CV – Tom Brökel

Education

2020 Appointment as Professor in Regional Innovation, University of Stavanger (UiS) Business School, Stavanger, Norway
2019 Seniorkwalificatie onderzoek (SKO), Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University
2018 Seniorkwalificatie onderwijs (SKO), Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University
2015 Habilitation in Economic Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
2008 Ph.D. in Economics, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
2004 Diplom-Volkswirt (M.A. in Economics), Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
1998 High school-leaving examination (Abitur), Friderico Francisceum, Bad Doberan, Germany

Work Experience

2020 Professor, University of Stavanger (UiS) Business School, Stavanger, Norway
2019 Associate Professor, University of Stavanger (UiS) Business School, Stavanger, Norway
2017-2019 Associate Professor, Department of Spatial Planning and Human Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, University Utrecht, The Netherlands
2011-2016 Juniorprofessor for Empirical Economic Geography, Institute for Economic and Cultural Geography, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
2008-2011 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Section of Economic Geography, Faculty of Geociences, University Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
2004-2007 Research Fellow, Evolutionary Economics Group, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany

Professional activities

Since 03/2022: Member of the editorial team REGION
04/2018-07/2019: Co-editor of working paper series: Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG)
10/2015-12/2016: Member of examination board bachelor’s program Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
07/2015: Member of Committee for Evolutionary Economics, Verein für Socialpolitik (Social Policy Association), Germany
10/2014-9/2017: Member of working group Universities and sustainable regional development, Academy of spatial science and planning (ARL), Germany
10/2014 -02/2015, Member of appointment committee professor of Cultural Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover
11/2014: Co-organizer of workshop The evolution of networks, industries and clusters (ENIC), Leibniz University of Hannover and Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany
Since 09/2014: Member of research initiative TRUST, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
07/2014-12/2016: Member of research initiative FI:GEO, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
04/2013-01/2014: Member of scientific committee for the conference: Geography of Innovation, Utrecht, January, 23.-25. 2014
06/2013-06/2015: Member of strategic advisory board, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
10/2012-12/2016: Coordinator of minor subject Economic Geography for Economists, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
10/2011-12/2016: Admission committee masters’ program Economic Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
10/2011-12/2016: Head of examination board masters’s program Economic Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
10/2011-12/2016: Coordinator of master’s program Economic Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Since 04/2011: Co-editor of Working Papers on Innovation and Space, Philipps University of Marburg, Faculty of Geography

Research Interests

Economic geography
Innovation economics
Effects and development of knowledge networks
Measurement of innovation performance
Efficiency and productivity analysis
Social network analysis

Reviewer

Annals of Regional Science
Applied Economics
Bulletin of Economic Research
Bulletin of Geography
DRUID Summer conference
Economic Development Quarterly
Economic Geography
Economics of Innovation and New Technology
European Planning Studies
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
Erdkunde
FWF Austrian Science Fund
FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology Lisbon, Portugal
Geoforum
Industrial and Corporate Change
International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making
Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Network Science
Omega, The International Journal of Management Science
Papers in Regional Science
Raumforschung und Raumordnung
Regional Studies
Research Policy
Science and Public Policy
Small Business Economics
South African Journal of Economics
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
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Awards

Best Young Scholar Paper Award (DIME final conference, 2011) for the paper: Do cooperative R&D subsidies stimulate regional innovation efficiency? Evidence from Germany.