Prof.dr. Stefan Kuhlmann

Biography

Stefan Kuhlmann is Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STÉ™PS) and leader of the Twente Graduate School programme “Governance of Knowledge and Innovation”. He is an Editor of Research Policy and incoming (as from 2018) Academic Director of the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture, WTMC. For more than 35 years Stefan Kuhlmann has been involved in studies of research and technological innovation as social and political processes – with changing entrance points and perspectives. Since the late 1980s he has analysed science, research and innovation systems and public policies, focusing on the dynamics of governance. Until 2006 he held leading positions at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe/Germany, and was Professor of Innovation Policy Analysis at the Copernicus Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Kuhlmann studied Political Science and also History (University of Marburg, Germany; graduation 1978); 1986 he received the degree of PhD in political science (Dr.rer.pol.), at University of Kassel, Germany; 1998 he got a ‘habilitation’ (2nd doctorate) in Political Science at this university. Kuhlmann publishes widely in the field of research and innovation policy studies. He is an Editor of Research Policy (leading journal in the field, IF 2016: 4.495), an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy (IJFIP), on the Editorial Boards of Science and Public Policy, of Asian Research Policy, on the Editorial Advisory Board of Evaluation, The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, of the European Journal of Futures Research, and on the Editorial Board of Zeitschrift für Evaluation.

Research Interest

Political Science and also History,public policies