Steinbeis Research Center Regional Economy, Innovation Systems and Municipal Finance

• Scientific policy consulting
• Expert reports and statements
• Secondary statistical analysis
• Concept development and conducting of surveys
• Regional evaluations and business location evaluations
• Feasibility studies
• SWOT analysis
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Impact studies
• Regional development concepts
• Evaluation and scientific Support

Scientific regional development

• Competiveness and structural change
• Technological capability and innovation systems
• Internationalization in the economy
• Regional impacts of universities and research institutions
• Specialist development and retention programs

Sustainable regional development

• Challenges with demographic change
• Sustainable development of regional and global value chains
• Sustainability transformation in socio-technical systems
• Transformation processes between conflicting priorities of cities and regions

Applied regional Analysis

• Local funding and local municipal financial compensation
• Population forecasting
• Regional economics impact of state programs and business instruments
• Evaluation of regional political programs and instruments

• The importance of R&D service providers in the German innovation system
• Informality and sustainable development of urban economies
• Development prospects for an “energy region” in western Lower Saxony
• Regional economic impact of closing a final disposal site for radioactive waste
• Expert report on local government financial compensation in Saxony
• Revision of the horizontal financial compensation system in Lower Saxony
• Identifying revealed comparative advantages (RCAs) in an EU regional context
• Opportunities and threats to the safeguarding of sustainability in terms of the capabilities of the rural district of Lüchow-Dannenberg
• “What will happen if the road traffic infrastructure is not improved?” A regional development analysis in Holzminden-Höxter
• The regional economic importance of shipbuilding for the rural district of Emsland and Leer
• Basic analysis to identify the specific actions required in five separate areas of Lower Saxony
• Expert report on the development of local government financial compensation in Schleswig-Holstein
• The willingness of researchers to travel and migration of qualified workers: an international comparison of Germany’s standing in this area
• Feasibility study on the development of a key indicator system for “researcher mobility and innovation”
• Analysis of interwoven locations for the economic region of Lower Bavaria
  Regional monitoring in Lower Saxony
• Expert report on local government financial compensation in Thuringia
• Economic science benchmarking analysis of local funding in Rhineland-Palatinate
• Expert report on financial compensation legislation in Saxony between 2009 and 2010
• Promoting effective modes of university and industry linkages and their evolution for economic catch-up in Asia
• Municipality code allocation in Bavaria
• Methods for identifying the demand for local government financial compensation in Saxony