• Home
  • Benjamin Klement
Benjamin Klement

Benjamin Klement
Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW · Innovation Policy and Transfer Design

Ph.D.

About

18
Publications
4,227
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
285
Citations
Introduction
Benjamin Klement currently works at the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy. Benjamin does research in Economic Geography, Evolutionary Economics and Institutional Economics.
Additional affiliations
August 2015 - September 2017
Philipps University of Marburg
Position
  • PhD Student
October 2011 - August 2015
Philipps University of Marburg
Position
  • Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben // Ph.D. student
October 2011 - September 2017
Philipps University of Marburg
Position
  • Research Assistant
Description
  • Economic Geography, Population Geography, Statistics I, Applied Statistics with R, Seminar: "The Geography of Beer: Sustainability in the food industry", Rural Geography

Publications

Publications (18)
Article
This article investigates the relation between different forms of (related) variety found in urban music scenes and innovation in music. While related variety has been found to be positively associated with several indicators of regional economic development and technological innovation, it remains unclear whether its merits also benefit innovation...
Thesis
Full-text available
This thesis addresses the question of how regions can adapt to technological and social changes. In the face of recent economic crises, disruptive digitalization, and the need to transition towards sustainability, processes of diversification, transformation, and renewal have become increasingly important to strengthen the dynamics development of r...
Chapter
Der Begriff der Resilienz erfährt aktuell eine starke Resonanz in der Wirtschaftsgeographie. Das Platzen der Dotcom-Blase und die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise Ende der 2000er Jahre werfen Fragen dazu auf, wie ökonomische Krisen entstehen und wie sie vermieden oder gemeistert werden können. Auch Herausforderungen des Klimawandels, der Ressourcenverk...
Article
Profound insights into why some regional paths remain dynamic over several decades while others follow a bumpy road and become stuck in the past are still scarce. This paper addresses this gap by contributing to a deeper understanding of dynamics within territorial paths. It focuses on organizational and institutional changes connected with so-call...
Article
The changing nature of innovation processes is a significant feature of the global structural transformation towards knowledge economies. Much more than in the past, innovation processes require the integration of highly specialized knowledge bases distributed over heterogeneous actors. Hence, we claim that there is a hidden qualitative shift in kn...
Article
Full-text available
Im Auftrag des Regionalmanagements Düsseldorf – Kreis Mettmann hat das Fraunhofer– Zentrum für Internationales Management und Wissensökonomie IMW diese Studie erarbeitet, die neben dem Innovationsgeschehen in der Region Düsseldorf – Kreis Mettmann, Kompetenzbereiche und Innovationsfelder in den Blick nimmt, welche in Zusammenarbeit mit den Kompeten...
Technical Report
Full-text available
Vor dem Hintergrund der Empfehlungen der „Kommission für Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung“ für das Ende der Braunkohleverstromung in Deutschland beschäftigt sich die Zukunftsagentur Rheinisches Revier, insbesondere der Revierknoten "Innovation und Bildung", mit der Verbesserung des regionalen Innovationssystems im Revier. Wird diesem zwar...
Technical Report
Full-text available
Mit dem Zentralen Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM) fördert das BMWi Forschung und Entwicklung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen sowie das Management und die Organisation von Kooperationsnetzwerken auch mit internationalen Partnern, um die Zusammenarbeit mit den weltweit geeignetsten Partnern zu ermöglichen. Das Fraunhofer IMW evaluierte b...
Presentation
Full-text available
There is an increasing need to measure non-technological innovation, such as social innovation, innovation in creative industries, business model innovation or user-driven innovation. Unfortunately, these types of innovation are “hidden” from traditional innovation indicators (Miles & Green 2008), as they elude standardized classification systems a...
Article
Using data on the emergence of music genres from 1970 to 2015, this paper examines the relative importance of related and unrelated diversification processes for symbolic knowledge creation. Modelling 33 urban music scenes from Northern America and Europe as network-based symbolic knowledge bases allows for the testing of whether new genres are rel...
Technical Report
Full-text available
Das Ziel dieser Studie ist, internationale Erfahrungen zum Strukturwandel zu analysieren und die Aktivitäten der Kommission „Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung" bei der Entwicklung von Instrumenten zu unterstützen. Somit soll diese Studie als ein Baustein für die Vorbereitung der Kommission dienen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden im Vorfeld n...
Presentation
Full-text available
In recent years, the study of regional knowledge bases has benefited from the introduction of measures on the relatedness between its constituting elements (HIDALGO et al. 2007), allowing for detailed analysis of variety in regions and its visualization as knowledge spaces (KOGLER et al. 2013). However, these studies have focused on technological k...
Presentation
Full-text available
Non-scientific, non-technological, symbolic knowledge (ASHEIM/HANSEN 2009) has gained in importance for regional innovation policies not only because of the growth of the creative industries it underlies (BERG/HASSINK 2014), but also due to its potentials in upgrading manufacturing industries (HATCH 2014) and fostering resilience (SEDITA et al. 201...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
Auch wenn besungen wird, dass Musik „in der Luft“ liegt, so lässt sich bei genauerer Betrachtung feststellen, dass bestimmte Orte besonders hervorstechen in der Produktion spezifischer Musikgenres. Geographische Literatur welche sich mit Musik auseinandersetzt, diskutiert die Entwicklung von Musik-Clustern (FLORIDA et al. 2010; BRANDERELLO & PFEFFE...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
The actual knowledge interactions within MNCs leading to innovation elude the analysis of aggregated data such as R&D expenditures and patents. In return, qualitative studies, which describe single innovation events in-depth, lack the possibility to generalize findings and find determinants of the observed practices. In the "black box" of intra-fir...
Article
Full-text available
In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a geographical dispersion of innovation activities as well? Furthermore, which parts of the innovation process are c...

Network

Cited By