Prof. Dr. René Kemp
| Professorial Fellow Research group(s): 5. Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Transitions (coordinator) Professor René Kemp is an eco-innovation and sustainability transition expert. He studied the rise of electric mobility, the energy transition, waste management and the transition to a circular economy (as a researcher and project leader). His PhD on Environmental Policy and Technical Change (published by Edward Elgar) received great acclaim. He wrote seminal publications on strategic niche management, transition management and reflexive governance for sustainable development. With 43749 citations and an h-index of 83, he belongs to the top 0.2% researchers in the world in the field of environmental sciences. As a critical pluralist, he is a strong advocate of multi-method analysis and the use of multidisciplinary frameworks. He held research positions at DRIFT, TNO and Twente University and worked at STEP in Oslo (as research director) and IPTS (Seville), Harvard (Boston), Foscari University (Venice), SPRU (Sussex), CIRUS (Zurich), France Telecom (Paris) and AIRC (Australia) as visiting researcher. At the Maastricht Sustainability Institute of Maastricht University (formerly ICIS), he is professor of Innovation and Sustainable Development (since 2010). He is advisory editor of Research Policy, editor of Sustainability Science and editor of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. For the Inno4SD network, he led the work on measuring eco-innovation for a green economy. He served as advisory board member of the Eco-Innovation Observatory (2010 - 2014) and member of the working group "Understanding and Managing Industrial Transitions" of the European Commission (2019-2020). At Maastricht University, he co-leads the Maastricht Observatory on Resilient, Responsible & Sustainable Enterprise and Economy (MORSE) and the UNU-MERIT theme on social entrepreneurship/innovation and sustainability transitions.
He likes jazz, movies, football (as fan of PSV Eindhoven) and novels. He agrees with Lewis Mumford that "the true reward of labor is in life-wages: self-education, self-expression, self-government; mastery and satisfaction in the job, not comfort and luxuries as a relief from the job" (Mumford Interpretations and Forecasts).
In the last 10 years, he developed a keen interest in the humanisation of the economy through trans-formative social innovation. There is a video for those interested in his views and an interview. For the Dutch government he developed the steering model of transition management, together with Jan Rotmans and Marjolein van Asselt. The basic philosophy is that of goal-oriented modulation of dynam-ics. For the Environment Council of July 2004, he wrote a policy note on strategies for eco-efficient in-novation, which fed into the Council's conclusions.
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