Bart Verspagen – Academic CV
Education:
• PhD in 1992: PhD from the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), Faculty of Economics, University of Limburg (now Maastricht University). Title of dissertation: Uneven Growth Between Interdependent Economies. An Evolutionary View on Technology Gaps, Trade and Growth (published by Avebury). Supervisor: Luc Soete.
• Studied Economics from 1984 until 1988 at the University of Limburg (now Maastricht University) in Maastricht, The Netherlands, graduated cum laude.
Academic Positions:
• 2020 – present: Full professor of Macroeconomics of Innovation and New Technologies, MERIT, Maastricht University.
• 2012 – 2020: Director, UNU-MERIT & Dean, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance.
• 2008 – 2020: Full Professor of International Economics, Maastricht University.
• 2001 – 2011: Visiting Professor (‘Professor-II’) at the University of Oslo, Centre for Technology and Culture (TIK).
• 1998 – 2000: Research Professor of ‘Economics and Technology’ at MERIT, Maastricht University (0.4 fte) and Research Professor of ‘Economics and Technology’ at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Technology Management (0.6 fte).
• 1998 – 2008: Full Professor of ‘Economics and Technology’ at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Technology Management.
• 1993 – 1998: Research-fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), research conducted at MERIT. Topic: evolutionary growth models.
Research interests:
The economics of technological change and innovation, economic growth and development, macroeconomics, evolutionary approaches to economics, international trade, structural change, technology spillovers, science and technology indicators, history of technological change and economic history.
Academic Awards:
• Honorary Doctorate degree from University of Oslo, 2014
• Best paper award in Technological Forecasting and Social Change 1999 (with Ivo De Loo).
• ‘Gunnar Myrdal Prize’ for PhD dissertation, 1993, awarded by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
• SNS-Bank Limburg Prize for the best PhD dissertation at the University of Limburg, 1993 (awarded by a local Maastricht Bank)
International Experience:
• Visiting fellowship at the Norwegian Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo, Norway, 2007/2008.
• Co-ordinator Quantitative methods at Cicalics PhD Academy, Beijing, China, September 2005.
• Visiting professor at Bocconi University, Milan, (Italy, 2005).
• Visiting professor at the University of Oslo (Norway, 2001 – 2011).
• Visiting lecturer at Johannes Keppler University, Linz (Austria, 1998).
• Visiting fellowship at New York University (1996).
• Visiting lecturer at the University of Aalborg (Denmark, 1995).
• Visiting fellowship International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria, 1994).
• Visiting fellowship at the Norwegian Institute for Foreign Affairs (NUPI, Oslo, 1991).
Other Activities:
• Managing Editor Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2019 – present
• Managing Editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (published by Elsevier, 1995 – 2009), Associate Editor of the Review on Income and Wealth (1996-2002), Associate Editor of Regional Studies (1998 and onwards)
• Member of the Advisory Committee on Science and Technology Indicators, Statistics Netherlands.
• Coordinator of the research project ‘Technology, Economic Integration and Social Cohesion’, sponsored by the TSER-programme (4th framework programme) of the European Commission (project including 14 institutes from eight European Countries), 1996-1999.
• Evaluator of various proposals to the EU 5th and 6th Framework Programmes, Brussels, 1999-2004.
• Director of the MERIT part of the MERIT/UNU Intech Ph.D. programme, 1997-1998.
• Member of the Board of the Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies (ECIS), 1998 – 2000.
• Member of the Board of the Department of Technology and Policy, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2001 – 2002, acting chairman for half a year during 2001.
• Member of the programme committee ‘Society and Electronic Highways’ at the Dutch research council NWO, 2002 – 2004
• Member of the selection committee for the postdoc programme VIDI at the Dutch research council NWO, 2002 and 2003.