DFG-funded Project: Regional value creation in border regions

Regional value creation in border regions illustrated by the food industry

Project aims:

The project aims to understand better cross-border value creation and its role within multi-scale economic dynamics. Thereby, it combines two prominent strands of research in human geography: On the one hand, it refers to Border Studies, which has analysed events in border areas in many different ways in recent years. However, small-scale economic geography aspects have so far been given little attention. On the other hand, the project adopts an economic geography perspective. The transnational perspective is also present in the debate on global production networks (GPN). However, within these debates the focus is more on the transnational and global scale rather than the regional.

Empirical basis:
Empirically, the project is embedded in the field of agri-food studies. Several case studies are planned, including  the beer sector in the border region Czech Republic  and others more.