Matthias Weber is Head of Center for Innovation Systems & Policy at Austrian Institute of Technology AIT in Vinna and Visiting Professor at LISIS, Université Gustave Eiffel (UGE). He has degrees in process engineering and political sciences, and a doctorate in economics, all assigned by University of Stuttgart. Before jointing AIT, he had been working for several years at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Italy and Spain and at the University of Manchester.
His research interests cover the transformation of socio-technical systems in a variety of domains, currently in particular in the urban context, the design, governance, monitoring and evaluation of transformative and mission-oriented innovation policies, and the embedding of foresight in policy-making. He was coordinator of and contributor to several European research and policy advisory projects over the past years, including RIF (Research and Innovation Futures 2030. From explorative to transformative Scenarios), RISIS (Research Infrastructure for Science and Innovation Policy Studies), BOHEMIA (Beyond the Horizon: Foresight in Support of the EU’s Future Policy on Research and Innovation). Currently he is director of a framework contract on Foresight on Demand in support the European Commission’s new framwork programme for research and innovation Horizon Europe. Matthias was member of several European Commission high-level expert groups on foresight and on research and innovation policy, and is currently member of the High-Level Group on Innovation Policy, advising the European Council, and chair of the ERA 2030 experts group of German the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research.
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Matthias Weber est directeur du Centre des Systèmes et Politiques d’Innovation à AIT Austrian Institute of Technology et Professeur invité au LISIS, Université Gustave Eiffel (UGE). Il a des diplomes universitaire en Ingénierie des Procédés Industriels et en Science Politiques, aussi qu’un doctorat en Économie Politique, tous délivrés par l’IUniversité de Stuttgart. Avant de joindre AIT, il a travaillé plusieurs années au Centre Commun de Recherche de la Commission Européenne en Italy et en Espagne et à l’Université de Manchester.
Sa recherche est focalisée sur la transformation des systèmes socio-technique dans une varieté de domaines, actuellement dans le contexte urbain, le développement, la gouvernance, le monitoring et l’evaluation de politiques d’innovation transformatives et axées sur des missions, et l’incorporation de la prospective dans l’élaboration des politiques.Il était coordinateur de plusieurs projets Européen de recherche et consultatifs, comme RIF (Research and Innovation Futures 2030. From explorative to transformative Scenarios), RISIS (Research Infrastructure for Science and Innovation Policy Studies), BOHEMIA (Beyond the Horizon: Foresight in Support of the EU’s Future Policy on Research and Innovation). Actuellement, il est aussi directeur d’un contrat-cadre “Foresight on Demand” qui sert d’appui à Horizon Europe, le nouveau programme cadre de recherche et innovation de la Commission Européenne. Matthias était membres de plusieurs groupes d’experts de la Commission Européenne, entre autres sur la prospective et les politique de recherche et d’innovation, et depuis 2016 il conseille le Conseil Européen comme membre du groupe d’expert sur politique d’innovation. En 2019/2020, il était président du groupe d’expert sur l’Espace Européen de Recherche 2030, installé par le ministère d’éducation et de recherche allemand.
Selected publications:
Wanzenböck, I., Wesseling, J.H., Frenken, K., Hekkert, M.P., Weber, K.M. (2020): A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy: Alternative pathways through the problem–solution space, Science and Public Policy
Schartinger, D., Rehfeld, D., Weber, M., Rhomberg, W. (2020): Green social innovation–towards a typology, European Planning Studies 28 (5), 1026-1045
Havas, A., Weber, K.M. (2017): The ‘fit’between forward-looking activities and the innovation policy governance sub-system: A framework to explore potential impacts, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 115, 327-337
Weber, K.M., Truffer, B. (2017): Moving innovation systems research to the next level, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 33(1), 101-121
Weber, K. M., Rohracher, H. (2012): Legitimizing research, technology and innovation policies for transformative change: Combining insights from innovation systems and multi-level perspective in a comprehensive ‘failures’ framework, Research Policy, 41(6), 1037-1047
Eriksson, E.A., Weber, K.M. (2008) : Adaptive Foresight: Navigating the complex landscape of policy strategies, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 75(4), 462-482