News

(2013) Inaugural lecture Wijnand Ijsselstein

Wijnand Ijsselstein, from the Human-Technology Interaction group will give his inaugural speech on May 17th, at 4pm.

(2013) UAM-Accenture Award for paper by Matthijs Janssen and Carolina Castaldi

The paper "Management Innovation and Firm Performance in Service Innovation Management" by Matthijs Janssen and Carolina Castaldi (School of Innovation Sciences), co-authored with Alex Alexiev and Pim den Hertog (University of Amsterdam) has been awarded the 2012 UAM-Accenture Award of the Chair in Economics and Management of Innovation of the University of Madrid.  This year's topic was "Innovation in services".

(2013) Biofuels workshop

(2012) Ecis seminar Rick van der Ploeg

Former Secretary of State Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford University) will give the last Ecis seminar of the year on Thursday 6 December 2012, 12:30-13:30. The topic will be the political economy of climate change.

(2012) Keynote Cees Midden at ICP 2012

Cees Midden will give a keynote speech at the 2012 International Congress of Psychology (ICP) in Cape Town on the topic of Persuasive Technology.

(2012) Mini-workshop on the Product Characteristics approach in innovation studies

Koen Frenken organises a mini-workshop on the product characteristics approach in innovation studies with presentations by Paolo Saviotti, Wybo Houkes and Adrien Querbes. It will take place in the IPO building on Tuesday 9 October in the afternoon.

(2012) Values and Norms in Modeling (VaNiM) 2012 Conference

On June 25th and 26th the group of Philosophy of Technology will host the 2012 VaNiM conference. The program can be found here.

(2012)  Evolutionary Modelling reading group

A reading group on Evolutionary Modelling started in January 2012.  It will continue after the summer break. For more information contact Koen Frenken.  Topics and place will be announced through the regular weekly Ecis email.

(2011)  Mini-workshop Evolutionary Economics with Luigi Marengo and Isabel Almudi

Luigi Marengo (Sant'Anna, Pisa) and Isabel Almudi (Univ Zaragoza) will give a seminar on Monday 12 December 2011. Time: 15h30-17h30, Place: IPO 0.11.

(2011)  Workshop on Persuasive Technology for Health and Wellness

Ecis organises a workshop on Persuasive Technology for Health and Wellness on November 28-29, 2011. Programme can be found here. If you wish to participate, please send an email to Felicitas Kraemer f [dot] kraemer [at] tue [dot] nl

(2011)  TU/e appoints Rosalind Williams as distinguished professor

The Eindhoven University of Technology has appointed Professor Rosalind Williams as distinguished professor for a period of three years. Professor Williams holds the chair of History of Science and Technology at MIT. Within Ecis, she will participate in the research program `Modern Societies in Transition´, led by Johan Schot.

(2011)  Paolo Saviotti guest professor at Ecis

Professor Paolo Saviotti has accepted a guest professorship at Ecis from 2012 to 2014. Professor Saviotti has published extensively on technical change from an evolutionary perspective. Within Ecis, he is appointed to will participate in the research program `Technology Flows, Knowledge Economy & Economic Performance´, led by Koen Frenken.

(2011)  ECIS receives high scores in research assessment

ECIS research programmes have received high scores in the latest research assessment exercise by the QANU, with an average score of 4.37 on a scale between 1 to 5. See the full report here.