Professor Lars Coenen
City of Melbourne Chair of Resilient Cities
University of Melbourne
Professor Lars Coenen is the inaugural ‘City of Melbourne Chair of Resilient Cities’. Lars seeks to strengthen Melbourne’s role as a leader in knowledge based urban resilience and leverage opportunities for collaborative research between universities and cities.
Lars is an interdisciplinary scholar cross-cutting the fields of innovation studies and economic geography. He is well-known internationally for his work on regional and urban innovation and, more recently, for his pioneering research on the geography of environmental innovation and sustainability transitions. His research interests converge around the geography of innovation: where does innovation happen and why there? What makes cities and regions innovative and to what purpose? What is the role of policy to foster place-based development and innovation?
Upcoming Events
Monday16Dec2019
- 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
The Australian Paradox – Smart, Resilient Cities in a Rich but Simple Economy?
Free Public LectureHarvard’s Atlas of Economic Complexity classifies Australia as a profoundly simple economy, “at risk of getting increasingly dumber”. At the same time, Australian cities rank consistently as some of the world’s most liveable and technologically sm...
PresentersProfessor Lars Coenen
- 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm