Prof. Dr. Tina Haisch

Expertise

Since February 2017 Tina Haisch has been working with the School of Business, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. At the same time, she has her own business companies (“Raumwirtschaft”, “Creafutura”). Since 2008 she has been consultant as an independent expert to organisations and regions in the fields of promoting innovation and the economic development of regions. Also, she is expert to answer all questions about NRP and cooperative projects in different political levels, such as communities, cantons, regions, federal government. Now she is leading several different projects with the topics “innovative development of areas” and real-world laboratories. These are e.g. Areal RTunlimited in Reutlingen/Germany, Smart City Areal Wolf, Basel, Co-Next in Muttenz, Klybeck-Quartier Basel, Innovationszentrum Olten. In her understanding, the dialogue between science and practical work and the integration of different interdisciplinary actors are the hub of her work.

Key competencies:

• Expert for New Regional Policy (NRP) in different regional contexts
• Expert for rural regions and cross-border cooperation
• Expert in Innovation (intersectoral)

Since 2/2017	Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
5/2011-2/2017	Post-Doc Research Associate, Institute of Geography & Centre for Regional Economic Development (CRED), University of Berne
04/2016-08/2016	Research Program Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, BC, Canada
10/2014-11/2014	Visiting Researcher at the Turku Business School (Prof. Päivi Oinas), Finland
2008-2010	Lecturer in Human Geography, Basel University, Switzerland
06/2008	Ph.D. in Human Geography, Basel University, Switzerland
10/2006-06/2010	Economist at BAK Basel Economics, Basel, Switzerland
03/2003-10/2006	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, Basel University, Switzerland
03/2003	Master in Geography, Economics & Business Administration, University of Stuttgart, Germany
2000-2002	Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Economic Geography, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Teaching

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC)

Main Consulting Areas

• Innovation
• Regional economic development

Themen

• Innovation, Innovation systems, Entrepreneurship, Cluster and Regional development
• Human Capital and Regional attractiveness
• Sustainability & Resilience
• Valuation

(Selection)

2025	First symposium «Full Circle» about circular economy
2024- 2027	SwissRenov - Circularity and resource conservation in the rehabilitation of buildings in Switzerland, an opportunity for brownfields In cooperation with various Swiss universities and partners.
2023- 2027	Skill Resilience 4EU (Horizon project with EU, Swiss partner)
2021- 2022	«Smart Region 2030: Perspektiven für die Nordwestschweiz und den trinationalen Metropolitanraum Basel»
2020	Swiss partner in the Interreg Upper Rhine project «Clim’Ability Design» Design and implementation of the Urban Living Lab CO-Next, Muttenz/canton BL Transformation of the «Technologiepark Kaisermatt» canton Aargau Transformation Areal Gare Sud, Delémont, canton Jura (follow-up)
2019	Areal Delémont Gare-Sud
2018	Innovationszentrum Olten
2017	Forum Regionalentwicklung Schweiz: Intelligentes Management von Unternehmensdaten für Wirtschaftsförderer
2017-2018	PHR Programm (ARE und SECO): Stadt-Land Verflechtungen in der Hauptstadtregion Schweiz
2015-2017	Regional governance and community adaptation to climate change, Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
2015	Cluster and Innovation Strategy 2016+ for the Canton of Berne
2014-2017	AGORA Project INNO-Futures (SNSF)
2014	UNIBE Research Grant (University of Bern): Resilience in resource-based communities
2013	Clusterentwicklung in Abhängigkeit spezifischer Standortfaktoren. (Cluster development as a function of specific regional externalities in the border region of Basel). Commissioned by metrobase
2012-2013	INTERREG IVC: Brain Flow
2012	Quality of life for entrepreneurs in the Basel region (Lebensqualität aus Perspektive von unternehmerisch tätigen Personen in der Region Basel). Commissioned by the Canton of Basel-Stadt
2010-2012	ESPON: Success for Convergence Regions Economies (SURE)
2004	European Science Foundation (ESF): Technology, Talent and Tolerance in European Cities: A comparative analysis. (Swiss Partner; project coordinated by Prof. Björn Asheim, Lund)

Reviewer for

Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Cities, disP – The Planning Review, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Growth and Change, Journal of Urban Affairs, Regional Studies