Dr. Anna Butzin

Researcher
Research Department Innovation, Space & Culture

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Anna Butzin is a researcher at the Department of Innovation, Space and Culture of the Institute of Work and Technology at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences. She studied spatial planning with a focus on regional economic development and European structural policy at the Technical University of Dortmund and the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. She completed her PhD at the Department of Geography at the Philipps University of Marburg on the topic of knowledge dynamics in innovation biographies.

Research interests

• Structural change and transformation in cities and regions
• Innovation, regional development and transformative knowledge
• Start-up ecosystems
• Regional innovation policy
• Locations and networks of bicycle manufacturing in Germany

Teaching activities

Anna Butzin has a teaching assignment at the Faculty for Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund, where she lectures economic development in cities and regions. She was interim professor at the Department for Economic Geography of the University of Bayreuth from 04/2018 until 02/2019 and was interim professor at the Department for Urban and Regional Economy of the University of Kassel from 04/2022 until 02/2023.