Prof. Dr. Oliver Ibert

In July 2019 Oliver Ibert took over the position of the director of the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and as Professor of Socio-Spatial Transformation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. From 2009-2019 he was Professor of Economic Geography at the Freie Universität Berlin in a joint affiliation with the IRS (where he lead a research department). From 1991 to 1997 he studied Geography (major), German Literature and Political Sciences (both minor) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and obtained his master’s degree in 1997. In 2002 he acquired his PhD in social sciences at the University of Oldenburg and in 2009 he completed his post-doctoral habilitation thesis at faculty of maths and sciences at the University of Bonn.

In summer 2014 Oliver Ibert was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Toronto, in autumn 2018 he was a Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography at Manchester University and in summer 2023 he was an Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) Open Program Fellow an der University of Loughborough. Oliver Ibert is a member of the board of editors of the journal Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning. From 2021 to 2022 Oliver Ibert served as spokesperson of the Leibniz Research Network Spatial Knowledge for Society and Environment (short: Leibniz R). From 2017 to 2020, he acted (together with Rüdiger Graf) as spokesperson for the Crisis Concepts working group within the Leibniz Research Alliance Crises in a Globalized World and from 2018 to 2020 he was a member of the steering group of this research alliance. In 2022 he joined the Editorial Board of the journal Progress in Economic Geography.

Projects

Ongoing Lead Projects

The lead project focalized digital online platforms as well as their relevance for design processes in the fashion industry. Thus, it addressed the question, to what extent creative collaboration can be digitalized. All platforms have in common that they enact specific interfaces between the "concrete" and the "virtual" world, at which human actions are translated into data and vice versa. The lead project analysed how different specialized digital platforms are used in design processes, and which spatial patterns and divisions of labour in creative work emerge in consequence. The advance of digital platforms into a formerly more analogue industry like fashion bears the potential to fundamentally change spatial arrangements of creativity-based value creation, to the benefit or at the expense of established creative centres. more info

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

The research project “Coping With Crises in a Resilient Manner” (RESKIU) deals with the potential for crises to provide solutions, and seeks to explore what can be done by the involved actors not only to mitigate the symptoms of crises, but also to create and use “opportunities” for structural change. The project has a duration of four years and brings together basic and applied research on crises. more info

The DFG-financed interdisciplinary research unit “Organized Creativity” has formed to provide a better understanding of the conditions under which creativity can prosper within social organization. Empirically analyzing an arts-based as well as a science-based field – the musical and the pharmaceutical industry – enables the research units to add to the development of a multi-disciplinary theory of organized creativity. The subproject at the IRS puts the focus on different modes of governance and the connected types of uncertainty in creative pharmaceutical work. more info

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

The ESRa project examines factors that characterize regions with a predominantly positive attitude towards energy system transformation from regions with a negative attitude. The project aims at explaining how these factors can be influenced with regard to the realization of a successful energy transition. The project relates this question to the phenomenon of increasing regional disparities and the drifting apart of regions concerning those that draw advantage from globalization processes and those that do not. The success of an energy system transformation will depend considerably on helping less favorably equipped regions to develop and use such resources and skills.<br/> more info

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

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

2024
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
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2023). Experts in Crisis: The Wide Spectrum of Advisors for Coping with Extreme Events. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 92, [103696]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103696
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
Harmsen, T., & Ibert, O. (2023). Alles Krise, oder was? Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsschärfung und Erfassung heutiger Krisen. In J. Kiess, J. Peukert, M. Seeliger, & J. Steg (Eds.), Krisen und Soziologie (pp. 21). Beltz Juventa.
Harmsen, T., & Ibert, O. (2023). Turbulenzen der globalen Gesellschaft: Erscheinungsformen, Herausforderungen und Chancen heutiger Krisen. Unterricht Wirtschaft und Politik, (1), 2-6. https://www.friedrich-verlag.de/wirtschaft-politik/systeme-ordnungen/turbulenzen-der-globalen-gesellschaft-14464
2022
Ibert, O., & Harmsen, T. (2022). Eingebettete Krisen: Bedrohung und Gelegenheit. Gesundheit und Gesellschaft, 22(3), 7-14. https://www.wido.de/fileadmin/Dateien/Dokumente/Publikationen_Produkte/GGW/2022/wido_ggw_0322_ilbert_harmsen.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., Baumgart, S., Siedentop, S., & Weith, T. (2022). Planning in the Face of Extraordinary Uncertainty: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic. Planning Practice and Research, 37(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2021.1991124
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
Ibert, O., Brinks, V., & Harmsen, T. (2021, Nov 1). Krisen - in Raum und Zeit.
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
Ibert, O. (2021). Ein Plädoyer für ein generisches und ambivalentes Krisenverständnis: Gespräch mit Oliver Ibert. In T. Siurkus, & N. Deitelhoff (Eds.), Crisis Interviews: Eine Publikation des Leibniz-Forschungsverbunds Krisen einer globalisierten Welt (pp. 93-100) https://www.leibniz-krisen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Krisen/Publikationen/Crisis_Interviews.pdf
Ibert, O., Harmsen, T., & Brinks, V. (2021). Gefragt in der Krise: Gut beraten unter Ausnahmebedingungen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/2021/IRS-Policy-Paper_4-2021.pdf
Ibert, O., Jackson, G., Theel, T., & Vogelgsang, L. (2021). Organizing Uncertainty as an Asset in Creative Collaboration: A Comparison of the Musical and Pharmaceutical Industries. Research on the Sociology of Organizations, (75), 115-136. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X20210000075010/full/html
Ibert, O., Harmsen, T., & Brinks, V. (2021). In Demand During a Crisis: Advising Well in Exceptional Circumstances. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. https://leibniz-irs.de/en/media/irs-dialog/in-demand-during-a-crisis-advising-well-in-exceptional-circumstances
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2021). From Omniscient Narrator to Involved Participants: Places and Spaces “Activated” in the EHEC O104:H4 Crisis 2011. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 29(3), 321-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12332
2020
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2020). Zur Räumlichkeit von Krisen: Relationalität, Territorialität, Skalarität und Topologien. In F. Bösch, N. Deitelhoff, & S. Kroll (Eds.), Handbuch Krisenforschung (pp. 41-57). Springer VS.
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2020). Krisenberatung: Sachliche und prozessuale Expertise in Krisen. In F. Bösch, N. Deitelhoff, & S. Kroll (Eds.), Handbuch Krisenforschung (pp. 249-265). Springer VS.
Ibert, O. (2020). Raum und Ort als Konzepte in der Wirtschaftsgeographie. Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde, 93(4), 281-286.
Ibert, O. (2020). Open Region: Gelegenheiten zur Innovation schaffen und nutzen. In C. Kollert, & S. Weidner (Eds.), Städte erforschen und Räume gestalten: Forschung am Institut für Stadtplanung an der BTU Cottbus Senftenberg (pp. 148-151). Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus. http://d-nb.info/1222516705/34
Ibert, O. (2020). Internationale Bauausstellungen als Startpunkte und Durchgangsstationen sozialer Innovationen. In Bundesministerium des Innern (Ed.), IBA im Wandel: Zur Zukunft Internationaler Bauausstellungen (pp. 6-7)
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2020). From Corona Virus to Corona Crisis: The Value of an Analytical and Geographical Understanding of Crisis. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111(3), 275-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12428
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
Hassink, R., Ibert, O., & Sarnow, M. (2020). Zum sich wandelnden Verhältnis von Innovation und Raum in subnationalen Innovationssystemen. In B. Blättel-Mink, & A. Ebner (Eds.), Innovationssysteme: Technologie, Institutionen und die Dynamik der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit (2. Auflage ed., pp. 163-185). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22343-4
Füg, F., & Ibert, O. (2020). Assembling Social Innovations in Emergent Professional Communities: The Case of Learning Region Policies in Germany. European Planning Studies, 28(3), 541-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1639402
Christmann, G., Ibert, O., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2020). Innovations in Spatial Planning as a Social Process – Phases, Actors, Conflicts. European Planning Studies, 28(3), 496-520. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1639399
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
Ibert, O. (2019). Creative Class. In A. M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (Vol. 1, pp. 394-397). Wiley Blackwell.
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
Christmann, G., Kilper, H., & Ibert, O. (2019). Resilient Cities: Theoretical Conceptualisations and Observations about the Discourse in the Social and Planning Sciences. In B. Rampp, M. Endreß, & M. Naumann (Eds.), Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres (pp. 121-148). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15329-8
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
2018
Ibert, O. (2018). Festivalisierung. In H. H. Blotevogel, T. Döring, S. Grotefels, I. Helbrecht, J. Jessen, & C. Schmidt (Eds.), Handwörterbuch der Stadt- und Raumentwicklung (Vol. 1, pp. 661-666). Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung.
Hautala, J., & Ibert, O. (Eds.) (2018). Creativity in Arts and Sciences: Collective Processes from a Spatial Perspective. (Environment and Planning A, Special Issue; Vol. 50, No. 8). SAGE.
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., Christmann, G., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2018). Innovationen in der räumlichen Planung: Zum Wechselverhältnis von inhaltlicher Entfaltung und räumlicher Ausbreitung des Neuen. In N. Gestring, & J. Wehrheim (Eds.), Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert: Eine Fest- und Freundschaftsschrift für Walter Siebel (pp. 294-312). Campus.
Hautala, J., & Ibert, O. (2018). Creativity in Arts and Sciences: Collective Processes from a Spatial Perspective. Environment and Planning A, 50(8), 1688-1696. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18786967
Grabher, G., & Ibert, O. (2018). Schumpeterian Customers? How Active Users Co-create Innovations. In G. Clark, M. Feldman, M. Gertler, & D. Wójcik (Eds.), New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (pp. 286-287). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.013.36
Ibert, O. (2018). A Review of Making Value and Career Building in the Creative Economy. Evidence from Contemporary Visual Art. Springer Briefs in Geography. By Melanie Fasche. Economic Geography, 94(3), 327-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2018.1468717
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
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
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
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
Grabher, G., & Ibert, O. (2017). Knowledge Collaboration in Hybrid Virtual Communities. In H. Bathelt, P. Cohendet, S. Henn, & L. Simon (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation (pp. 537-555). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782548522
Christmann, G., Ibert, O., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2017). How Does Novelty Enter Spatial Planning? Conceptualizing Innovations in Planning and Research Strategies. In W. Rammert, A. Windeler, H. Knoblauch, & M. Hutter (Eds.), Innovation Society Today: Perspectives, Fields, and Cases (pp. 247-272). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19269-3_12
Brinks, V., Ibert, O., & Wendland, A. V. (2017). Beratung unter Stress: Experten in und für Krisen. (Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Krisen einer globalisierten Welt / Working Paper; No. 2). Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Krisen einer globalisierten Welt. https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/fileadmin/user_upload/bilder/Krisen/Working_Papers/LFV_Krisen_einer_globalisierten_Welt_Working_Papers_No_2.pdf
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
Ibert, O. (2017, May 19). Wachstum in Berlin: Berlin hat die Wachstumsphase verschlafen .
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
Christmann, G., Ibert, O., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2016). Wie kommt Neuartiges in die räumliche Planung? Konzeptionierung von Innovationen in der Planung und Forschungsstrategien. In W. Rammert, A. Windeler, H. Knoblauch, & M. Hutter (Eds.), Innovationsgesellschaft heute: Perspektiven, Felder und Fälle (pp. 273-300). Springer VS.
Christmann, G., & Ibert, O. (2016). Eine sozialräumliche Perspektive auf Vulnerabilität und Resilienz: Sozialkonstruktivismus, Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und relationale Raumtheorie im Dialog. In R. Wink (Ed.), Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven der Resilienzforschung (pp. 233-262). (Studien zur Resilienzforschung). Springer. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-09623-6_11
Gailing, L., & Ibert, O. (2016). Schlüsselfiguren: Raum als Gegenstand und Ressource des Wandels. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 74(5), 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13147-016-0426-3
Schmidt, S., Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2016, Nov 1). Open Creative Labs: Typologisierung, Verbreitung und Entwicklungsbedingungen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.
Christmann, G., Kilper, H., & Ibert, O. (2016, Feb). Die resiliente Stadt in den Bereichen Infrastrukturen und Bürgergesellschaft. Freie Universität Berlin. http://www.sicherheit-forschung.de/publikationen/schriftenreihe_neu/sr_v_v/sr_19.pdf
2015
Christmann, G., Grabher, G., Ibert, O., & Kilper, H. (Eds.) (2015). Constructing Resilience, Negotiating Vulnerability. (Social Sciences, Special Issue). http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/constructing-resilience
Ibert, O. (2015). Out of Control? Urban Mega-Projects between Two Types of Rationality: Decision and Action Rationality. In G. Grabher, & J. Thiel (Eds.), Self-Induced Shocks: Mega-Projects and Urban Development (pp. 31-49). (Perspectives in Metropolitan Research; No. 1). Jovis.
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
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
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.
Ibert, O., Christmann, G., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2015). Innovationen in der räumlichen Planung. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, (3), 171-182. http://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/Veroeffentlichungen/IzR/2015/3/Inhalt/DL_Leseprobe.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
Ibert, O., Hautala, J., & Jauhiainen, J. (2015). From Cluster to Process: New Economic Geographic Perspectives on Practices of Knowledge Creation. Geoforum, Special Issue, 65, 323-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.023
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2015). Mushrooming Entrepreneurship: The Dynamic Geography of Enthusiast-Driven Innovation. Geoforum, 65, 363-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.01.007
2014
Ibert, O., Müller, F. C., & Stein, A. (2014). Produktive Differenzen: Eine dynamische Netzwerkanalyse von Innovationsprozessen. (Science Studies). Transcript.
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
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.
Grabher, G., & Ibert, O. (2014). Distance as Asset? Knowledge Collaboration in Hybrid Virtual Communities. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(1), 97-123. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt014
Ibert, O. (2014). Organizing Relational Distance: Innovation as the Management of Sociocultural and Time-Spatial Tensions. In A. B. Antal, P. Meusburger, & L. Suarsana (Eds.), Learning Organizations: Extending the Field (pp. 85-102). (Knowledge and Space; No. 6). Springer.
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
2012
Christmann, G., & Ibert, O. (2012). Vulnerability and Resilience in a Socio-Spatial Perspective: A Social-Scientific Approach. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 70(4), 259-272.
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.
Christmann, G., Ibert, O., Kilper, H., Moss, T., Balgar, K., Hüesker, F., Kühn, M., Pflanz, K., Schmidt, T., Sommer, H., Sondershaus, F., & Thurmann, T. (2012). Vulnerability and Resilience from a Socio-Spatial Perspective: Towards a Theoretical Framework. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 45). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1025199685/34
2011
Christmann, G. B., Ibert, O., Kilper, H., Moss, T., Balger, K., Hüesker, F., Kühn, M., Pflanz, K., Schmidt, T., Sommer, H., Sondershaus, F., & Thurmann, T. (2011). Vulnerabilität und Resilienz in sozio-räumlicher Perspektive: Begriffliche Klärungen und theoretischer Rahmen. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 44). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1025199863/34

Selected Publications by Type

Monograph
Ibert, O., Müller, F. C., & Stein, A. (2014). Produktive Differenzen: Eine dynamische Netzwerkanalyse von Innovationsprozessen. (Science Studies). Transcript.
Journal Issue / Special Issue
Hautala, J., & Ibert, O. (Eds.) (2018). Creativity in Arts and Sciences: Collective Processes from a Spatial Perspective. (Environment and Planning A, Special Issue; Vol. 50, No. 8). SAGE.
Christmann, G., Grabher, G., Ibert, O., & Kilper, H. (Eds.) (2015). Constructing Resilience, Negotiating Vulnerability. (Social Sciences, Special Issue). http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/constructing-resilience
Journal Article
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
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2023). Experts in Crisis: The Wide Spectrum of Advisors for Coping with Extreme Events. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 92, [103696]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103696
Harmsen, T., & Ibert, O. (2023). Turbulenzen der globalen Gesellschaft: Erscheinungsformen, Herausforderungen und Chancen heutiger Krisen. Unterricht Wirtschaft und Politik, (1), 2-6. https://www.friedrich-verlag.de/wirtschaft-politik/systeme-ordnungen/turbulenzen-der-globalen-gesellschaft-14464
Ibert, O., & Harmsen, T. (2022). Eingebettete Krisen: Bedrohung und Gelegenheit. Gesundheit und Gesellschaft, 22(3), 7-14. https://www.wido.de/fileadmin/Dateien/Dokumente/Publikationen_Produkte/GGW/2022/wido_ggw_0322_ilbert_harmsen.pdf
Ibert, O., Baumgart, S., Siedentop, S., & Weith, T. (2022). Planning in the Face of Extraordinary Uncertainty: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic. Planning Practice and Research, 37(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2021.1991124
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
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
Ibert, O., Jackson, G., Theel, T., & Vogelgsang, L. (2021). Organizing Uncertainty as an Asset in Creative Collaboration: A Comparison of the Musical and Pharmaceutical Industries. Research on the Sociology of Organizations, (75), 115-136. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X20210000075010/full/html
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2021). From Omniscient Narrator to Involved Participants: Places and Spaces “Activated” in the EHEC O104:H4 Crisis 2011. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 29(3), 321-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12332
Ibert, O. (2020). Raum und Ort als Konzepte in der Wirtschaftsgeographie. Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde, 93(4), 281-286.
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2020). From Corona Virus to Corona Crisis: The Value of an Analytical and Geographical Understanding of Crisis. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111(3), 275-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12428
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
Füg, F., & Ibert, O. (2020). Assembling Social Innovations in Emergent Professional Communities: The Case of Learning Region Policies in Germany. European Planning Studies, 28(3), 541-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1639402
Christmann, G., Ibert, O., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2020). Innovations in Spatial Planning as a Social Process – Phases, Actors, Conflicts. European Planning Studies, 28(3), 496-520. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1639399
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
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
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
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/
Gailing, L., & Ibert, O. (2016). Schlüsselfiguren: Raum als Gegenstand und Ressource des Wandels. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 74(5), 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13147-016-0426-3
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
Ibert, O., Christmann, G., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2015). Innovationen in der räumlichen Planung. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, (3), 171-182. http://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/Veroeffentlichungen/IzR/2015/3/Inhalt/DL_Leseprobe.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
Ibert, O., Hautala, J., & Jauhiainen, J. (2015). From Cluster to Process: New Economic Geographic Perspectives on Practices of Knowledge Creation. Geoforum, Special Issue, 65, 323-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.023
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2015). Mushrooming Entrepreneurship: The Dynamic Geography of Enthusiast-Driven Innovation. Geoforum, 65, 363-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.01.007
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
Grabher, G., & Ibert, O. (2014). Distance as Asset? Knowledge Collaboration in Hybrid Virtual Communities. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(1), 97-123. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt014
Christmann, G., & Ibert, O. (2012). Vulnerability and Resilience in a Socio-Spatial Perspective: A Social-Scientific Approach. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 70(4), 259-272.
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
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
Harmsen, T., & Ibert, O. (2023). Alles Krise, oder was? Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsschärfung und Erfassung heutiger Krisen. In J. Kiess, J. Peukert, M. Seeliger, & J. Steg (Eds.), Krisen und Soziologie (pp. 21). Beltz Juventa.
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2020). Zur Räumlichkeit von Krisen: Relationalität, Territorialität, Skalarität und Topologien. In F. Bösch, N. Deitelhoff, & S. Kroll (Eds.), Handbuch Krisenforschung (pp. 41-57). Springer VS.
Brinks, V., & Ibert, O. (2020). Krisenberatung: Sachliche und prozessuale Expertise in Krisen. In F. Bösch, N. Deitelhoff, & S. Kroll (Eds.), Handbuch Krisenforschung (pp. 249-265). Springer VS.
Hassink, R., Ibert, O., & Sarnow, M. (2020). Zum sich wandelnden Verhältnis von Innovation und Raum in subnationalen Innovationssystemen. In B. Blättel-Mink, & A. Ebner (Eds.), Innovationssysteme: Technologie, Institutionen und die Dynamik der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit (2. Auflage ed., pp. 163-185). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22343-4
Ibert, O. (2019). Creative Class. In A. M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (Vol. 1, pp. 394-397). Wiley Blackwell.
Christmann, G., Kilper, H., & Ibert, O. (2019). Resilient Cities: Theoretical Conceptualisations and Observations about the Discourse in the Social and Planning Sciences. In B. Rampp, M. Endreß, & M. Naumann (Eds.), Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres (pp. 121-148). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15329-8
Ibert, O. (2018). Festivalisierung. In H. H. Blotevogel, T. Döring, S. Grotefels, I. Helbrecht, J. Jessen, & C. Schmidt (Eds.), Handwörterbuch der Stadt- und Raumentwicklung (Vol. 1, pp. 661-666). Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung.
Ibert, O., Christmann, G., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2018). Innovationen in der räumlichen Planung: Zum Wechselverhältnis von inhaltlicher Entfaltung und räumlicher Ausbreitung des Neuen. In N. Gestring, & J. Wehrheim (Eds.), Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert: Eine Fest- und Freundschaftsschrift für Walter Siebel (pp. 294-312). Campus.
Grabher, G., & Ibert, O. (2018). Schumpeterian Customers? How Active Users Co-create Innovations. In G. Clark, M. Feldman, M. Gertler, & D. Wójcik (Eds.), New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (pp. 286-287). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.013.36
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.
Grabher, G., & Ibert, O. (2017). Knowledge Collaboration in Hybrid Virtual Communities. In H. Bathelt, P. Cohendet, S. Henn, & L. Simon (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation (pp. 537-555). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782548522
Christmann, G., Ibert, O., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2017). How Does Novelty Enter Spatial Planning? Conceptualizing Innovations in Planning and Research Strategies. In W. Rammert, A. Windeler, H. Knoblauch, & M. Hutter (Eds.), Innovation Society Today: Perspectives, Fields, and Cases (pp. 247-272). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19269-3_12
Christmann, G., Ibert, O., Jessen, J., & Walther, U-J. (2016). Wie kommt Neuartiges in die räumliche Planung? Konzeptionierung von Innovationen in der Planung und Forschungsstrategien. In W. Rammert, A. Windeler, H. Knoblauch, & M. Hutter (Eds.), Innovationsgesellschaft heute: Perspektiven, Felder und Fälle (pp. 273-300). Springer VS.
Christmann, G., & Ibert, O. (2016). Eine sozialräumliche Perspektive auf Vulnerabilität und Resilienz: Sozialkonstruktivismus, Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und relationale Raumtheorie im Dialog. In R. Wink (Ed.), Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven der Resilienzforschung (pp. 233-262). (Studien zur Resilienzforschung). Springer. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-09623-6_11
Ibert, O. (2015). Out of Control? Urban Mega-Projects between Two Types of Rationality: Decision and Action Rationality. In G. Grabher, & J. Thiel (Eds.), Self-Induced Shocks: Mega-Projects and Urban Development (pp. 31-49). (Perspectives in Metropolitan Research; No. 1). Jovis.
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.
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.
Ibert, O. (2014). Organizing Relational Distance: Innovation as the Management of Sociocultural and Time-Spatial Tensions. In A. B. Antal, P. Meusburger, & L. Suarsana (Eds.), Learning Organizations: Extending the Field (pp. 85-102). (Knowledge and Space; No. 6). Springer.
Contribution to Forum or Blog
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. (2017, May 19). Wachstum in Berlin: Berlin hat die Wachstumsphase verschlafen .
Editorial in Journal
Hautala, J., & Ibert, O. (2018). Creativity in Arts and Sciences: Collective Processes from a Spatial Perspective. Environment and Planning A, 50(8), 1688-1696. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18786967
Expertise / Position Paper / Policy Paper
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., Harmsen, T., & Brinks, V. (2021). Gefragt in der Krise: Gut beraten unter Ausnahmebedingungen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/2021/IRS-Policy-Paper_4-2021.pdf
Ibert, O., Harmsen, T., & Brinks, V. (2021). In Demand During a Crisis: Advising Well in Exceptional Circumstances. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. https://leibniz-irs.de/en/media/irs-dialog/in-demand-during-a-crisis-advising-well-in-exceptional-circumstances
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
Schmidt, S., Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2016, Nov 1). Open Creative Labs: Typologisierung, Verbreitung und Entwicklungsbedingungen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.
Christmann, G., Kilper, H., & Ibert, O. (2016, Feb). Die resiliente Stadt in den Bereichen Infrastrukturen und Bürgergesellschaft. Freie Universität Berlin. http://www.sicherheit-forschung.de/publikationen/schriftenreihe_neu/sr_v_v/sr_19.pdf
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 Contribution to Book
Ibert, O. (2021). Ein Plädoyer für ein generisches und ambivalentes Krisenverständnis: Gespräch mit Oliver Ibert. In T. Siurkus, & N. Deitelhoff (Eds.), Crisis Interviews: Eine Publikation des Leibniz-Forschungsverbunds Krisen einer globalisierten Welt (pp. 93-100) https://www.leibniz-krisen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Krisen/Publikationen/Crisis_Interviews.pdf
Ibert, O. (2020). Open Region: Gelegenheiten zur Innovation schaffen und nutzen. In C. Kollert, & S. Weidner (Eds.), Städte erforschen und Räume gestalten: Forschung am Institut für Stadtplanung an der BTU Cottbus Senftenberg (pp. 148-151). Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus. http://d-nb.info/1222516705/34
Ibert, O. (2020). Internationale Bauausstellungen als Startpunkte und Durchgangsstationen sozialer Innovationen. In Bundesministerium des Innern (Ed.), IBA im Wandel: Zur Zukunft Internationaler Bauausstellungen (pp. 6-7)
Publication (Science Communication)
Ibert, O., Brinks, V., & Harmsen, T. (2021, Nov 1). Krisen - in Raum und Zeit.
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
Ibert, O. (2018). A Review of Making Value and Career Building in the Creative Economy. Evidence from Contemporary Visual Art. Springer Briefs in Geography. By Melanie Fasche. Economic Geography, 94(3), 327-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2018.1468717
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
Brinks, V., Ibert, O., & Wendland, A. V. (2017). Beratung unter Stress: Experten in und für Krisen. (Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Krisen einer globalisierten Welt / Working Paper; No. 2). Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Krisen einer globalisierten Welt. https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/fileadmin/user_upload/bilder/Krisen/Working_Papers/LFV_Krisen_einer_globalisierten_Welt_Working_Papers_No_2.pdf
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
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
Christmann, G., Ibert, O., Kilper, H., Moss, T., Balgar, K., Hüesker, F., Kühn, M., Pflanz, K., Schmidt, T., Sommer, H., Sondershaus, F., & Thurmann, T. (2012). Vulnerability and Resilience from a Socio-Spatial Perspective: Towards a Theoretical Framework. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 45). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1025199685/34
Christmann, G. B., Ibert, O., Kilper, H., Moss, T., Balger, K., Hüesker, F., Kühn, M., Pflanz, K., Schmidt, T., Sommer, H., Sondershaus, F., & Thurmann, T. (2011). Vulnerabilität und Resilienz in sozio-räumlicher Perspektive: Begriffliche Klärungen und theoretischer Rahmen. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 44). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1025199863/34

Talks

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

Placing Knowledge Regions in Processes of Transformation. Initial Points, Transit Stations and Receiving Ends

Transformative Knowledge Regions

October/26/2023
Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Planung im Angesicht fundamentaler Unsicherheit

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023

September/22/2023
Goethe-Universität , Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Disruption. Wenn Zukunftserwartungen zusammenbrechen

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023

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

De-fashioning fashion - a paradox task

De-Fashioning Education:

September/16/2023
Berlin University of Fine Arts, Concert Hall, Hardenbergstraße, Berlin, Germany

Die Krise als Ausnahmesituation: Kurzfristiger Schock mit langfristiger Wirkung?

Normalität

September/14/2023
Universität Jena, Jena, Germany

On/offline spaces in creative processes

RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2023

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

Research at the Leibniz Institut for Research on Society and Space: The research program „Disruption – Critical Moments in Socio-Spatial Transformation“

Institute of Advanced Studies Workshop

June/07/2023
Loughborough Unniversity , Loughborough, United Kingdom

Platform ecology: Placing digital platforms in creative processes

IAS Research Seminar

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

Was macht Beratung in Krisen – und welche Macht hat Krise auf Beratung

May/17/2023

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

Practicing Interdisciplinarity: Reflections on the Trading Zones between Spatial Research and Social Sciences

Conceiving Cities - Understanding Interdisciplinarity

February/14/2023
HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2022
Zur Dualität von Innovation und Resilienz in der Raumentwicklung

Forschungsplanung 2022 | Expertenworkshop FF 1

August/30/2022
Handelshaus Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Emerging from Emergencies Crisis as Driver of Change in Organizational Fields

6th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2022

June/07/2022
Trinity College und University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Zukunftserwartungen in der Planung – Post-Covid

May/18/2022

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

Nachgefragt in der Krise. Gut beraten unter Ausnahmenbedingungen

Interner Online Workshop des Leibniz Forschungsnetzwerks "Environmental Crises - Crisis Environments"

October/29/2021
Virtuell

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

Demand for Expertise in Crisis: Giving Advice under Extra-ordinary Circumstances

Emerging from Emergencies

July/01/2021
Virtuell, Erkner, Germany

Introduction: Spaces of Crisis

IRS Spring Academy 2021. Investigating Spaces: Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches - Part 4: Space of Crisis

May/18/2021
virtuell, Erkner, Germany

Crisis as Catalyst of Institutional Innovation? Trajectories of Learning in Crisis-ridden Fields of Porcelain Manufacturing, Maritime Emergencies and Refugee Migration

Workshop on Innovation & Institutional Change

April/21/2021
Virtuell (University of Utrecht), Utrecht, Netherlands

Emerging from Emergencies - Neues aus der Krise

Krisenumwelten (im Rahmen des Leibniz-Forschungsverbundes "Krisen einer globalisierten Welt")

March/26/2021
online

2020
Die Natur in der Krise? Natürliche Prozesse und Gesellschaftliche Diagnosen

Schlägt die Natur zurück?

December/10/2020
Virtueller Workshop , Germany

Experts in crisis: The diversity of advisors for coping with extreme events

36th European Group of Organisation Studies Colloquium (EGOS)

July/03/2020
Hamburg/virtuell , Germany

2019
Edge - Creating and Valuing Novelty at the Margins

Edge - Creating and Valuing Novelty at the Margins

November/21/2019
Representation of the Federal State Hamburg, Berlin, Germany

Die Verstetigung des Krisenmodus

Crisis Talk

November/13/2019
Landesvertretung Hessen, Brüssel, Belgium

Resilienz aus sozialwissenschaftlicher und historischer PerspektiveChancen und Herausforderungen

Resilienz. Gesellschaftliche Umbruchphasen im Dialog zwischen Mediävistik und Soziologie

October/28/2019
Universität Trier, Trier, Germany

Krisen als raum-zeitliche Gelegenheitsstrukturen – eine geographisch informierte Konzeptionalisierung

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019

September/30/2019
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Raum und Ort als Konzepte in der Wirtschaftsgeographie

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019

September/27/2019
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Ostdeutschland – eine problematische Territorialisierung

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019

September/26/2019
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Open Creative Labs as Drivers of Urban Development: Innovation, Adaptability and Complementary Workplaces

4th Conference Cultural and Creative Industries

March/29/2019
Thessaloniki Music Hall, Thessaloniki, Greece

Moving Backwards and Forwards in Time: Why Uncertainty Matters in Time-Spatial Analyses of Creativity

1. International Conference Re-Figuration of Spaces of the SFB 1265

February/22/2019
TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2018
Resilient Ways of Dealing with Crises: Conceptual Thoughts and First Empirical Illustrations

Social Constructions of Resiliencies. Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Analyses.

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

Open Creative Labs: Anchors of Career Resilience in the Urban Context

October/31/2018

Studying GPNs Through the Lens of Dissociations: Symbolic Value and the Restructuring of the Global Fur-Fashion Complex

October/17/2018

Practices of Harnessing Uncertainty for Creativity: Evidence from Music and Pharma Development

5th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018

July/24/2018
Köln, Germany

Seed Accelerators as Local Anchors in Trans-Local Communities: Challenging the Territorial Boundaries of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

34th European Group of Organization Studies Colloquium (EGOS)

July/05/2018
Tallinn, Estonia

Geographies of Dissociation: The Social Construction of Values from a Spatial Perspective – The Case of the Global Fur Industry

Thursday Talks, Department of Geography and Geology

March/29/2018
Turku, Turku, Finland

Open Region: Creating and Exploiting Opportunities for Innovation at the Regional Scale

Colloquium of the Department of Geography and Geology

March/28/2018
Turku, Turku, Finland

Input to the Final Discussion: Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social Resilience. A Dialogue between Medieval Studies and Sociology

Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social Resilience. A Dialogue between Medieval Studies and Sociology

March/15/2018
Trier, Trier, Germany

Resilienter Krisenumgang: Die Rolle von Beratung bei der Schaffung und Nutzung von "Gelegenheiten" in Krisenverläufen

Workshop Experten in Krisen

February/16/2018
Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung, Erkner, Germany

Seed Accelerators as Local Anchors in Trans-Local Communities: Challenging the Territorial Boundaries of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

4th Geography of Innovation Conference

February/01/2018
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2017
Geographien der Dissoziation: Nicht-thematisierte Räume bei der Konstruktion ökonomischer Werte in der Pelzindustrie

Geographisches Kolloquium

November/28/2017
Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

The Unfolding and Spreading of Novel Ideas: Insights from Social Innovations in the Field of Spatial Planning

International Summer School "Social Innovation in Urban and Regional Development"

September/02/2017
Wien, Wien, Austria

Geographies of Dissociation

Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers 2017

April/08/2017
Boston, Boston, United States

2016
Geographies of dissociation: Towards a research agenda

Workshop "(Inter-)disciplinary perspectives on practices of valuation"

November/25/2016
Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

From ignorance to innovation: Serendipitous and purposeful search in creative processes

Research Seminar Innovation and Organizational Learning

November/09/2016
London, London, United Kingdom

Innovationen in der räumlichen Planung als sozialer Prozess

Workshop „Innovationen im Planungssystem“

November/07/2016
Erkner, Erkner, Germany

Reflecting on five years of CCE

5th European Colloqium on Culture, Creativity and Economy

October/07/2016
Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

Open Creative Labs in Germany: Typology and Spatial Distribution

RGS with IGB Annual International Conference 2016 "Nexus Thinking"

August/31/2016
London, London, United Kingdom

Multiple ways from ignorance to innovation: Serendipitous and purposeful mobility in creative processes

32nd EGOS Colloquium

July/07/2016
Naples, Naples, Italy

Concepts and Phases of Social Innovations in Spatial Planning

Innovations in Spatial Planning. Towards the Emergence and Mobility of Novel Approaches in Urban and Regional Planning

February/25/2016
Erkner, Erkner, Germany

2015
Open Creative Labs in Deutschland

ITAFORUM 2015

November/19/2015
Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2014
Was sind Netzwerke und wie wirkt Raum in Netzwerken?

Regionalgespräch "Die Netzwerke der Raumentwicklung. Was weiß die Wissenschaft – was können wir aus der Praxis lernen?"

May/28/2014
Erkner, Erkner, Germany

Memberships

  • German Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (External organisation)

  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Deutschland) (External organisation)

  • Berlin University of the Arts (External organisation)

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February/14/2024

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Prof. Dr. Oliver Ibert in the Media

Leibniz-Institut in Erkner 15 Millionen für Sanierung
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Leibniz-Institut in Erkner 15 Millionen für Sanierung
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Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Arjen Boin (Leiden University)

The nation state is discovering the limits of its crisis management capacities. COVID-19 is only the latest manifestation of a transboundary crisis testing the nation state’s capacity to protect its citizens from external threats. The Ebola and Zika outbreaks, the financial crisis, the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, sinking ships overfilled with refugees, cyber-attacks, urban terrorism and existential environmental threats serve as additional, strong reminders of the complex origins and transboundary dimensions of many contemporary crises and disasters. As these transboundary aspects of modern crises become increasingly manifest, the need for international, collaborative responses appears ever clearer. But that collaboration does not always emerge in time (or at all). Even in the European Union, which has various transboundary crisis management mechanisms in place, the willingness to initiate joint crisis responses varies. Why do states elect to collaborate in response to some transboundary crises but not others? In this keynote speech, Arjen Boin identifies crucial factors that shape critical pathways towards a joint response.