News

(2012)  Evolutionary Modelling reading group

A reading group on Evolutionary Modelling will start.  For more information contact Koen Frenken.  Meetings take place from 11h00 to 13h00 at 10 January, 31 January, 14 February, 6 March and 27 March.  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.

Welcome to ECIS

ECIS (Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies) is a research centre based at the School of Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Innovation is one of the fundamental factors affecting the economic performance of firms, regions and countries, and social welfare and the quality of life at large. The research mission of ECIS is to enhance our understanding of the sources, nature and effects of innovation processes. Our research aims to provide useful insights for an effective governance/management of innovation processes at regional, national and international levels. This research is structured by the following five major research programs:

• Modern Societies in Transition
• Philosophy of Technology: Ethics and Epistemology of Innovation
• Psychology of Human-Technology Interaction
• System Innovations & Sustainability Transitions
• Technology Flows, Knowledge Economy & Economic Performance

All these research programs look at innovation as a process involving a variety of interacting actors (firms, public research institutes, universities, consumers, users, etc.). Consequently, we adopt an interdisciplinary approach to innovation studies and one of the distinguishing features of ECIS is precisely to stimulate synergies and interactions between different disciplinary perspectives and methodologies both in the social sciences and humanities on innovation-related topics.

In order to stimulate such synergies, ECIS frequently organises workshops, seminars and conferences. More information on these events may be located on the "Seminars & Events" page of this website. Additionally, ECIS stimulates the creation of so-called "Synergy Projects" which aim to maximize inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge transfer between the five constitutive research programs.