René Kemp

René Kemp is a professor Innovation and Sustainable Development at ICIS. He is also a senior research fellow of Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation andTechnology (MERIT) in Maastricht. He holds a PhD in Economics from Maastricht University and MA in Econometrics from Tilburg University.

René Kemp has a broad range of expertise, covering various sectors (manufacturing, transport, energy, waste, health)—involving multiple methods of analysis. He views the world from an evolutionary institutionalist perspective.

For the Environment Council of July 2004 he wrote a policy note on strategies for eco-efficient innovation, which fed into the Council’s conclusions, and the Dutch government adopted his views on transition management for sustainability.

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