Human Geography, Innovation Sciences and Entrepreneurship

The interactions between society, the economy and the natural environment are at the centre of this field of research. The complex combination of different impact factors in specific habitats needs to be explained and modelled, and suitable methods for analysis need to be tested. In the context of the ‘Grand Challenges’, we are investigating how the functionality of ecosystems is changing, how the economy can be reorganised towards sustainability, how society reacts to far-reaching changes and how creativity and ingenuity can be used to implement new solutions to problems.