About 6CP - Steering Committee Members

Georg Panholzer (Austria)

Georg Panholzer works for the Department of International Innovation and Technology at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs. He previously worked for the Department of Small and Medium Enterprises at the Ministry on a Community Initiative for SMEs within the framework of EU-structural funding. Prior to this, he served with the Austrian Federal Economic Chambre in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mag. Panholzer was educated in Vienna at the University of Business Administration and Economics where he earned a Masters Degree in International Economics. He has been a member of the 6CP since 1998.

• International RTD co-operation
• Integration of Central and Eastern Europe
• Innovation/Small and Medium Enterprises

Contact details:
Division for International Science and Technology
Austrian Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
Stubenring 1
A-1010 Vienna
Tel: 43 (0)1-71 100 5803
Email: georg.panholzer@bmwa.gv.at
Website: http://www.bmwa.gv.at

Wolfgang Polt (Austria)

Wolfgang Polt is head of the Vienna office of the Institute of Technology and Regional Policy (InTeReg) of Joanneum Research Ltd. (since 2000). He is also lecturer for Industrial Economics and Technology Policy at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna. He previously worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Technology Studies of the Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf. He was also a full time consultant for the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry of the OECD in Paris. He has carried out innovation research and evaluation studies both on national and international level. He has been carrying out evaluation projects for the European Commission, and for governments and public bodies in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Finland and Japan. He is a founding member of the Austrian 'Platform for Research and Technology evaluation'.

• Economics of Technology and Innovation
• Technology and Innovation Policy (Economic Analysis, Design and Evaluation)
• Innovation Systems Research

Contact details:
Institute for Technology and Regional Policy
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 76
A-1040 WIEN
Tel: 43 (0)1-58 520 2822
Email: wolfgang.polt@joanneum.at
Website: http://www.joanneum.ac.at/rtg

Paul Zeeuwts (Belgium)

Paul Zeeuwts is president of the Flemish Institute for the promotion of scientific and technological research in industry (IWT) since July 1991. Previously, he headed the cabinet of the Minister of Science Policy. Prior to that, he worked in both industry and public administration.

• R&D subsidies
• Technology diffusion and transfer

Contact details:
Institute for the promotion of innovation through science and technology in Flanders (IWT)
Bischoffsheimlaan 25
B-1000 Brussels
Tel: 32 (0)2-209 09 00
Email: pz@iwt.be
Website: http://www.iwt.be

Danielle Raspoet (Belgium)

Danielle Raspoet is head of the secretariat of the Flemish Science Policy Council, the advisory body of the Government and the Parliament of Flanders for Science and Technology Policy.

Contact details:
Flemish Science Policy Council
Ellips
Koning Albert II-laan 35, bus 13 (13th floor)
B-1030 Brussels
Tel: 32 (0)2-553 45 20
Email: danielle.raspoet@ewi.vlaanderen.be
Website: http://www.vrwb.be

A. Duff Mitchell (Canada)

Contact details:
Manufacturing Competitiveness Directorate, Industry Canada
235 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1A 0H5
Tel: Tel: 1 (0)613 954-7812; Fax: 1 (0)613-952-8988
Email: Mitchell.Duff@ic.gc.ca

Torsti Loikkanen (Finland)

Torsti Loikkanen is Customer Manager at VTT Technical Research of Finland. His research activities consist of industrial innovation, technology and innovation policy, technology foresight and assessment, and techno-economic analysis of sustainable development. His recent research relates to the challenges posed by globalization to national and European innovation policies, to the integration of industrial innovation and sustainable development, and to foresight of future energy technologies. He has participated in several national and international working groups on technology and innovation policy and sustainable development. He is a member of the Management Committee of the European Techno-Economic Policy Support (ETEPS) network carrying out innovation policy studies for the European Commission. He has also been a member of Executive Committee of The European Science and Technology Observatory (ESTO) of the European Commission and of Steering Committee of the international Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN). He has been a visiting scholar at TNO Centre for Technology and Policy Studies in the Netherlands and in Roskilde University in Denmark.

• Economics of industrial innovation and technology policy analysis
• Technology foresight and technology asessment
• Environmental economics, integration of innovation and sustainable development

Contact details:
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
P.O. Box 1000
FI-02044 VTT
Espoo, Finland
Tel: 358 20 722 4250
Email: Torsti.Loikkanen@vtt.fi
Website: http://www.vtt.fi

Steffen Kinkel (Germany)

Steffen Kinkel is head of the competence centre Industry and Service Innovations at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe. In 2003, he obtained a doctorate in business administration from Stuttgart University. His thesis was on "Dynamic Location Assessment and Strategic Location Controlling". Aside from research at Fraunhofer ISI, he lectures at Hohenheim University. The main focus of his research is international production and strategic controlling. Several of his numerous publications examine production offshoring, outsourcing, R&D offshoring and backsourcing activities as well as new methods for strategic location assessment of companies. He also focuses his research on strategic evaluation of innovative business and organisational models, holistic innovation management and measurement as well as ex-post and ex-ante evaluations of political measures and research programmes in production and service areas.

Fields of expertise:

• International production and strategic controlling
• Strategic evaluation of innovative business models
• Techno-organisational innovations

Contact details:
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI)
Breslauer Strasse 48
76139 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: 49 (0)721 68 09-311
Email: steffen.kinkel@isi.fraunhofer.de
Website: http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de

Jozsef Imre (Hungary)

Jozsef Imre is head of department at the National Office for Research and Technology in Hungary.

Contact details:
National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH)
H-1117 Budapest, Neumann J%uFFFDnos u. 1/C.
Tel: 36 (0)1-484-2500
Email: jozsef.imre@nkth.gov.hu
Website: http://www.nkth.gov.hu

Helena Acheson (Ireland)

Helena Acheson manages the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Awareness Division at the Industrial and Technological Policy Advisory Agency of Ireland (Forf%uFFFDs). This Division supports the Board of Forf%uFFFDs in providing advice to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the development and implementation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy for economic and social well-being.

Contact details:
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Awareness Division
Industrial and Technological Policy Advisory Agency (Forf%uFFFDs)
Wilton Park House, Wilton Place
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: 353 (0)1 607 3019
Email: helena.acheson@forfas.ie
Website: http://www forfas.ie

Rosa van der Linden (The Netherlands)

Contact details:
Directorate-General for Innovation Policy
Ministry of Economic Affairs
P.O.Box 20101, 2500 EC, The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel: 31 (0)70 379 6584
Email: R.M.vanderLinden@minez.nl
Website: http://www.minez.nl

Jos Leyten (The Netherlands)

Dr. Jos Leijten is head of the Innovation Policy Group of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Until 2005, he was research director of TNO-Strategy, Technology an Policy (STB). In 2000-2001 he was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville. He studied geography and urban and regional planning at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (1975) and received his PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam for a thesis on technology assessment and technology policy (1991). He built and headed the ICT policy research group at TNO and was acting director of TNO-STB from 1995 to 1996. For most of his career he worked in a highly multidisciplinary research environment. He advised and published on technology assessment and foresight; on economic, social and public policy issues in telecommunications and the media; on political and policy-making processes in the information society, on trends in R&D and the management of R&D-institutions. He is a member of the steering committee of the "6 Countries Programme", elected president of the European Techno-Economic Policy Support (ETEPS) network and an active member of several other innovation policy related networks. Recently he was asked to become a member of an expert group on the future of key actors in the European Research Area.

• Technology assessment and foresight
• Social and public policy issues in ICT
• Management of R↦D institutions

Contact details:
TNO - Innovation Policy Group
P.O. Box 6030, 2600 JA Delft
The Netherlands
Tel: 31 (0) 15 2695422
Email: jos.leijten@tno.nl
Website: http://www.tno.nl

Neville Arendse (South Africa)

Contact details:
Department of Science and Technology
PRIVATE BAG X894 0001 Pretoria, South Africa
Tel: 27 (0)128414373, Fax: 27 (0) 128414382
Email: neville.arendse@dst.gov.za

Lennart Elg (Sweden)

Lennart Elg is an analyst at the Strategy Development Division of the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). He is also member of the Swedish delegation to the OECD/CSTP and the Swedish representative in the OECD/CSTP/TIP group.

• Innovation and technology policy analysis
• Research on innovation and technology policy
• Technology foresight

Contact details:
Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)
Mater Samuelsgatan 56
10158 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: 46 (0)8-47 33 000
Email: lennart.elg@vinnova.se
Website: http://www.vinnova.se

Caroline Jacobs (United Kingdom)

Caroline Jacobs works for the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

Contact details:
Innovation Strategy Team
Department of Trade & Industry
151 Buckingham Palace Road
London - SW1W 9SS, United Kingdom
Tel: 44 (0)207 215 4100
Email: Caroline.Jacobsi@dti.gsi.gov.uk
Website: http://www.innovation.gov.uk

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