Johannes Willem "Johan" Schot was born on 4 February 1961 and is a Dutch historian working in the field of science and technology policy.
10 Facts About Johan Schot
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Johan Schot is the Academic Director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium and former Director of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.
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Johan Schot was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.
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Johan Schot completed his Phd at the University of Twente in 1991 on the 'Societal Shaping of Technical Change: Constructive Technology Assessment as a form of Luddism' and then he served as an Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor at Twente until 1999.
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Johan Schot was made part-time Professor in the Social History of Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1998 and subsequently at Twente in 1999.
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In January 2014, Johan Schot was appointed Director of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.
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In January 2019, Johan Schot returned to the Netherlands to start his new role as Professor in Global Comparative History at the Centre for Global Challenges at Utrecht University.
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Johan Schot was key in establishing a new framework for research and policy around sustainable technologies, called Strategic Niche Management, building on his earlier influential work on the Constructive Technology Assessment framework.
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Johan Schot's work has greatly benefited from an emphasis on creative collaborations across borders and disciplines which open up innovative new research agendas.
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Johan Schot has created and pioneered large scale collaborations, in which many scholars and practitioners from business, government and societal groups work productively together.