Publikationen

2025

Mazzoni, F., Binz, C., & Losacker, S. (2025). What can the bamboo industry learn from timber? Resource mobilization across global innovation systems in the construction sector. Geoforum, 165, 104378.

Schütz, M., Kriesch, L., & Losacker, S. (2025). Mapping Local Government Priorities: A Web-Mining Approach for Regional Research. Regional Science Policy & Practice, 100240.

Lütkes, L., Dirksmeier, P. Tuitjer, L. (2025). From committed to dismissive: how conspiracy mentality and trust in the democratic (political) system shape climate policy perspectives in Germany. Climate Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2522828

Kriesch, L., Losacker, S. (2025). A geolocated dataset of German news articles. Scientific Data 12, 1128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05422-w

Losacker, S., Becker, T., & Shang, Y. (2025). Guanxi and innovation in China: insights from the (bio-based) construction sector. Innovation and Development, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930X.2025.2518825

Kriesch, L., Abbasiharofteh, M., & Losacker, S. (2025). The geography of digital and green (twin) firms in Germany. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 12(1), 513–516. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2025.2510679

Jayaweera, R., Losacker, S., Le Song, T., & Schwede, D. (2025). Regional preconditions and sustainability transition pathways: Insights from circular, bio-based and resource-efficient building material innovations in Vietnam. Energy Research & Social Science, 125, 104133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104133

Liefner, I., Brueck, C., Losacker, S., Zeng, G. (2025). What can mission-oriented innovation policy learn from China?, Science and Public Policy, scaf023, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaf023

Otto, A., Losacker, S. & Hansmeier, H. (2025). Relatedness, complexity, and regional development paths in Germany: a sequencing approach. The Annals of Regional Science, 74, 50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-025-01375-5

Fischer, L., & Losacker, S. (2025). How to build (in) the future? Legitimacy of socio-technical visions in a bio-based construction sector. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 56, 100996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2025.100996

Hansmeier, H., Losacker, S., Bersch, J., & Kroll, H. (2025). Regional Specializations in Green Incumbents and Green Start-ups in the German Transport Sector. Growth and Change, 56(1), e70025. https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.70025

2024

Fischer, L., & Losacker, S. (2024). Competing or complementary?: Socio-technical imaginaries of a bio-based construction sector. TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie Und Praxis, 33(3), 15–21. https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.7145

Losacker, S., Befort, N., Kriesch, L., & Lhuillery, S. (2024). Tracking pathways towards a bioeconomy: A sequence analysis of regional patent portfolios. Papers in Innovation Studies, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.

Kriesch, L., & Losacker, S. (2024). A global patent dataset of bioeconomy-related inventions. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1308.

Abbasiharofteh, M., & Kriesch, L. (2024). Not all twins are identical: the digital layer of “twin” transition market applications (No. 2024/16). Papers in Innovation Studies, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.

Mazzoni, F., & Losacker, S. (2024). What hinders the transition towards a bio-based construction sector? A global innovation system perspective on its value chain. Progress in Economic Geography, 100023.

Becker, T., & Losacker, S. (2024). Die räumliche Dimension des EU-Emissionshandels (EU ETS): Messung des regionalen Transformationsdrucks in Deutschland. Standort, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-024-00951-9

Gruen, L., Hanke-Rauschenbach, R., Hoelzen, J., Liefner, I., & Losacker, S. (2024). Tis Subsystems and Modes of Innovation: The Case of Hydrogen-Powered Aviation. Available at SSRN 4945492.

Brueck, C., Losacker, S., & Liefner, I. (2024). China’s digital and green (twin) transition: insights from national and regional innovation policies. Regional Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2384411.

Cicerone, G., Losacker, S., & Ortega-Argilés, R. (2024). Regional diversification into green and digital economic activities–The case of UK Local Authorities.

Liefner, I., Brueck, C., Losacker, S., & Zeng, G. (2024). What can mission-oriented innovation policy learn from China?. Available at SSRN 4869399.

Kriesch, L., & Losacker, S. (2024). A global patent dataset for the bioeconomy. Papers in Innovation Studies, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.

Muehlberger, C. M., Gruen, L., Liefner, I., & Losacker, S. (2024). Socio-technical imaginaries of climate-neutral aviation. Energy Research & Social Science, 114, 103595.

Kriesch, L., & Losacker, S. (2024). Bioeconomy firms and where to find them. Region, 11(1), 55-78.

Losacker, S., & Kuebart, A. (2024). Introducing Sequence Analysis to Economic Geography. Progress in Economic Geography, 100012.

Hansmeier, H. & Losacker, S. (2024). Regional eco-innovation trajectories. European Planning Studies.

Fischer, L., Losacker, S., & Wydra, S. (2024). National specialization and diversification in the bioeconomy: Insights from biobased technologies in chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. Technology in Society, 102462.

2023

Losacker, S. & Fastenrath, S. (2023). Innovation und transformativer Wandel im Bausektor: Eine wirtschaftsgeographische Perspektive. In: Koschatzky, Knut & Stahlecker, Thomas (Hrsg.). Nachhaltige Transformationen und resilienter Strukturwandel in Regionen, 63-87.