A warm welcome from all the members of the EURECIA project team!
We have written a little bit about ourselves here to introduce you to our research backgrounds and current interests. Our specific roles within EURECIA are described in the about pages describing the project’s concepts, challenges, aims and outputs.
You can also find details about our current working papers, conference papers and forthcoming publications within our website’s resource centre. From time to time we’ll be posting feedback from our meetings and various opinion pieces within our news blog. Please do take a look! Or why not subscribe to our RSS feed?
We will also all be attending the EURECIA project’s final conference in March 2012 so do check back for news and further details if you’d like to attend and discuss our research with us in person. It’s going to be an interesting event!
If there’s any aspect of our research that you would like to discuss with us, please do contact us.
Dr Maria Nedeva
Dr Maria Nedeva is the coordinator and principal investigator leading the EURECIA project team. She is currently based at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research within the Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester (UK).
Maria is a Senior Lecturer and former Associate Dean with substantial experience in quantitative and qualitative methods and general social science methodologies. She has undertaken evaluation programmes for national and EU bodies and has advised national governments on research system change. Maria also headed an international team to produce a structured review of evidence related to the early debates about whether to establish some kind of ‘European Research Council’. Her review supported the work of F.Mayor’s expert advisory group.
She has participated in and coordinated a wide range of research projects and is an international expert who has published on change of national research systems, science and change, and transformations of the higher education sector.
Prof Dietmar Braun
Dietmar Braun is a Professor of Political Science at the IEPI (Institut d’études Politiques et Internationales) within the University of Lausanne. Dietmar is also a research councillor at the Swiss National Science Foundation and has been the editor of the Swiss Political Science Review.
His research focuses particularly on research funding policies and funding agencies. Dietmar is an international expert on political science, with broad experience on science and governance issues. He has also published on the intermediary roles of research councils within different research systems.
Prof Jakob Edler
Jakob Edler is a Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy and the Research Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Jakob has conducted many projects for various European governments, the EC and the OECD. He has published and researched on topics such as: evaluation; comparative internationalisation strategies and processes; ERA developments; European knowledge dynamics; research technology and development (RTD); science, technology and innovation (STI) policy; and science governance. He was formerly Head of the Department Innovation Systems and Policy at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI, Germany).
Daniela Frischer
Daniela Frischer is working for the WWTF (Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds) and on the EC FP6 INNO-DEAL project on best practice examples for start-up and spin-off financing.
She has studied communication and political sciences, and has worked on innovation funding and evaluation.
Michaela Glanz
Michaela Glanz is a researcher based at the WWTF (Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds). Michaela has been engaged in the EC FP6 EURO-COOP project, exploring regional innovation policies and their impacts. She was formerly a researcher at the Vienna Interdisciplinary Research Unit for the Study of (Techno) Science and Society, exploring technology assessment and universities’ role in the knowledge society. Michaela has methodological competences in empirical social research, including quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis. Her current PhD study is on social studies of science and technology.
Dr Jochen Glaser
Dr Jochen Glaser is a senior researcher at the Center for Technology and Society of the Technical University Berlin and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. His major research interest concerns the interaction of epistemic and institutional factors in the shaping of the conduct and content of research at individual, group and scientific community levels. Jochen also has a keen interest in qualitative research methodologies and developing empirical methods for science studies. He is currently investigating the responses of German universities to evaluations, the impact of changing authority relations on conditions for scientific innovation, and bibliometric methods for measuring the diversity of research. Jochen’s key publications include: Wissenschaftliche Produktionsgemeinschaften: Die Soziale Ordnung der Forschung, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2006 and Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing authority relationships in the sciences and their consequences for intellectual innovation (forthcoming 2010, Oxford University Press, edited with Richard Whitley and Lars Engwall).
Prof Philippe Laredo
Philippe Laredo is Directeur de Recherche at the Ecole des Ponts in Paris (LATTS, Laboratoire Territoires, Techniques et Sociétés) and a Professor at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Philippe researches knowledge dynamics and breakthrough innovation, and research and innovation policies. He co-edited the book, Research and Innovation Policies in the New Global Economy and co-edited a special journal issue of Higher Education Policy regarding the evolving missions of universities. He currently coordinates the PRIME Network of Excellence. He has carried out many indicators studies and published widely in journals, e.g. Scientometrics and Science and Public Policy.
Dr Grit Laudel
Dr Grit Laudel is a sociologist of science and works as a Senior Researcher at the Science System Assessment (SciSA) unit of the Rathenau Institute. Grit has published on early research careers, on brain drain, and on the adaptation of researchers to funding conditions and to evaluations. A second focus of Grit Laudel’s work is methodology. She has been working on specific methodological problems of science studies including interviewing scientists and the utilisation of bibliometric methods for sociological investigations of science.
Dr Terttu Luukkonen
Dr Terttu Luukkonen is a Head of Unit at ETLA. Terttu has previously held positions with the Technical Research Centre of Finland (as Chief Research Scientist, and Director of VTT Group for Technology Studies) and the Academy of Finland. She is Docent at three Finnish universities and has held visiting fellowships in the UK and France. Terttu has pursued research in science studies, science and technology policy, and innovation activities. She has also undertaken various studies on the national impacts of the EU research policy. Terttu has an impressive track record and significant reputation in the EU and beyond for her research in bibliometrics and citation analysis. She also serves on various journal editorial boards. Terttu has been on various expert advisory and assessment bodies, and been a consultant to the EU, OECD, UN ECE and Nordic Council of Ministers. She has also been invited to consult or assess science and innovation policies by various European governments.
Dr Barend van der Meulen
Dr Barend van der Meulen is currently a Senior Researcher in the Science System Assessment (SciSA) group of the Rathenau Institute and responsible for the research on quality and evaluation of research and on internationalisation of science and science policy. His research includes comparative analyses of research systems and science policies, with attention given to the role of intermediary bodies and the effects of the Europeanisation of research. Barend develops tools for science and technology policy, including Foresight and the evaluation of research and research performing organisations. He was an active member of the PRIME Network of Excellence and is director of the international annual R&D Evaluation Course at Twente. Barend has published on the strategic functions and reshaping of national research councils around Europe.
Dr Yanuar Nugroho
Dr Yanuar Nugroho is a Research Associate at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, addressing: technological innovation and the adoption and diffusion of innovations in the third sector (non-governmental and not-for-profit organisations); innovation and sustainable development; new communication media and social change; and knowledge dynamics. Yanuar works both with quantitative and qualitative approaches including: Foresight; large scale off- and on-line surveys; focus groups and workshops; and social network analysis. He has published in Information, Communication and Society, Sociological Research Online, International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Social Change and Foresight and written working papers with the Brooks World Poverty Institute and the ESRC Centre for Research in Economics Social and Cultural Change. Yanuar has been involved in EC sponsored research projects including: Service Innovation; Annual Digest for Industrial Research; PRIME Forum (EU-FP6); E-Skills Foresight Europe; Mapping Innovation Policy in Services; InnoGRIPS; RINDICATE; iKNOW; MORE; EFP; and Sustainable Consumption Institute funded research on the future of EU biofuels.
Dr Michael Stampfer
Dr Michael Stampfer is Managing Director of the WWTF. Michael was formerly responsible for Strategic Planning, Quality Management and was Head of the RTD Programme Management Group at Technologie Impulse Gesellschaft (TIG, a public agency, now part of FFG). He set up the K plus Programme (Austria’s largest research funding programme) and was formerly responsible for strategy issues and programme funding in the Federal Ministry for Science and Research. Michael has been involved in numerous EU projects and initiatives and has published on various aspects of research, technology and development (RTD) policy, including a book on the history of Austrian research policy and funding. He is a founding member and former coordinator of the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Evaluation.
Dr Duncan Thomas
Dr Duncan Thomas is a Research Fellow, Visitors Coordinator and EBL Fellow (enquiry-based learning) at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Duncan trained as a physicist before working for the former Thorn EMI Central Research Laboratories, central R&D facility in London as an electronic engineer. He later returned to academia and trained as a social scientist. Duncan has accumulated significant experience using qualitative research methods. He has been a principal investigator on numerous projects for national and European clients, including a focus on both ERA-NETs and general European research and knowledge dynamics. Duncan has also led research projects and advised the UK Government on research policy, innovation and sustainability issues in water and health-related sectors.
Prof Richard Whitley
Richard Whitley is Professor of Organisational Sociology at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, and has held visiting professorships at universities in Hong Kong, Japan and the Netherlands. Recent authored and edited books include: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis (2010), Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities (2007), Changing Capitalisms? (2005), The Multinational Firm (2001), Divergent Capitalisms (1999) (all published by Oxford University Press), and Competing Capitalisms (2002) (Edward Elgar). He has also edited two special issues of Organization Studies, one on ‘The Dynamics of Innovation Systems’ (2000) and one on ‘Institutions, Markets and Organisations’ (2005) as well as one of the Journal of Management Studies on ‘The Changing Multinational Firm’ (2003). In 1998-99 he served as the Chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies and in 1999-2000 was the President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics. In 2007 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
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