Dr. Andreas Kuebart
Research Associate | Economy and Civil Society

Dr. Andreas Kuebart is a research associate in the Research Area “Economy and Civil Society” since 2015 and a post-doc fellow at the chair for Socio-Spatial Transformation at the Brandenburg University of Technology since 2019. His research interests are situated between the disciplinary boundaries of human- and economic geography and focus on the geographies of socio-spatial processes in context of the digital economy and society.

Thematically, his research involves topics related to the financial geographies of entrepreneurial ecosystems, and more generally to issues of regional development as well as health geography. Methodically, he has been involved in qualitative case studies and especially applies the techniques of spatial data science in his work.

Kuebart studied Geography at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Florida (Gainesville), Stockholm University and Bonn University. In January 2020, he graduated as Dr. rer. nat. from Free University of Berlin. For his dissertation project he researched the geographies of knowledge in the context of entrepreneurial ecosystem with case studies on seed accelerators in the US and Germany. Since 2020, Andreas Kuebart focuses his research activities on the spatial diffusion of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Arguably unlike any other pandemic before, COVID-19 has been monitored and mapped in detail, enabling fine-grained analysis. So far, the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic followed a non-linear trajectory known from previous pandemics with a wave pattern implying phases of acceleration and deceleration. This research project starts from the premise, that there is unused potential in using tempo-spatial data to understand pandemic outbreaks. It aims to analyze the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany through a process perspective to detect spatio-temporal patterns of diffusion. more info

Ongoing Cross-departmental Projects

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

Selected Publications by Year

2023
Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2023). Waves in Time, but not in Space: An Analysis of Pandemic Severity of COVID-19 in Germany based on Spatio-temporal Clustering. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 47, [100605]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2023.100605
Kuebart, A. (2023, Jul 5). Open Startup Ecosystem & Sustainable Growth - Startup Heatmap Europe 2023.
Stabler, M., & Kuebart, A. (2023). Tempo-spatial Dynamics of COVID-19 in Germany: A Phase Model Based on a Pandemic Severity Indicator. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.17.23286084
2022
Santini, E., Forrer, V., Kuebart, A., & Kösters, T. (2022, Jun 20). Open Startup Regions & Sustainable Growth: Startup Heatmap Europe Report 2022. https://startupheatmap.eu/
Kuebart, A. (2022). Open Creative Labs as Functional Infrastructure for Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Using Sequence Analysis to Explore Tempo-spatial Trajectories of Startups in Berlin. Research Policy, 51(9), [104444]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104444
2021
Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2021). Risikoprozesse statt Risikogebiete - Raumdimensionen der COVID-19-Pandemie in Deutschland. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, 48(2), 40-49. https://elibrary.steiner-verlag.de/article/99.105010/izr202102004001
2020
Kuebart, A. (2020). Infektionsnetzwerke und Infektionsorte – Super-spreading-Ereignisse in der Epidemie. In C. Stegbauer, & I. Clemens (Eds.), Corona-Netzwerke – Gesellschaft im Zeichen des Virus (pp. 35-44). Springer.
Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2020). Infectious Diseases as Socio‐Spatial Processes: The COVID‐19 Outbreak in Germany. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111(3), 482-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12429
Kuebart, A., & Ibert, O. (2020). Choreographies of Entrepreneurship: How Different Formats of Co-Presence are Combined to Facilitate Knowledge Creation in Seed Accelerator Programs. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 78(1), 35-51. https://doi.org/10.2478/rara-2019-0047
2019
Kuebart, A., & Ibert, O. (2019). Beyond Territorial Conceptions of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Dynamic Spatiality of Knowledge Brokering in Seed Accelerators. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 63(2-4), 118–133. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2018-0012
Kuebart, A. (2019). Geographies of Relational Coordination in Venture Capital Firms. European Planning Studies, 27(11), 2206-2226. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1620696
2018
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.
Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Brewig, S. (2018). Shearmur Richard, Carrincazeaux Christophe and Doloreux David (Eds): Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2016), pp. 512. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 62(1), 82-85. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2017-0027
Ibert, O., Schmidt, S., Brinks, V., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2018). Open Creative Labs in Deutschland: Typologisierung, Verbreitung, Entwicklungsbedingungen und politische Gestaltung.
2017
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/
2016
Kuebart, A. (2016). Berlin as an emerging venture capital ecosystem. Poster session presented at Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Berlin, Germany. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283856662_Berlin_as_an_emerging_venture_capital_ecosystem
Schmidt, S., Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2016, Nov 1). Open Creative Labs: Typologisierung, Verbreitung und Entwicklungsbedingungen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.

Selected Publications by Type

Journal Article
Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2023). Waves in Time, but not in Space: An Analysis of Pandemic Severity of COVID-19 in Germany based on Spatio-temporal Clustering. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 47, [100605]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2023.100605
Kuebart, A. (2022). Open Creative Labs as Functional Infrastructure for Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Using Sequence Analysis to Explore Tempo-spatial Trajectories of Startups in Berlin. Research Policy, 51(9), [104444]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104444
Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2021). Risikoprozesse statt Risikogebiete - Raumdimensionen der COVID-19-Pandemie in Deutschland. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, 48(2), 40-49. https://elibrary.steiner-verlag.de/article/99.105010/izr202102004001
Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2020). Infectious Diseases as Socio‐Spatial Processes: The COVID‐19 Outbreak in Germany. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111(3), 482-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12429
Kuebart, A., & Ibert, O. (2020). Choreographies of Entrepreneurship: How Different Formats of Co-Presence are Combined to Facilitate Knowledge Creation in Seed Accelerator Programs. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 78(1), 35-51. https://doi.org/10.2478/rara-2019-0047
Kuebart, A., & Ibert, O. (2019). Beyond Territorial Conceptions of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Dynamic Spatiality of Knowledge Brokering in Seed Accelerators. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 63(2-4), 118–133. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2018-0012
Kuebart, A. (2019). Geographies of Relational Coordination in Venture Capital Firms. European Planning Studies, 27(11), 2206-2226. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1620696
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/
Contribution to Anthology
Kuebart, A. (2020). Infektionsnetzwerke und Infektionsorte – Super-spreading-Ereignisse in der Epidemie. In C. Stegbauer, & I. Clemens (Eds.), Corona-Netzwerke – Gesellschaft im Zeichen des Virus (pp. 35-44). Springer.
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.
Expertise / Position Paper / Policy Paper
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.
Other transfer publication
Kuebart, A. (2023, Jul 5). Open Startup Ecosystem & Sustainable Growth - Startup Heatmap Europe 2023.
Santini, E., Forrer, V., Kuebart, A., & Kösters, T. (2022, Jun 20). Open Startup Regions & Sustainable Growth: Startup Heatmap Europe Report 2022. https://startupheatmap.eu/
Poster
Kuebart, A. (2016). Berlin as an emerging venture capital ecosystem. Poster session presented at Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Berlin, Germany. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283856662_Berlin_as_an_emerging_venture_capital_ecosystem
Review in Journal
Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Brewig, S. (2018). Shearmur Richard, Carrincazeaux Christophe and Doloreux David (Eds): Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2016), pp. 512. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 62(1), 82-85. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2017-0027
Working Paper, Discussion Paper
Stabler, M., & Kuebart, A. (2023). Tempo-spatial Dynamics of COVID-19 in Germany: A Phase Model Based on a Pandemic Severity Indicator. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.17.23286084

Talks

2023
No islands of entrepreneurship – Mapping the pipelines between entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe through accelerator participation

Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2023

June/15/2023
Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

CODIFF - Spatial Diffusion of COVID 19 in Germany

May/30/2023

CODIFF - Spatial Diffusion of COVID 19 in Germany

May/17/2023

Moving in and around: A spatio‐temporal analysis of startup trajectories in theBerlin entrepreneurial ecosystem using spatial data science

16. Rauischholzhausener Symposium zur Wirtschaftsgeographie

April/28/2023
Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Rauischholzhausen, Germany

2022
Pandemische Geographien: COVID-19 als Sozio-räumlicher Infektionsprozess

Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Medizinische Geographie und Geographische Gesundheitsforschung

September/24/2022

Socio-Spatial Diffusion of COVID-19 in Germany

19th International Medical Geography Symposium

June/24/2022
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Tempo-Spatial Processes: Using Spatial Data Science and Sequence Analysis to Explore the Geographies of Startups in Berlin

6th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2022

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

Socio-spatial Diffusion of COVID 19 in Germany

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2022 (AAG)

February/27/2022
digital , United States

2021
Socio-spatial Diffusion of COVID-19 in Germany

DFG Research Conference Pandemics

November/15/2021
Online

Open Creative Labs as Providers of Core Functions Within Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Using Sequence Analysis to Explore New Infrastructures for Startup Processes in Berlin

AAG Annual Meeting 2021

April/09/2021
Seattle, Seattle, United States

2019
Anchoring Ecosystems – Open Creative Labs as Focal Places for Entrepreneurial Processes

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019

September/25/2019
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Ressourcescapes

Temporal Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

July/02/2019
Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany

Social Risk Capital – ​Geographies of Seed Accelerators​

15. Rauischholzhausener Symposium zur Wirtschaftsgeographie

April/26/2019
Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Rauischholzhausen, Germany

Temporal Anchors – Focal Places for Startup Processes in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems​

AAG Annual Meeting 2019

April/06/2019
Washington, DC, Washington, D.C., United States

Anchoring Ecosystems – Open Creative Labs as Focal Places for Entrepreneurial Processes

Gemeinsames Kolloquium IRS-Humboldt Universität Wirtschaftsgeographie

February/19/2019
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut, Berlin, Germany

2018
Anchoring Ecosystems – Open Creative Labs als Schnittstellen in Gründungsprozessen

Jahrestagung des AK Industriegeographie 2018

October/17/2018
Naurod-Niedernhausen, Germany

Anchoring Ecosystems – Open Creative Labs as Focal Places for Entrepreneurial Processes​

5th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018

July/25/2018
Köln, Germany

Towards a Spatio-Temporal Perspective on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Seed Accelerators as local Anchors of Trans-Local Entrepreneurial Processes.

AAG Annual Meeting 2018

April/12/2018
New Orleans, United States

2017
Social Risk Capital: Seed Accelerators as Local Anchors in Trans‐Locally Shared Practices

Fingeo Lab 2017

November/08/2017
Frankfurt (Main), Frankfurt (Main), Germany

Places of Self-Programmable Labor: Open Creative Labs as Settings for Work in the Information Age

EGEA Scientific Conference

June/17/2017
Girona, Girona, Spain

Anchored Where? Examining Locational Characteristics of Open Creative Labs.

Summer School for Advanced Economic Geography

June/04/2017
L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Temporary Places: How Seed Accelerators Configure Future Trajectories of Organizational Development

AAG 2017

April/07/2017
Boston, MA, Boston, MA, United States

2015
Investing in proximity? – changing business models in the German venture capital industry

Global Conference on Economic Geography

August/21/2015
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

News
April/19/2023

The intensive interactions of digitalisation and spatial development are the focus of the Spatial Science Colloquium 2023 (SSC2023), an event hosted by the Leibniz Research Network “Spatial Knowledge for Society and Environment – Leibniz R”. For the first time, the SSC will take place on two days: 4 July is an online event aimed at an international scientific audience. Day 2 on 5 July will be a face-to-face event in Berlin dedicated to the application-oriented exchange between science, politics and practice. Registration for the event is now open. more info