Gernot Grabher (born 13 April 1960 in Dornbirn,

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

) is an economic geographer and Professor of Urban and Regional Economic Studies at the

HafenCity University Hamburg The HafenCity University Hamburg (german: HafenCity Universität Hamburg, abbreviated ''HCU'') — also known as the University Of The Built Environment And Metropolitan Development — is a public university in Hamburg, Germany which is focuse ...

. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 at Vienna University of Technology, and held positions at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB),

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, the University of Konstanz and the University of Bonn. Grabher was Visiting Professor at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School (Danish'': Handelshøjskolen i København'') often abbreviated and referred to as CBS (also in Danish), is a public university situated in Copenhagen, Denmark and is considered one of the most prestigious business schoo ...

, Santa Fe Institute,

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and the Institute of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Between 2007 and 2011 he was co-editor of

Economic Geography Economic geography is the subfield of human geography which studies economic activity and factors affecting them. It can also be considered a subfield or method in economics. There are four branches of economic geography. There is, primary secto ...

. Currently, he is co-editor of the Regions and Cities book series of the Regional Studies Association. Gernot Grabher is internationally renowned for his research on networks, regional evolution and decline, and project organization.

Selected works

* (with O. Ibert und S. Flohr) The Neglected King: Consumers in the New Knowledge Ecology of Innovation. In: Economic Geography 84(3), 2008. * Trading Routes, Bypasses, and Risky Intersections: Mapping the Travels of ‘Networks’ between Economic Sociology and Economic Geography. In: Progress in Human Geography 30(2), 2006. * Temporary Architectures of Learning: Knowledge Governance in Project Ecologies. In: Organization Studies 25(9), 2004. * (with W. W. Powell), Networks. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (Critical Studies in Economic Institutions Series), 2004. * (with D. Stark), Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism: Legacies, Linkages, and Localities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. * The Embedded Firm. On the Socioeconomics of Industrial Networks. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.

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