Floor Alkemade
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Floor Alkemade is a Full Professor and Chair of Economics and Governance of Technological Innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her key areas of expertise include innovation, cleantech and sustainability. Floor’s research goal is to identify the general and the location-specific mechanisms that lead to successful innovations for sustainability. Together with a group of PhD students, Floor uses data-driven and simulation approaches to analyze innovation for sustainability at different scales. Examples are the behavior electric vehicle owners in smart grids and, the eco-innovation capacities of countries.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Floor Alkemade is full professor Economics and Governance of Technological Innovation. She received an ERC Consolidator grant (2022), a Vidi grant (2014) and a Veni grant (2008) to work on research projects on innovation for sustainability. Previously she was affiliated with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and the Dutch National Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI).
Floor Alkemade received her PhD in Agent Based Evolutionary Economics, from TU/e in 2004. Her PhD work was done at the Dutch National Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI). She holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from VU University Amsterdam. After her PhD she joined the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. Floor is associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. In 2015 she joined the Technological, Innovation and Society group at TU/e.
Recent Publications
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C.W. Klok,Arjan F. Kirkels,Floor Alkemade
Impacts, procedural processes, and local context: Rethinking the social acceptance of wind energy projects in the Netherlands
Energy Research and Social Science (2023) -
Deyu Li,Floor Alkemade,Koen Frenken,Gaston Heimeriks
Catching up in clean energy technologies
Journal of Technology Transfer (2023) -
Nikki Kluskens,Floor Alkemade,Johanna I. Höffken
Towards a more comprehensive understanding of how community acceptance comes about
(2022) -
Deyu Li,Gaston Heimeriks,Floor Alkemade
Knowledge flows in global renewable energy innovation systems
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management (2022) -
Bernhard Truffer,Harald Rohracher,Paula Kivimaa,Rob Raven,Floor Alkemade,Luis Carvalho,Giuseppe Feola
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (2022)
Current Educational Activities
- International semester
- International semester
- Economics of innovation: introduction
- Governing innovations
- Sustainability challenge: the future city of 1.5 degrees
- Impact of technology : engineering for society
- Impact of technology : engineering for society
- Governing sustainable technology and innovation
- Green and digital transformation: sustainability in the era of AI
- Impact of technology : engineering for society
Ancillary Activities
- member scientific board, Netherlands Energy Research Alliance (NERA)
- Lid Expertisekring Klimaat, Raad van State - afdeling advisering
- Member of the expert group on the economic and social impact of research and innovation (ESIR3), European Commission Directorate General for Research and Innovation
- Lid missieteam Systeemintegratie, Topsector Energie