Researcher Profile

Field: Institutional Change and Policy Instruments

Main Research: R&I Policies for urban transition

Experience:

• 2019-now: Senior Expert Advisor
  AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH / Austria
• 2013-2019: Scientist
  AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH / Austria
• 2013-2015: Strategic Policy Coordinator
  Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology / Austria
• 2010-2013: Research Fellow
  Joanneum Research GMBH - POLICIES / Austria
• 2006-2009: Research Fellow
  Leibniz University of Hannover - Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography / Germany

• 2016-now: Member of the Extended Management Board of the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe
• 2016-now: Steering Board Member of the Urban Europe Research Alliance
• 2018-now: Policy Coordinator of the SET-Plan Action 3.2 on Smart Cities and Communities

• The Janus-faced Economy: Hong Kong firms as intermediaries between global customers and local producers in the electronics industry
  Author(s): Meyer, S., Schiller, D. and Revilla Diez, J.
  Journal: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 100(2), pp. 224-235 (2009)
• The localization of electronics manufacturing in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China: do global implants put down local roots?
  Author(s): Meyer, S., Schiller, D. and Revilla Diez, J.
  Journal: Applied Geography, 32(1), pp. 119-129 (2012)
• Internationalisation of research and development activities of small and medium-sized enterprises in Austria: Strategic drivers for spatial organisation
  Author(s): Meyer, S. and Berger, M.
  Journal: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 58(1), pp. 1-17 (2014)
• One country, two systems: How regional institutions shape governance modes in the greater Pearl River Delta, China
  Author(s): Meyer, S. and Revilla Diez, J.
  Journal: Papers in Regional Science, 94(4), pp. 891-900 (2015)
• Urban attraction policies for international academic talent: Munich and Vienna in comparison
  Author(s): Reiner, C., Meyer, S. and Sardadvar, S.
  Journal: Cities, 61, pp. 27–35 (2017)

• Several Lectures in Economic Geography (2009)
  Leibniz University of Hannover 2006; 2007; 2008

• Project homepage JPI Urban Europe
• Project homepage SET-Plan Action 3.2 on Smart Cities
• Project homepage ERA-LEARN
• Project homepage Umsetzungsplan Energieforschungsinitiative #Mission 2030
• Publications AIT publications database
• CV as pdf