
Sebastian LosackerUniversity of Giessen | JLU · Department of Geography
Sebastian Losacker
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May 2022 - present
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The construction sector needs to transition toward using bio-based building materials in order to reduce its negative environmental impact. However, it is unclear how exactly such a bio-based future will look like, with different stakeholders in different geographical contexts having different visions of the sector's future. Based on an extensive c...
National governments worldwide have implemented strategies to transition towards biobased economies, primarily driven by technological progress. However, how this transition unfolds at the regional level remains under-researched. This paper aims to uncover regional trajectories towards a bioeconomy with a focus on bio-based technologies. We build o...
Many governments worldwide have proposed transitioning from a fossil-based economy to a bioeconomy to address climate change, resource depletion, and other environmental concerns. The bioeconomy utilizes renewable biological resources across all sectors and is strongly founded on scientific advances and technological progress. Given that the bioeco...
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Um die Wirtschaft in eine emissionsarme Zukunft zu führen und den Klimawandel einzudämmen, wurde auf europäischer Ebene das EU-Emissionshandelssystem (EU ETS) eingeführt. Es funktioniert über einen Cap-and-Trade-Mechanismus und reguliert derzeit etwa 40 % der CO 2 -Emissionen in der EU. Aufgrund regionaler Unterschiede in der Indust...
This paper examines the role of policy in China's digital and green (twin) transition, building on a qualitative study of a large corpus of policy documents in green and digital domains. We analyse the multi-level governance of these transitions for three regional case studies: Shanghai, Wuhan and Hangzhou. We find that regions both adopt and adjus...
Regions are currently facing a twin transition, involving a shift towards more environmentally friendly economies as well as the digitalization of economic activities. Against this backdrop, this paper examines the geography of green, digital, and twin economic activities in the UK, utilizing a novel dataset that captures these emerging sectors thr...
Many governments worldwide have proposed transitioning from a fossil-based economy to a bioeconomy to address climate change, resource depletion, and other environmental concerns. The bioeconomy utilizes renewable biological resources across all sectors and is strongly founded on scientific advances and technological progress. Given that the bioeco...
Limiting global warming to 1.5C is crucial to prevent the worst effects of climate change. This entails also the decarbonization of the aviation sector, which is considered to be a "hard-to-abate" sector and thus requires special attention regarding its sustainability transition. However, transition pathways to a potentially climate-neutral aviatio...
The bioeconomy represents a transformative approach to economic development and sustainability by harnessing biological resources and knowledge to produce goods, services, and energy while reducing dependence on non-renewable resources. In order to understand and support the bioeconomy, scholars and policymakers rely on an accurate measurement and...
Facilitating the transformation of innovation systems is a vital endeavor within the global quest to diminish the detrimental environmental consequences of economic activities. Against this background, scholars and policymakers emphasize the potentials of a societal transition towards a ‘bioeconomy’. In this paper, we study the technological specia...
Given that eco-innovations and the associated renewal of regional economic structures are pivotal in addressing environmental challenges, regional research is increasingly focusing on their spatio-temporal dynamics. While green technological and industrial path developments in specific regions have received considerable attention, little effort has...
This article provides a critical literature review on the regional determinants of environmental innovation. The analysis of the relevant literature on supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and institutional factors reveals the importance of regional determinants in green technology development. Specifically, regional R&D collaborations, univer...
Um soziale und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit zu erreichen, braucht es eine veränderte Wirtschaft. Hier stellen sich Herausforderungen auf globaler, nationaler und regionaler Ebene. Dieser Band führt umfassend in die empirischen Grundlagen, Theorien und Politikinstrumente einer nachhaltig ausgerichteten Wirtschaftsgeographie ein und ist auch für Studie...
The transfer of research findings into teaching practice is often defined as a mutual exchange process between research and teaching practice. In the exchange and handling of new findings, the implicitaction-guiding orientations of teachers in particular are highly important. The present study is dedicated to reconstructing these orientations of te...
A fast adoption and diffusion of green technologies will be essential for a successful transition of the world’s economies towards more sustainable modes of production and consumption. This article investigates the speed of green technology diffusion in China using a unique data set, which lists geocoded patent licence agreements for green technolo...
The consequences of the climate crisis for life on earth are already severe. In addition, the planet is facing a multitude of other negative environmental impacts of human activity, including the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of resources and environmental pollution, to name but a few. In response to these great challenges, there has been ext...
Environmental innovations make an important contribution to solving ecological and climate crises. Although these crises are global phenomena, the regional dimension plays a crucial role, as regions both provide the conditions for the development of environmental innovations and promote widespread use and diffusion. Against this background, this ar...
This paper builds on an acceleration mechanisms framework from transition studies and analyzes the role of green events for sustainable urban transformations. We study eight regional garden shows in German small and medium-sized cities, using interview and document data as well as on-site visits for an in-depth qualitative analysis. Our findings re...
Based on the concept of regional lead markets for environmental innovation, this paper fits exponential random graph models on a regionalized patent licensing network to explore how green technologies diffuse in space. The empirical analysis relies on a novel database of license agreements for Chinese patents, which are used to measure spatial inno...
The aim of this poster presentation is to highlight the value of using patent licensing data to measure innovation diffusion. It features exploratory data analyses and visualizations that reveal information on the speed and geography of green technology diffusion in China.
The success of environmental innovations and sustainability transitions critically depends on market formations and diffusion processes. As of today, the geography of transitions literature provides suitable terms and case study evidence that these processes are highly regional phenomena. However, pertinent conceptual frameworks such as the multi-l...
Heatmap techniques are used to visualize the geography of green technology license agreements in China. The map is based on unique patent and licensing data, linking regional technology development (licensors) to regional technology adoption (licensees), thus allowing the study of diffusion patterns of green technologies. It highlights the fact tha...
China's government aims to become an innovation nation and promotes the development of so‐called indigenous innovation. Under this paradigm of state‐encouraged innovation, however, it is unclear how domestic firms organize their innovation processes. We distinguish between two strategies in that respect: closed versus open innovation. Our findings...
The political concept of indigenous innovation in China sets out a guiding principle for the country’s major transformation towards becoming an innovation nation. However, firms’ innovation strategies and capabilities in middle-income countries are usually heterogeneous, making a uniform response to this concept at the company level highly unlikely...