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Chair of Macroeconomics Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Wolfram Berger

Dr. Andreas Kuebart

Dr. Andreas Kuebart joined the Chair of Economics (Macroeconomics) at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg in October 2026. In the BMFTR-funded joint project "Centre for Structural Change and Regional Development" (ZeStuR), he heads Research Group 1, "Revitalisation of Regional Innovation Systems in Peripheral Areas", as a parental leave replacement.

He studied geography at Humboldt University of Berlin (B.A.) and the University of Bonn (M.Sc.), with guest stays at the universities of Stockholm and Florida (Gainesville). Within the framework of his doctoral project, he dealt with the geographies of knowledge and innovation in the context of entrepreneurial ecosystems, using case studies on seed accelerators in the USA and Germany, and was awarded his Dr. rer. nat. at Freie Universität Berlin in January 2020. Since 2015, Andreas Kuebart has been a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner, currently in the research area Economy and Civil Society. He has also been working at the BTU since 2019, previously at the Chair of Socio-spatial Transformation.

His research interests are situated within the disciplinary boundaries of human and economic geography, focusing on the geographies of socio-spatial processes in the context of the digital economy and society. Thematically, his work involves topics related to the financial geographies of entrepreneurial ecosystems, regional development, and health geography. Methodologically, he has been involved in qualitative case studies and applies techniques of spatial data science in his work.

Contact:
Andreas.Kuebart(at)b-tu.de

Office hours:
by appointment by e-mail

Key research areas

  • Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • Financial Geography
  • Geographies of AI
  • Diffusion of Infectious Diseases
  • Geographical Data Science

Research

2026

Kuebart, A. (2026). KI-Atlas Deutschland: Eine räumliche Analyse von Forschung, Ökonomie und Souveränität. IRS Dialog.

Stabler, M., & Kuebart, A. (2026). Spatial Diffusion of COVID-19: an ESDA Approach to the Second Wave in Germany. GeoJournal, 91(2), [74]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-026-11619-2

Kuebart, A. (2026). The Evolutionary Mosaic: A Geographical Sequence Analysis of the Berlin Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. The Professional Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2026.2667386

Step up Startups Research Team (2026, Jan 23). Agentic AI: Leveraging European AI Talent and Regulatory Assets to Scale Adoption. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/123827

2025

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). Europe’s Open-Source AI Landscape. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/122830

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). The Role of AI in the EU's Dual-use Technology Field. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/123344

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). Ease of Doing Startups in the EU: A Path Towards Enhanced Competitiveness and Innovation. European Commission. https://czechstartups.gov.cz/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ease_of_doing_startups_cKZDiuZB8DKZb8cXsjbxqP4GmQ_121800-3.pdf

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). Shaping the Future of AI Talent in Europe: Strategies for Growth and Retention. European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/121010

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). Public Sector Services and the AI Opportunity. European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/120917

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). Untapped Opportunities for European Venture Capital: Pension Funds and Sovereign Wealth Funds. European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/121531

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). Funding the AI Economy. European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/121285

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). The Opportunity for AI to Enhance Business Support Processes. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/119707

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). Spin-offs: Reinforcing a Vector of Value Creation for EU-27. The Deep Tech Opportunity. European Commission. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/spin-offs-driving-innovation-across-eu-27

Step up Startups Research Team (2025). Beyond Fragmentation: The Connectivity of Startup Ecosystems in Europe. European Commission. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/beyond-fragmentation-connecting-europes-startup-ecosystems-growth-and-innovation

Kuebart, A., Santini, E., & Forrer, V. (2025). No Islands of Entrepreneurship: Mapping the Trans-local Dimension of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems through Networks of Accelerator Participation. Small Business Economics, 65(3), 1427–1442. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-025-01026-1

2024

Schäfer, S., & Kuebart, A. (2024). A Typology of Trans-local Knowledge Circulation between Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. In J. A. Cunningham, M. Menter, C. O'Kane, & M. Romano (Eds.), Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (pp. 279–293). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378988

Losacker, S., & Kuebart, A. (2024). Introducing Sequence Analysis to Economic Geography. Progress in Economic Geography, 2(1), [100012]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2024.100012

2023

Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2023). Waves in Time, but not in Space: An Analysis of Pandemic Severity of COVID-19 in Germany based on Spatio-temporal Clustering. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 47, [100605]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2023.100605

Kuebart, A. (2023, Jul 5). Open Startup Ecosystem & Sustainable Growth. Startup Heatmap Europe.

Stabler, M., & Kuebart, A. (2023). Tempo-spatial Dynamics of COVID-19 in Germany: A Phase Model Based on a Pandemic Severity Indicator. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.17.23286084

2022

Santini, E., Forrer, V., Kuebart, A., & Kösters, T. (2022, Jun 20). Open Startup Regions & Sustainable Growth: Startup Heatmap Europe Report 2022. https://startupheatmap.eu/

Kuebart, A. (2022). Open Creative Labs as Functional Infrastructure for Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Using Sequence Analysis to Explore Tempo-spatial Trajectories of Startups in Berlin. Research Policy, 51(9), [104444]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104444

2021

Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2021). Risikoprozesse statt Risikogebiete – Raumdimensionen der COVID-19-Pandemie in Deutschland. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, 48(2), 40–49. https://elibrary.steiner-verlag.de/article/99.105010/izr202102004001

2020

Kuebart, A. (2020). Infektionsnetzwerke und Infektionsorte – Super-spreading-Ereignisse in der Epidemie. In C. Stegbauer, & I. Clemens (Eds.), Corona-Netzwerke – Gesellschaft im Zeichen des Virus (pp. 35–44). Springer.

Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2020). Infectious Diseases as Socio‐Spatial Processes: The COVID‐19 Outbreak in Germany. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111(3), 482–496. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12429

Kuebart, A., & Ibert, O. (2020). Choreographies of Entrepreneurship: How Different Formats of Co-Presence are Combined to Facilitate Knowledge Creation in Seed Accelerator Programs. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 78(1), 35–51. https://doi.org/10.2478/rara-2019-0047

2019

Kuebart, A., & Ibert, O. (2019). Beyond Territorial Conceptions of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Dynamic Spatiality of Knowledge Brokering in Seed Accelerators. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 63(2–4), 118–133. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2018-0012 · http://hdl.handle.net/10419/227134

Kuebart, A. (2019). Geographies of Relational Coordination in Venture Capital Firms. European Planning Studies, 27(11), 2206–2226. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1620696

2018

Schmidt, S., Ibert, O., Kühn, J., & Kuebart, A. (2018). Open Creative Labs in Deutschland – Räumliche Konfigurationen für Temporäres Experimentieren und Arbeiten. In H. Pechlaner, & E. Innerhofer (Eds.), Temporäre Konzepte: Coworking und Coliving als Perspektive für die Regionalentwicklung (pp. 60–76). Kohlhammer.

Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Brewig, S. (2018). Shearmur Richard, Carrincazeaux Christophe and Doloreux David (Eds): Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2016), pp. 512. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 62(1), 82–85. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2017-0027

2017

Lange, B., Schmidt, S., Domann, V., Ibert, O., Kühn, J., & Kuebart, A. (2017). Basteln – Gestalten – Experimentieren: Offene kreative Orte in Deutschland. Nationalatlas, 11, 3. http://aktuell.nationalatlas.de/kreative_orte-3_04-2017-0-html/

2016

Kuebart, A. (2016). Berlin as an Emerging Venture Capital Ecosystem. Poster session presented at Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Berlin, Germany. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283856662_Berlin_as_an_emerging_venture_capital_ecosystem

Schmidt, S., Ibert, O., Kuebart, A., & Kühn, J. (2016, Nov 1). Open Creative Labs: Typologisierung, Verbreitung und Entwicklungsbedingungen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.