Dr. Huiwen Gong

PostDoc

Economic Geography

Phone
+41 31 684 88 77
E-Mail
huiwen.gong@unibe.ch
Office
209
Postal Address
University of Bern
Institute of Geography
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern

Research focus

  • Geography of sustainability transitions
  • Geography of innovation, regional industrial dynamics
  • Regional innovation policies, innovation systems
  • Emerging industries and technological innovation management
  • Leapfrogging, unrelated diversification in peripheral regions
  • Regional expertise: China and Germany
Work Experience
02/2022-
Postdoctoral research fellow in Economic Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Bern
02/2022-10/2022

Postdoctoral research fellow in Economic Geography, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, EAWAG (ETH-domain), Switzerland (80%)

09/2020-01/2022

Postdoctoral research fellow in Economic Geography, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, EAWAG (ETH-domain), Switzerland

09/2019-08/2020

Postdoctoral research fellow in Economic Geography, Kiel University, Germany (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin mit Zielrichtung Habilitation)

09/2015-08/2019

Research Associate in Economic Geography, Kiel University, Germany

Education
09/2015-08/2019
PhD in Economic Geography, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
09/2012-03/2015 Master of Human Geography, Zhengjiang University, China
09/2008-07/2012 Bachelor or Urban and Rural Planning, Quanzhou Normal University, China
11/2020-02/2021

Visiting Scholar, CISPT, Tsinghua Universtiy, Beijing, China

01/2019-04/2019

Visiting PhD fellow, the Departement of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Switzerland

Jump to: 2023 | 2022

2023

Morisson, Arnault; Gong, Huiwen (2023). Leveraging National Opportunities for Regional Transformation: Multi-Scalar System-building and Legitimation in a Swiss Industrial Town. European planning studies, 32(3), pp. 607-628. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/09654313.2023.2247023

2022

Gong, Huiwen; Hassink, Robert; Foster, Christopher; Hess, Martin; Garretsen, Harry (2022). Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks. Cambridge journal of regions, economy and society, 15(2), pp. 165-181. Oxford University Press doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsac012

Gong, Huiwen; Hassink, Robert; Wang, Cassandra C. (2022). Strategic coupling and institutional innovation in times of upheavals: the industrial chain chief model in Zhejiang, China. Cambridge journal of regions, economy and society, 15(2), pp. 279-303. Oxford University Press 10.1093/cjres/rsac011

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Gong, H*., Binz, C., Hassink, R., & M. Trippl (2022). Emerging Industries: Institutions, Legitimacy and System Building. Regional Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2022.2033199

Gong, H. *, Hassink. R., Fröhlich, K., & Herr, A. (2021). Exploring the scope of regions in challenge-oriented innovation policy: The case of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. European Planning Studieshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2021.2017857

Binz, C., & Gong, H*. (2021). Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries. Regional Studies, 1-14. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2020.1861238?journalCode=cres20

Gong, H., & Hassink, R. (2020). Context sensitivity and economic-geographic (re) theorising. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society13(3), 475-490. https://academic.oup.com/cjres/article/13/3/475/5905684

Gong, H., Hassink, R*., Tan, J., and Huang, D. (2020). Regional Resilience in Times of a Pandemic Crisis: The first preliminary assessment of COVID-19 in China. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 111, 497-512. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tesg.12447

Gong, H*. (2020). Multi-scalar legitimation of a contested industry: a case study of the Hamburg video games industry. Geoforum, 114, 1-9. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718520301226

Gong, H*., & Xin, X. (2019). Buzz and solitude, what matters for creativity? A case study of the online games industry in Shanghai. Geoforum, 106, 105-114. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335228126_Buzz_and_tranquility_what_matters_for_creativity_A_case_study_of_the_online_games_industry_in_Shanghai

Hassink, R*., & Gong, H. (2019). Six critical questions about smart specialization. European Planning Studies, 27(10), 2049-2065. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2019.1650898?journalCode=ceps20

Gong, H. & R. Hassink* (2019). Developing the Shanghai online games industry: a multi-scalar institutional perspective. Growth and Change 50(3), 1006-1025. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/grow.12306

Hassink, R⃰., Gong, H., & Marques, P. (2019). Moving beyond Anglo-American economic geography: authors’ response. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 23(2), 198-204. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/12265934.2018.1538812?journalCode=rjus20

Gong, H., & Hassink, R*. (2019). Co-evolution in contemporary economic geography: towards a theoretical framework. Regional Studies, 53(9), 1344–1355. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2018.1494824?journalCode=cres20

Hassink, R⃰., Gong, H., & Marques, P. (2019). Moving beyond Anglo-American economic geography. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 23(2), 149-169. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/12265934.2018.1469426?journalCode=rjus20

Hassink, R*., Hu, X., Shin, D. H., Yamamura, S., & Gong, H. (2018). The restructuring of old industrial areas in East Asia. Area Development and Policy, 3(2), 185-202. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23792949.2017.1413405?journalCode=rard20

Gong, H., & Hassink, R*. (2017). Exploring the clustering of creative industries. European Planning Studies, 25(4), 583-600. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2017.1289154?journalCode=ceps20

Gong, H., Hassink, R*., & Maus, G. (2017). What does Pokémon Go teach us about geography?. Geographica Helvetica, 72(2), 227-230. https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/72/227/2017/

余振, 龚惠文*, 胡晓辉 (2020). 可持续转型地理研究进展、反思与展望. 地理科学进展.

龚惠文*,季青原,金平斌 (2015). 基于空间计量模型的中国东中部地区FDI时空演变格局研究.浙江大学学报理学版, 42(5):595-604

 

Book chapters

Hassink, R., & Gong, H. (2021). Six critical questions about smart specialization. In: L. Lazzeretti, F. Capone, A. Caloffi, & S. R. Sedita (eds.), Rethinking Clusters; Towards a New Research Agenda for Cluster Research. London: Routledge, 171-187.

Hassink, R*., & Gong, H. (2019). New economic geography. In: Orum, A.M., M. Garcia, D. Judd, B. Roberts, P.C. Piew (eds.), Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hassink, R*. & Gong, H. (2019). Regional Resilience. In: Kobayashi, A, Boyle M, Castree, N, Collins, F, Crampton J, de Leeuw, S, Ho, E, Luginah, I, Maharaj, B and J Tyner. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, Oxford.

Gong, H., & Hassink, R*. (2017). Regional resilience critique revisited. In: Vorley and Williams (eds.), Creating resilient economies: entrepreneurship, growth and development in uncertain times. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.