-departmental Projects

Cross-departmental project 01/2022 - 12/2025

Disruption and Spatial Development: Concepts on Spatio-temporal Dynamics, Modes of Perception and Strategies for Action

The bridge project "Disruption and spatial development: concepts on spatio-temporal dynamics, modes of perception and strategies of action" continues the conceptual elaboration of the disruption heuristic, uses it to interpret empirical findings in the lead project research (and beyond) and, conversely, incorporates suggestions from the empirical research of the lead projects into the further conceptual development. more info

Completed Lead Projects

Platform Ecology: Creative Collaboration in the Field of Tension between Virtual and Concrete Spaces in the Case of Fashion Design

Completed Third-party Funded Projects

Open Region: Regional Challenges as Starting Points for Innovation (Innovation Hub13 – Fast Track to Transfer)

Selected Publications by Year

2025

Hussels, J., Richter, R., & Schmidt, S. (2025, Jan 26). Wie kommt das Neue auf das Land? Forscher erkunden die Innovationskraft der Kreise Nordfriesland und Ludwigslust-Parchim. Landkreis Ludwigslust-Parchim. https://www.kreis-lup.de/index.php?La=1&NavID=3378.24&object=med,3378.13746.1.PDF

2024

Hussels, J., Schmidt, S., & Richter, R. (2024, Dec 10). Wirtschaftsförderer in Nordfriesland und Ludwigslust-Parchim rücken zusammen. sh:z Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag GmbH & Co. KG. https://www.shz.de/lokales/wir-von-hier/nordfriesland/artikel/wirtschaftsfoerderer-in-nf-und-ludwigslust-parchim-ruecken-zusammen-48098735

Schmidt, S. (2024). Creativity. An Evolving Critical Debate. In J. Johns, & S. M. Hall (Eds.), Contemporary Economic Geographies: Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspectives (pp. 205-217). Bristol University Press.

Schmidt, S. (Performer). (2024). Podcast "Abgeholt - Wissenschaft in vollen Zügen": Der ländliche Raum als Vorreiter für Veränderung: Innovatives kann man lernen - am besten gemeinsam. Digital or Visual Products https://www.podcast.de/episode/633155998/002-der-laendliche-raum-als-vorreiter-fuer-veraenderung

Ammaturo, F., & Schmidt, S. (2024). Valuation in Rural Social Innovation Processes: Analysing Micro-Impact of a Collaborative Community in Southern Italy. Societies, 14(6), [76]. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14060076

Richter, R., Hussels, J., & Schmidt, S. (2024, Sep 13). Wissenschaft erforscht Innovationspotentiale im Landkreis LUP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS0ewI3PDvA

Hussels, J., Richter, R., & Schmidt, S. (2024). The Impact of Dissonance? A Valuation Perspective on Rural Social Innovation Processes. Societies, 14(7), [122]. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14070122

Schmidt, S., Stadermann, J., & Rottleb, T. (2024). Open Region: Regionale Problemlagen als Ausgangspunkte von Innovationen: Ausführlicher Abschlussbericht des Teilprojektes "Open Region" in der innovativen Hochschule "Innovation Hub 13 - Fast Track to Transfer".

Schmidt, S., Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2024). Placing Career Resilience: Collaborative Workspaces as Situated Resources for Adaptation and Adaptability. Progress in Economic Geography, 2(1), [100004]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2023.100004

2023

Rottleb, T., & Schmidt, S. (2023, Oct). Wissenstransfer als kritische Infrastrukturierung: Vier Thesen zur Gestaltung von Wissenstransfer als Zusammenspiel von Wissenschaft und gesellschaftlicher Innovationsfähigkeit. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/279789

Schmidt, S. (2023). The Relational Infrastructure of Open Creative Labs. In A. L. Bain, & J. A. Podmore (Eds.), The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities (pp. 49-60). (Urban Worlds). Agenda Publishing.

Schmidt, S., & Stadermann, J. (2023). Innovation Salons – Events for Dialogical Knowledge Transfer Between Civil Society and Higher Education Institutions. Local Economy, 37(6), 526–538. https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942231165920

Ibert, O., & Schmidt, S. (2023). Wissen und Lernen. In L. Suwala (Ed.), Schlüsselbegriffe der Wirtschaftsgeographie (pp. 101-114). (UTB; No. 5391). Verlag Eugen Ulmer. https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838553917

Schmidt, S. (2023). Mariotti, Ilaria; di Vita, Stefano; Akhavan, Mina (Hrsg.) (2021): New Workplaces – Location Patterns, Urban Effects and Development Trajectories. A Worldwide Investigation. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 81(1), 86-88. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.14512/rur.1654

2022

Daldrup, V., Madina, I., Rottleb, T., & Schmidt, S. (2022, Dec 8). Creating Impact – Wie können Hochschulen zu regionalen Transformationsprozessen beitragen? https://innohub13.de/creating-impact/

Schmidt, S. (2022). Die kreative Region. In U. Ermann, M. Höfner, S. Hostniker, E. M. Preininger, & D. Simic (Eds.), Die Region - Eine Begriffserkundung (pp. 191-202). (Sozial- und Kulturgeographie; Vol. 52). Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460108

Stadermann, J., & Schmidt, S. (2022). Innovation Salon „Baruth und das Gesundheitshaus“. https://innohub13.de/innovationsalon/baruth-und-das-gesundheitshaus/

Stadermann, J., & Schmidt, S. (2022). Innovation Salon „Instrumente für einen mehrdirektionalen Wissenstransfer“. https://innohub13.de/en/innovationsalon/instrumente-fuer-einen-mehrdirektionalen-wissenstransfer/

Stadermann, J., & Schmidt, S. (2022). Innovation Salon „Geht das auch digital? Medienpädagogische Inhalte in der Jugendsozialarbeit“. https://innohub13.de/innovationsalon/geht-das-auch-digital-medienpaedagogische-inhalte-in-der-jugendsozialarbeit/

Daldrup, V., Madina, I., Pomp, C., Schmidt, S., & Stadermann, J. (2022). Whitepaper WTT Impact Canvas: Entwicklung und Pilotierung eines Canvas zur Darstellung der Wirkung von Transfermaßnahmen. (Fast track to transfer / Working Paper; No. 006). https://doi.org/10.15771/innohub_6

Schmidt, S. (2022). Zur Rolle der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft in Transformationsprozessen. 11-13. Transformation mit der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft, Berlin, Germany. https://kreativ-bund.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Transformation-mit-der-KKW_Doku_Wissenschaftsnetzwerk_2021.pdf

Ibert, O., Oechslen, A., Repenning, A., & Schmidt, S. (2022, Mar 14). Geht regional auch digital? Handlungsansätze zur Gestaltung von regionalen digitalen Plattformen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/251348

Ibert, O., Oechslen, A., Repenning, A., & Schmidt, S. (2022). Platform Ecology: A User-centric and Relational Conceptualization of Online Platforms. Global Networks, 22(3), 564-579. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12355

2021

Lange, B., & Schmidt, S. (2021). Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as a Bridging Concept? A Conceptual Contribution to the Debate on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. Growth and Change, 52(2), 790-807. https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12409

2020

Lange, B., Schmidt, S., & Merkel, J. (2020). Governanceformen von Makerspaces: Steuerungs- und Handlungsprämissen im Blick. In V. Heinzel, T. Seidl, & R. Stang (Eds.), Lernwelt Makerspace: Perspektiven im öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Kontext (pp. 19-32). De Gruyter.

Schmidt, S. (2020). Open Creative Labs – Treffpunkte für Kreative? Standort: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geographie, 44, 67-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-020-00638-x

Schmidt, S. (2020). Kreative Ökonomien in der Hauptstadtregion Berlin-Brandenburg. In S. Becker, & M. Naumann (Eds.), Regionalentwicklung in Ostdeutschland: Dynamiken, Perspektiven und der Beitrag der Humangeographie (pp. 149-161). Springer Spektrum.

2019

Schmidt, S. (2019). In the Making: Open Creative Labs as an Emerging Topic in Economic Geography? Geography Compass, 13(9), [e12463]. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12463

Hautala, J., & Schmidt, S. (2019). Learning Across Distances: An International Collaborative Learning Project between Berlin and Turku. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 43(2), 181-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2019.1599331

2018

Ibert, O., Brinks, V., & Schmidt, S. (2018, Nov 29). Open Creative Labs in the Urban Context: Why do they Proliferate? University of Manchester. http://blogs.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/mui/open-creative-labs-in-the-urban-context-why-do-they-proliferate/

Ibert, O., Brinks, V., & Schmidt, S. (2018, May 25). Do It! Partizipation und Innovation durch "Machen" in Open Creative Labs: Politische Gestaltungsaufgaben und Förderoptionen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/2018_Policy-Paper_Do-it.pdf

https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/2018_Policy-Paper_Do-it.pdf

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/222306

Schmidt, S., Ibert, O., Kühn, J., & Kuebart, A. (2018). Open Creative Labs in Deutschland – Räumliche Konfigurationen für Temporäres Experimentieren und Arbeiten. In H. Pechlaner, & E. Innerhofer (Eds.), Temporäre Konzepte: Coworking und Coliving als Perspekive für die Regionalentwicklung (pp. 60-76). Kohlhammer.

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., Schmidt, S., Brinks, V., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2018). Open Creative Labs in Deutschland: Typologisierung, Verbreitung, Entwicklungsbedingungen und politische Gestaltung.

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

Schmidt, S., & Brinks, V. (2017). Open Creative Labs: Spatial Settings at the Intersection of Communities and Organizations. Creativity and Innovation Management, 26(3), 291–299. https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12220

Lange, B., Schmidt, S., Domann, V., Ibert, O., Kühn, J., & Kuebart, A. (2017). Basteln – Gestalten – Experimentieren: Offene kreative Orte in Deutschland. Nationalatlas, 11,3. http://aktuell.nationalatlas.de/kreative_orte-3_04-2017-0-html/

http://aktuell.nationalatlas.de/kreative_orte-3_04-2017-0-html/

2016

Schmidt, S., Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2016, Nov 1). Open Creative Labs: Typologisierung, Verbreitung und Entwicklungsbedingungen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.

2015

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

Kleibrink, A., & Schmidt, S. (2015). Communities of Practice as New Actors: Innovation Labs Inside and Outside Government. In Open Innovation 2.0 Yearbook 2015 (pp. 64-73). European Commission. https://doi.org/10.2759/92658

Schmidt, S. (2015). Balancing the Spatial Localisation ‘Tilt’: Knowledge Spillovers in Processes of Knowledge-Intensive Services. Geoforum, 65, 374–386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.05.009

Zwilling, J., Ibert, O., Christmann, G., Schmidt, S., & Honeck, T. (2015, Mar). Urbane Experimente: IRS aktuell No. 82. Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung.

Ibert, O., & Schmidt, S. (2015). Vorsicht, Sackgasse! Anpassung und Anpassungsfähigkeit in volatilen Arbeitsmärkten. Das Beispiel Musicaldarsteller. In M. Endreß, & A. Maurer (Eds.), Resilienz im Sozialen: Theoretische und empirische Analysen (pp. 207-241). Springer VS.

Brinks, V., & Schmidt, S. (2015). Global Knowledge Communities in Temporary Spaces. Paper presented at Transience and Permanence in Urban Development (TPUD), Sheffield, United Kingdom. http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.452220!/file/BrinksSchmidt.pdf

2014

Schmidt, S., Brinks, V., & Brinkhoff, S. (2014). Innovation and Creativity Labs in Berlin: Organizing Temporary Spatial Configurations for Innovations. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 58(4), 232-247. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw.2014.0016

Schmidt, S. (2014). Die Praxis der Kreativität: Eine Ethnografie kreativer Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 61(1), 56-57. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2016-0040

Ibert, O., & Schmidt, S. (2014). Once You Are in You Might Need to Get Out: Adaptation and Adaptability in Volatile Labor Markets - the Case of Musical Actors. Social Sciences, 3(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci3010001

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215487

2013

Schmidt, S., Minniberger, C., Płoszaj, A., & Plaschnick, Y. (Eds.) (2013). Knowledge Network Management Transfer: Strategic Guideline and Policy Recommendations. Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Scholar". http://www.euroreg.uw.edu.pl/dane/web_euroreg_publications_files/2885/knowledge_network_management_transfer_2012.pdf

2012

Schmidt, S. (2012). Universities as Knowledge Nodes in Open Innovation Systems. In R. Capello, A. Olechnicka, & G. Gorzelak (Eds.), Universities, Cities and Regions: Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation (pp. 82-98). (Routledge Studies in Global Competition). Routledge.

Schmidt, S. (2012). Wissensspillover in der Wissensökonomie: Kanäle, Effekte und räumliche Ausprägungen. (Stadt- und Regionalwissenschaften; No. 8). LIT.

Ibert, O., & Schmidt, S. (2012). Acting on Multiple Stages: How Musical Actors Construct Their Labour-Market Vulnerability and Resilience. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 70(4), 349-361.

Minniberger, C., Olechnicka, A., Płoszaj, A., & Schmidt, S. (Eds.) (2012). Knowledge Network Management Toolbox. Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Scholar". http://www.know-man.eu/files/155839593/file/knowledge_network_management_toolbox.pdf

http://www.know-man.eu/files/155839593/file/knowledge_network_management_toolbox.pdf

2011

Wolke, M., & Schmidt, S. (2011). Deutschland neu gesehen? Ausdifferenzierung des deutschen Städtesystems durch Wissensökonomie. In U. Altrock, J. Aring, U. Hahne, & I. Reuther (Eds.), Gewinnen: Verlieren. Transformieren. Die Europäischen Stadtregionen in Bewegung. Die europäischen Stadtregionen in Bewegung (pp. 53-71). (Schriften des Fachbereichs Architektur, Stadtplanung, Landschaftsplanung der Universität Kassel; No. 2). Reimer.

Minniberger, C., & Schmidt, S. (2011). Berlin`s Knowledge Atlas for Future Entrepreneurs: Optical Technologies. Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. http://www.irs-net.de/download/aktuelles/KnowManBroschure.pdf

2010

Kujath, H. J., & Schmidt, S. (2010). Räume der Wissenschaft und des Lernens - Koordinationsmechanismen der Wissensgenerierung in der Wissensökonomie. In H. Kilper (Ed.), Governance und Raum (pp. 161-188). Nomos.

Schmidt, S. (2010). Beziehungen der Wissensgenerierung von Hochtechnologiebetrieben und Transaktionsdienstleistern in deutschen Stadtregionen. In H. J. Kujath, & S. Zillmer (Eds.), Räume der Wissensökonomie: Implikationen für das deutsche Städtesystem (pp. 247-282). LIT.

Kujath, H. J., & Schmidt, S. (2010). Wissensökonomie und Städtesystem. In H. J. Kujath, & S. Zillmer (Eds.), Räume der Wissensökonomie: Implikationen für das deutsche Städtesystem (pp. 83-101). LIT.

2009

SCHMIDT, S., & WOLKE, M. (2009). The Importance of Infrastructures and Interaction Networks for Regional Competitiveness in the Knowledge Economy. In H. Kilper (Ed.), German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2009: New Disparities in Spatial Development in Europe. (pp. 51-66). Springer.

Selected Publications by Type

Monograph

Schmidt, S. (2012). Wissensspillover in der Wissensökonomie: Kanäle, Effekte und räumliche Ausprägungen. (Stadt- und Regionalwissenschaften; No. 8). LIT.

Anthology

http://www.know-man.eu/files/155839593/file/knowledge_network_management_toolbox.pdf

Journal Article

Hussels, J., Richter, R., & Schmidt, S. (2024). The Impact of Dissonance? A Valuation Perspective on Rural Social Innovation Processes. Societies, 14(7), [122]. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14070122

Schmidt, S. (2020). Open Creative Labs – Treffpunkte für Kreative? Standort: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geographie, 44, 67-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-020-00638-x

Schmidt, S. (2019). In the Making: Open Creative Labs as an Emerging Topic in Economic Geography? Geography Compass, 13(9), [e12463]. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12463

https://www.bmbf.de/pub/Unternehmen_Region_2_2017.pdf

http://aktuell.nationalatlas.de/kreative_orte-3_04-2017-0-html/

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215487

Ibert, O., & Schmidt, S. (2012). Acting on Multiple Stages: How Musical Actors Construct Their Labour-Market Vulnerability and Resilience. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 70(4), 349-361.

Contribution to Anthology

Schmidt, S. (2023). The Relational Infrastructure of Open Creative Labs. In A. L. Bain, & J. A. Podmore (Eds.), The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities (pp. 49-60). (Urban Worlds). Agenda Publishing.

Article in Conference Documentation

Conference Paper

Contribution to Forum or Blog

Daldrup, V., Madina, I., Rottleb, T., & Schmidt, S. (2022, Dec 8). Creating Impact – Wie können Hochschulen zu regionalen Transformationsprozessen beitragen? https://innohub13.de/creating-impact/

Stadermann, J., & Schmidt, S. (2022). Innovation Salon „Baruth und das Gesundheitshaus“. https://innohub13.de/innovationsalon/baruth-und-das-gesundheitshaus/

Digital or Visual Products

Event-related Publication

Richter, R., Hussels, J., & Schmidt, S. (2024, Sep 13). Wissenschaft erforscht Innovationspotentiale im Landkreis LUP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS0ewI3PDvA

Expertise / Position Paper / Policy Paper

https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/2018_Policy-Paper_Do-it.pdf

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/222306

Schmidt, S., Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2016, Nov 1). Open Creative Labs: Typologisierung, Verbreitung und Entwicklungsbedingungen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.

Final or Preliminary Project Report (even if not published)

Ibert, O., Schmidt, S., Brinks, V., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2018). Open Creative Labs in Deutschland: Typologisierung, Verbreitung, Entwicklungsbedingungen und politische Gestaltung.

Publication (Science Communication)

Zwilling, J., Ibert, O., Christmann, G., Schmidt, S., & Honeck, T. (2015, Mar). Urbane Experimente: IRS aktuell No. 82. Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung.

Review in Journal

Schmidt, S. (2014). Die Praxis der Kreativität: Eine Ethnografie kreativer Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 61(1), 56-57. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2016-0040

Working Paper, Discussion Paper

http://www.irs-net.de/download/wp_open-region.pdf

Talks

2024

The entrepreneurial university in its regional context: Strategies, processes, and competing goals

RSA Annual Conference 2024 "Global Challenges, Regional Collaboration and the Role of Places"

June/13/2024
Florenz, Italy

Pitfalls and Potentials of Transdisciplinary Research

IRS Spring Academy 2024: Transdisciplinarity and Social Scientific Spatial Research

May/16/2024
Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany

2023

The Dual Nature of Disruption and the Necessity for a Socio-Spatial Perspective

Myths of Disruption

December/06/2023
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

“Post-Office”: Räumliche Perspektiven auf die Veränderungen in der wissensgenerierenden kollaborativen Arbeit

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023

September/20/2023
Goethe-Universität , Frankfurt am Main, Germany

On/offline spaces in creative processes

RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2023

August/31/2023
Royal Geographical Society & Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Platform Ecology: Placing Digital Platforms in Creative Processes

IAS Research Seminar

June/07/2023
Universität Loughorough, Loughorough, United Kingdom

Open Region – Heuristic for Innovation Policies

IAS Research Seminar

June/07/2023
Universität Loughorough, Loughorough, United Kingdom

Teilnahme an der Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Onlinehandel verändert Arbeitswelt"

In einer Zeit des Umbruchs – Arbeit und Wertschöpfung im Wandel

May/23/2023
Palisa, Berlin, Germany

Plattformökologie: Eine nutzer‐zentrierte und relationale Perspektive auf wirtschaftliche Interaktionen im on/offline Raum

16. Rauischholzhausener Symposium zur Wirtschaftsgeographie

April/29/2023
Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Rauischholzhausen, Germany

SOIR - Stark durch Offene Innovationsregionen

Kick-Off BMBF Programm Region.innovativ: Gesellschaftliche Innovationsfähigkeit

March/30/2023
online

2022

Transformation – Innovationen – Transfer

Policy Lab „Neue Wege für Wissenstransfer - Regionalen Wandel mit Hochschulen gestalten“

November/25/2022
Gewerbehof Luckenwalde, Luckenwalde, Germany

Innovation Salons: Creating Spaces for Dialogical Knowledge Transfer Between Universities and Civil Society at the Example “Baruth und das Gesundheitshaus”

Dimensions of Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Actors, Channels and Implications

June/30/2022
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Universities in Mission-Oriented Innovation Ecosystems: Challenges for Universities and Policies

6th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2022

June/08/2022
Trinity College und University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

2021

Platform Ecology: A User-centric and Relational Conceptualization of Online Platforms

On-/Offline Interferences. Digitalisation and Socio-Spatial Transformations

November/15/2021
IRS, Erkner (digital), Germany

Platform Ecology: A User-centric and Relational Conceptualization of Online Platforms

II Digital Geographies Conference (Virtual): Critical Perspectives on the Platform Economy

October/29/2021
Lissabon, Lissabon, Portugal

Digitalisierung und Home-Office – Künftige Anforderungen an (Arbeits-)Räume

13. Wildauer Bibliothekssymposium: Besonderer Raum Bibliothek

September/14/2021
Wildau, Wildau, Germany

2020

Beyond Transfer- Universities as ingredients in problem-centered solutions?

UNIVERSITIES & RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS – KEY DRIVERS OF FUTURE SMART CITIES

July/07/2020
virtuell

2019

»Open Creative Labs« New Perspectives on Technology Transfer

InnoX - Zukunftskonferenz 2019

September/18/2019
TH Wildau, Wildau, Germany

2018

Große Versprechungen? Ansprüche an und Rolle von Open Creative Labs in Regionen

Geographisches Kolloquium der RWTH Aachen

December/05/2018
RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Open Creative Labs as Local Anchors of Career-Related Resilience

Social Constructions of Resiliencies. Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Analyses.

November/21/2018
Leibniz Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung, Erkner, Germany

Boundlessly Open. Openness as the Double-Edged Sword of and for (Silent) Peripheries in the Center

5th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018

July/25/2018
Köln, Germany

Anchoring Resilience in and Through Open Creative Labs in Amsterdam, Berlin and Detroit

34th European Group of Organization Studies Colloquium (EGOS)

July/06/2018
Tallinn, Estonia

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as a Bridging Concept? A Conceptual Contribution to the Debate on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems – Conceptualizations, Measurements and Empirical Evidences

July/04/2018
University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Open Creative Labs – Typologies and User Motivations

Mosaic Summer School on the Management of Creativity

July/02/2018
Montreal, Berlin and Barcelona, Berlin, Germany

Communities – Organizations – Places. Place-Based Anchoring Resilience(s) in Open Creative Labs

Seminar Knowledge and Organisational Learning

March/15/2018
Egham, Egham, United Kingdom

You Have to Throw the Dices if You Want to Play

4th Geography of Innovation Conference

February/02/2018
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2017

Open Creative Labs – Zwischenorte für Ideen und Karieren

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2017

October/02/2017
Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Temporäre Nähe als Gestaltungselement in der Spieleentwicklung

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2017

October/01/2017
Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Open Creative Labs as Local Anchors in Translocal Work

Spatial Reconfigurations of Work in Cities

April/20/2017
Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Places for Resilience. Anchoring multiple forms of resilience in Open Creative Labs

Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers 2017

April/09/2017
Boston, Boston, United States

What Makes Berlin a Special Case for Collaborative Spaces?

Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS) Seminar

March/08/2017
Betahaus, Berlin, Germany

2016

Debating Typologies for Open Creative Labs. Examples from Germany

1st International RGCS Symposium - Work & Workplace Transformations

December/16/2016
Paris, Paris, France

Open Region: A contribution to territorial innovation policies in light of mobile and multi-sited innovation processes

Changing Patterns of Territorial Policy: Smart Specialisation & Innovation in Europe

September/29/2016
Seville, Seville, Spain

Open Creative Labs in Germany

RGS with IGB Annual International Conference 2016 "Nexus Thinking"

August/31/2016
London, London, United Kingdom

2015

Open Region. A Concept for Regional Innovation Policies that creates and utilizes Opportunities for Innovations

10th International Conference on Regional Innovation Policies

October/16/2015
Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

„Open Region“ als Leitbild für eine raumentwicklungsbezogene Innovationspolitik

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2015

October/04/2015
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Memberships

Berlin University of Technology (External organisation)
WIR! – Wandel durch Innovation in der Region (External organisation)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut (External organisation)
Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes (External organisation)
Raumwerk D (Stadt Düsseldorf) (External organisation)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (External organisation)
Humboldt University of Berlin (External organisation)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut (External organisation)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut (External organisation)
Research Group Collaborative Spaces (External organisation)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover. Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography (External organisation)
Joint Spatial Planning Department Berlin-Brandenburg (External organisation)
Staatskanzlei des Landes Brandenburg (External organisation)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover. Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography (External organisation)
Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences (External organisation)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut (External organisation)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut (External organisation)
Karl-Franzens-University of Graz. Institute of Geography and Regional Science (External organisation)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut (External organisation)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (External organisation)
Geographical Society of Berlin (External organisation)