Dr. Jessica Birkholz

Scientific employee

Contact:

Max-von-Laue-Stra?e 1
28359 Bremen
Building WIWI 2, Room F 2030

Phone: +49 (0)421 218-66634
jessica.birkholz(at)uni-bremen.de

Research:

Entrepreneurship
Regional Economics
Knowledge Creation and Diffusion

ORCID profile:

Dr. Jessica Birkholz is currently working as a research assistant (postdoc) in the research group "Innovation and Structural Economics" (Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther) at the University of Bremen. Her research interests lie in the area of the emergence and diffusion of innovations. In addition, she is active in the hyBit project.

Previously, Ms. Birkholz completed her studies in business administration at the University of Bremen (B.Sc. 2015 and M.Sc. 2018). In the context of her dissertation, which was completed in September 2022, she dealt with the connection between entrepreneurship and knowledge creation and diffusion in regional innovation systems.

Since 09/2022	Scientific Employee University of Bremen
01/2022 - 08/2022	Guest Researcher University of Bremen
03/2018 - 12/2021	Scientific Employee (PhD Candidate) University of Bremen
10/2021 - 11/2021	Research Stay University of Zaragoza - Department of Economic Analysis Funded by: BremenIDEA (Central Research Development Fund at the University of Bremen)
08/2021 - 09/2021	Research Stay Maastricht University - Department of Organisation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Funded by: YUFE Mobility Award (YUFE)
10/2015 – 02/2018	Master in Business Studies University of Bremen Major: Innovation Economics Major: Marketing and Brand Management Titel of thesis: ”Determination of Adoptor Clusters of Innovations According to, for Purchasing Behaviour Relevant, Behavioural Biases and the Analysis of the Impact of Brand Value Dimensions on the Adoption Using the Example of Smartphones. An Empirical Analysis.“ Degree: Master of Science
10/2012 – 08/2015	Bachelor in Business Studies University of Bremen Major:Behavioral Economics Titel of thesis: “Interpersonal Relationships and Their Impact on Consumption Decision Using the Example of Status Symbols: a Graph Theory and Game Theory Approach Involving Aspects of Social Psychology” Degree: Bachelor of Science

Since 09/2022	hyBit - Hydrogen for Bremen`s industrial transformation Project lead: Dr. Torben Stührmann (University of Bremen) Duration: 42 months Project start: 01.09.2022 Funded by: BMBF
03/2018 - 12/2019	VISIBLE 2.0 – Virtual simulation lab for the analysis of investments in learning and education Project lead: Dr. Matthias Müller Duration: 24 months Project start: 01.01.2018 Funded by: Dieter Schwarz Foundation Project consortium: University of Bremen, University of Hohenheim
27/09/2018 - 28/09/2018	Workshop organization of INNcentive
19/09/2019 - 20/09/2019	Workshop organization of INNcentive

SoSe 2021	Teaching Assistance "Trasition, Structural Change and Innovation - Seminar for Bachelor Students in Economics" (Bachelor)
SoSe 2020	Teaching Assistance "Trasition, Structural Change and Innovation - Seminar for Bachelor Students in Economics" (Bachelor)
WiSe 2018/2019	Teaching assistance"Entstehung von Innovationen und Technologien" (Master) Teaching assistance "Project module - Innovation Economics" (Master)
SoSe 2018	Teaching assistance "Innovation economics – Empirics" (Master)
WiSe 2016/2017	Tutorial Introduction to Economics (Bachelor) Tutorial Company Taxation (Bachelor)
WiSe 2014/2015	Tutorial Macroeconomics (Bachelor) Tutorial Company Taxation (Bachelor)

2024

International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT) - Giessen, Germany

Sunbelt Conference - Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Geography of Innovation Conference (GeoInno) - Manchester, United Kingdom

2023

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Conference (EAEPE) - Leeds, United Kingdom

DRUID Conference - Lisbon, Portugal

5th Workshop PhD and Research network ”Economics of Innovation, AI and Data Science applications” - Maastricht, Netherlands

AI Network Meeting - Online Event

2022

Presentation at the Chamber of Commerce - Bremen, Germany

2021

Brown Bag Seminars Business and Economics - Zaragoza, Spain

Scientific Seminar ”Dimensions of Knowledge and Technology Transfer” - Thiessow, Germany

OSE External Seminar - Maastricht, Netherlands

18th ISS Conference - Online Event

Workshop: "Advancing Indicators of Regional Structural Change" - Online Event

2020

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Conference (EAEPE) Konferenz - Online Event

Doktorandenkolloqium - Jena, Germany

Cognitive Economics Virtual Conference - Online Event

2019

Workshop ?Research Area [X] ?Networks‘“ - Stuttgart, Germany

Scientific Seminar "New Dimensions in the Economics of Innovation" - Thiessow, Germany

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Conference (EAEPE) Konferenz - Warsaw, Poland

Uddevalla Symposium 2019 - L'Aquila, Italy

European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics 2019 (EMAEE) - Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

2018

Scientific Seminar "New innovation indicators" - Thiessow, Germany

12 th Summer Academy on "Innovation and Uncertainty" - Jena, Germany

Peer Reviewed Papers

Birkholz, J. (2024): ”Regional Embeddedness is the Key : Quantity and Quality of Regional Business Opportunity Perception”, in : Small Business Economics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00936-w

Birkholz, J. (2023) : ”Do not judge a business idea by its cover : The relation between topics in business ideas and incorporation probability”, in : Journal of Technology Transfer 48, 1327–1358. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-022-09966-6

Books

Birkholz, J. (2022): Entrepreneurship and regional knowledge dyamics - empirical evidence from Germany. Dissertation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/1962

Birkholz, J.; Günther, J.; Shkolnykova, M. (2021): Using Topic Modeling in Innovation Studies: The Case of a Small Innovation System under Conditions of Pandemic Related Change, in: Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation, No. 2101. (link: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/4654)

Policy Paper

Birkholz, J.; Günther, J. and Shykolnykova, M.(2020) :”Der Einfluss von COVID-19 auf das Innovationsgeschehen in Bremen – eine systematische Auswertung aktueller Nachrichtentexte”, in : HWWI Policy Paper, 128

Working Paper

Birkholz, J. (2022) :”Transforming Regional Knowledge Bases : A Network and Machine Learning Approach to Link Entrepreneurial Experimentation and Regional Absorptive Capacity” (link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/1513)

Birkholz, J.; Kühn, J.; Shkolnykova, M. (2022): Exploration or Exploitation: Innovation Behavior of SMEs and Large Firms during the COVID-19 Crisis, in: Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation, No. 2203. (link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/1489)

Birkholz, J.; Kühn, J. (2021): Entrepreneurship Perception during the first COVID-19 Shock: Mental Representations of Entrepreneurship and Preferences of Business Models during the Pandemic, in: Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation, No. 2105. (link: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/5027)