Experts from Europe

Prof. Dr. David Banister

Professor Banister is Professor of Transport Studies at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Great Britain.

Maurits Butter

Mr. Butter works for the TNO Innovation Policy Group in Delft, Netherlands.

Prof. Bo Edvardsson

Mr. Butter works for the TNO Innovation Policy Group in Delft, Netherlands.

Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi

Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi is EMEA Director of External Research, Microsoft Research in Geneva, Switzerland.>

Prof. Wilhelm Gruissem

Professor Gruissem of the ETH Zurich teaches at the Department of Biology - Plant Biotechnology in Zurich, Switzerland.

Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth

Dr. Kaiserswerth is Director of IBM Zurich Research Laboratory within IBM Research GmbH in Zurich, Switzerland.

Dr. Loet Leydesdorff

Dr. Leydesdorff is Senior Lecturer for Communication Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Jean-Paul Malingreau

Mr. Malingreau is Head of "Work Programme - Programme and Resource Management" within the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.

Prof. Wim Soetaert

Professor Soetaert conducts research at the Laboratory for Industrial Microbiology and Biocatalysis - Faculty of Bioscience Engineering - Ghent University in Gent, Belgium.

Tiina Tanninen-Ahonen

Ms. Tanninen-Ahonen is Director of Service Innovation at the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES) in Helsinki, Finland.

Experts from North America

Dr. Reiner Banken

Dr. Banken is Deputy CEO of the Development and Partnerships Agence d'évaluation des technologies et des modes d'intervention en santé in Quebec, Canada, and President of the HTAi.

Prof. Dr. Chad Mirkin

Professor Mirkin is Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at the Northwestern University in Evanston, United States.

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Morris

Professor Morris is Director, Office of Science Policy of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency in Washington DC, United States.

Jim Spohrer Ph.D.

Dr. Spohrer is Director Service Research of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, United States.

Experts from Asia and Australia

Prof. Stewart Burn

Professor Burn is Senior Principal Research Scientist, Stream Leader Infrastructure Technologies, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country und Group Leader, Integrated Urban Water Systems, CSIRO - Land and Water in Highett, Australia.

Dr. Kunihiro Kitano

Dr. Kitano is Director of the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Sapporo, Japan.

Prof. Mu Rongping

Prof. Mu Rongping is Director of the Institute of Policy and Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.

Dr. Masahiro Takemura

Dr. Takemura works at the Nanotechnology Researchers Network Center of Japan (nanonet), Tsukuba, Japan.