Data Vanessa Hellwig

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Consultation hours

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Curriculum Vitae

Vanessa Hellwig is a postdoctoral researcher at TU Dortmund. Ms. Hellwig received a PhD in Spatial Planning from the TU Dortmund and holds a MSc in Spatial Planning and a BSc in Spatial Planning from TU Dortmund. Her research interests are in the area of urban economics, geographic clustering of innovative and creative activities and digitisation. Her most recent research focuses on the spatial distribution of innovative cities in Germany. As part of her PhD research, she studied various impacts of digitisation on cities and their economies.

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Projects

Publications

Digital gravity? Firm birth and relocation patterns of young digital firms in Germany, Journal of Regional Science, September 2022.
Shoulders and shadows of giants: intra-regional distribution of the digital industry in Germany, Regional Studies, Regional Science, March 2023.

Working Paper(s)

"No relevant knowledge within your radius? Location patterns of digital firms and knowledge institutions" - submitted.
"Social connectedness, FDI and Trade" joint with Felix Dornseifer and Maren Kaliske - work in progess.
"Money can buy you cleverness. Public funding for software firms and it’s effects on innovation outputs" joint with Christiane Hellmanzik - work in progress.

Weitere Veröffentlichungen

Innovative Städte in Deutschland - eine Analyse des Innovationspotenzials und der Erfolgsfaktoren. In: Schroeder, W., Bitzegeio, U., Fischer, S. (Hrsg.): Digitale Industrie. Algorithmische Arbeit. Gesellschaftliche Transformation 2020.

Konferenzen

EURA 2022 Conference Milan – No relevant knowledge within your radius? Location patterns of digital firms and knowledge institutions
Dortmund Conference Spatial Planning and Planning Research 2022 - No relevant knowledge within your radius? Location and co-location patterns of digital firms and knowledge institutions in Germany. –accepted and postponed to 2023 due to covid-19
EURA 2020 Conference Oslo Agglomeration economies and the internet – Mapping the digital economy in German Cities - accepted and cancelled due to covid-19
Dortmunder Konferenz Raum- und Planungsforschung 2020: „Agglomeration economies and the internet – Mapping the digital economy in German Cities“

Teaching

Spatial and Urban Economics (tutorial), BSc Economics
Empirical Spatial Economics (seminar), BSc Spatial Planning
Globalisation (seminar), MSc Economics
Globalisation (MSc group project), School of Spatial Planning
Economics of Digitalization (seminar), MSc Economics, MSc Spatial Planning
Economics of Migration (seminar), MSc & BSc Economics, MSc Spatial Planning
Academic Writing (SPRING MSc, BSc Economics)
Smart City – wie wird man gescheit smart? Empirische Untersuchung von Smart City Strategien (Third year group project, School of Spatial Planning) (2020)

Supervision of 16 undergraduate and eleven master’s dissertations