Dr. Petra Schaper-Rinkel is a political scientist and joined AIT in 2009 as a Senior Researcher. Her research interests include technology and innovation policy, science and technology studies, technology assessment, foresight and governance of future technologies. Recent projects include studies of the impact of science, technology and innovation policy, and evaluation of technology assessment and foresight in the governance of emerging technologies.
Dr. Matthias Weber is Head of Business Unit ” Research, Technology and Innovation Policy” . He is a trained engineer, political scientist and economist. His focus of work lies on the fields of foresight and strategy development in science, technology and innovation policy, transition to sustainable socio-technical systems, governance of science, technology and innovation policy in the European Union. Among others, he has been involved in the EU-level foresight projects IPTS Futures, FISTERA, Manufacting Visions, Future of Manufacturing and the European Foresight Monitoring Network EFMN. He is acting as a policy advisor to the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology and to the City of Vienna. At EU level Matthias Weber holds the position of Chairman of the Scientific Steering Committee of ETEPS (European Techno-Economic Policy Support Network) and has been member of various EC advisory groups, currently the High-level expert group “ERA rationales”.
Dr. Joachim Klerx is an economist and philosopher by training. He has several years of experience in the development and implementation of innovation- and technology-related information systems for policy-making and in STI indicators. As part of these activities, he has been dealing with text-based analysis tools as well. Over the past three years he has designed an innovation information system for the City of Vienna, and contributed to a project dealing with the development of new sectoral efficiency indicators for R&D funding. Other areas of expertise are in agent-based modelling and simulation, in particular of political agents.
Dr. Marianne Hörlesberger is a mathematician by training. She has been working for systems research since 2003. Over the past few years she has been specialising in the application and development of bibliometric tools and network analysis, applied to the early identification and monitoring of new developments in science and technology. Co-word analysis as a tool for the identification of patterns in heterogeneous text data is one of her specific fields of expertise.
