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TNO is one of Europes largest research organisations (5500 staff). The TNO Institute of Strategy, Technology and Policy (TNO-STB) is one of the 14 institutes of Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). It is a multidisciplinary group of about 50 researchers and consultants working on the longer-term problems and challenges of technological, economic and societal innovation. Together, the researchers of TNO-STB have in-depth knowledge of the interactions between technology, economics, markets, organisational structures, environment, culture and policy. And they know how to turn this knowledge into useful visions, concepts and strategies. TNO-STB has fast access to specialized knowledge in most areas of technology and its applications in the other TNO institutes. This includes information technologies and their applications, telecommunications, human factors and product design. TNO-STB has a vast network of relations with similar institutes throughout Europe. About 25% of the work is carried out in the framework of a 4-year strategic plan that is negotiated and agreed with the Dutch government. All other work is done in research or consultancy contracts with a wide range of clients.

Domain Expertise

1. Foresight, analysis and evaluation of science-, technology- and industrial policies
2. Policies and strategies for Life Sciences (including bio-informatics)
3. Policies and strategies in information, communications and media
4. Policies and strategies for sustainable development (including ICTs and mobility)

TNO-STB’s team work

Popa-CTDA Project leader

Dr Carlos Montalvo is Senior Advisor for Innovation Policy and Management at TNO-STB. He completed a BSc in Electro-mechanical Engineering and MPhil in Industrial Economics in Mexico. He subsequently completed a DPhil in Science and Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex (UK). He has extensive experience in industry and R&D as an engineer and project manager in environmental technologies. Previous to joining TNO-STB, Dr Montalvo held a number of engineering and management positions in industry and most recently held the post of Economic Affairs Officer, at the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. While being an active member of the TNO-STB research team in sustainable innovation, his current research activities and interest focus on the application of behavioural and system dynamics models to explore the interaction between regulatory systems and technological change in relation to policy design in cleaner production. He is currently member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cleaner Production and leader of the ESTO Project ‘Industrial Clean Technologies Diffusion’. In 2002 Edward Elgar published his latest book Environmental Policy and Technical Change: Why firms adopt or reject new technologies?

Dr. René Kemp is senior advisor of TNO-STB and senior research fellow at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) in Maastricht. He studied econometrics at Tilburg University (honours) and has been working since 1988 on innovation and environmental policy issues, as an economist and policy analyst. He worked in Norway as the research director of STEP.He obtained a PhD in economics from Maastricht University, on the topic of environmental policy and technical change. His PhD was published by Edward Elgar in 1997 and is widely viewed as an important contribution on the topic. In 1998 he served as a member of the ETAN group advising the Commission about the RTD implications of climate change and in 2000 he advised the Dutch government on transition management for sustainability. He is the supervisor of 3 PhD students at MERIT working on the topic of technology and sustainable development. He has published extensively in refereed journals and books and is an international acclaimed expert on the topic of environmental innovation. He is member of the commissioning panel of the Sustainable Technologies Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK and member of programme committee of the Energy research programme of NWO in the Netherlands. He has a broad range of expertise, covering various sectors (manufacturing, transport, energy, waste), which stems from many research projects he has been working on, as a researcher and project leader.