Ivo Mossig

Ivo Mossig (* 1969 in Cologne ) is a German economic geographer and professor at the University of Bremen .

biography

From 1991 to 1995 Mossig studied geography and mathematics for the teaching post at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen up to the 1st state examination but then became a qualified geographer. From 1996 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Economic Geography. In 2000 he received his doctorate on the subject of spatial concentration of the packaging machine construction industry in West Germany. An analysis of the start-up process . From 2001 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Economic Geography. In 2004 a stay at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) followed. In 2005 he completed his habilitation on the topic of networks in cultural economics. Local nodes and local interdependencies of the film and television industry in Germany and the USA ?. This was followed by substitute professorships at the University of Tübingen and Heidelberg University .

In 2008 he became a professor at the University of Bremen for human geography (focus on economic and social geography) at the Institute for Geography in the field of social sciences (FB 08). In 2010 he received the Berninghausen Prize there for excellent teaching and innovation .

Publications (selection)

• E. Giese, I. Mossig, H. Schröder: Globalization of the economy. An introduction to economic geography. UTB, Stuttgart 2011.
• L. Schieber, I. Mossig: Cluster development and policy in the packaging machine construction industry in Baden-Württemberg. In: Contributions to economic geography and regional development. 2/2011. Text available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00101994-18
• I. Mossig, D. Fornahl, H. Schröder: Eureka or Phoenix from the ashes? The development path of the offshore wind energy industry in northwest Germany. In: Journal of Economic Geography. Volume 54, No. 3/4, 2010, pp. 222-237.
• I. Mossig: Conceptual overview to explain the existence of geographical clusters. Evolution, institutions and the importance of knowledge. In: Yearbook for Regional Studies. 22, 2002, pp. 143-161.