Nicholas Vonortas

2020: Training course ""Organisation of the educational process at HSE: rules and principles, regulatory and methodological issues, use of ICT"

2017 - present: Editorial Board, Journal of the Knowledge Economy (Springer)

2015 - present: Editorial Council, Foresight and STI Governance

2014 - present: Editorial Board, book series Science, Technology and Innovation Studies  (Springer) 

2013 - present: Editorial Board, Asian Research Policy

2010 - present: Editor, Science and Public Policy (Oxford Academic)

2010 - 2015: Advisory Board, Research Evaluation

2006 - 2010: Advisory Board, Innovations

George Washington University, Anwar Aridi, Ph.D., “Knowledge Transfer from High Skilled Diasporas to the Home Country: The Case of Lebanon and the United States”, 2015.

George Washington University, Avery Sen, Ph.D., “Transformative Innovation: What ‘Totally Radical’ and ‘Island+Bridge’ Mean for NOAA Research”, 2014.

“From Research Project to Research Portfolio: Meeting Scale and Complexity”, Foresight-Russia, 2015, 9(2): 38-43. (With Jonathan Linton)

“Strategic Technology Alliances and Networks”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2015, 24(5): 490-509. (With Lorenzo Zirulia)

“Antecedents of Innovation Impacts in Publicly Funded Collaborative R&D Projects”, Technovation, 2015, 36-37: 53-64. (With Yiannis Spanos and Irini Voudouri)

“Managing Risk in the Formative Years: Evidence from Young Enterprises in Europe”, Technovation, 2014, 34(8): 454-465.  (With YoungJun Kim)

“Cooperation in the Formative Years: Evidence from Young Enterprises in Europe”, European Management Journal, 2014, 32(5): 795-805.  (With YoungJun Kim)

“Academic Entrepreneurship: An American (Individualistic) Perspective”, Asian Research Policy, 2013, 4(2).  (With James D. Kettenhofen)

“Network Structure and Robustness: Lessons for Research Programme Design,” Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2013, 22(4): 392-411.  (With Koichiro Okamura)

“Social Networks in R&D Program Evaluation”, Journal of Technology Transfer, 2013, 38(5): 577-606.

“Scale and Performance in Publicly Funded Collaborative Research and Development”, R&D Management, 2012, 42(5): 494-513. (With Yiannis E. Spanos)

“The Value of Flexibility in Adapting to Climate Change: A Real Options Analysis of Investments in Coastal Defense”, Climate Change Economics, 2012, 3(2). (With Peter Linquiti)

Books

Public Procurement for Innovation, editor, Edward Elgar, 2015 (Co-editors, Jakob Edler, Charles Edquist, Jon Mikel Zabala)

Innovation Policy: A Practical Introduction, editor, Springer, 2014 (Co-editors, Phoebe C. Rouge, Anwar Aridi)

Handbook on the Theory and Practice of R&D Program Evaluation, editor, Edward Elgar, 2013 (Co-editor, Al Link)

Innovation Networks in Industries, editor, Edward Elgar, 2009 (Co-editor, Franco Malerba)

The Innovation Imperative: National Innovation Strategies in the Global Economy, editor, Edward Elgar, 2009 (Co-editors, Goran Marklund, Charles Wessner)

Knowledge Flows in European Industry: Mechanisms and Policy Implications, editor, Routledge, 2006 (Co-editors, Yannis Caloghirou, Natasha Constantellou)

European Collaboration in Research and Development: Business Strategies and Public Policies, editor, Edward Elgar, 2004 (Co-editors, Yannis Caloghirou and Stavros Ioannides)

Cooperation in Research and Development, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

Cooperative Research in R&D-Intensive Industries, Avebu­ry Academic Publishers, 1991

Book chapters

“Innovation Systems of Ethanol in Brazil and the United States: Making a New Fuel Competitive” (With Luciano Cunha de Sousa, Inaiê Takaes Santos, and Demétrio Florentino de Toledo Filho) in Sergio Salles_Filho et al. (eds) Futures of Global Bioethanol: An Appraisal of Results, Risk and Uncertainties, Elsevier forthcoming 2016.

“Managing Risk in New Entrepreneurial Ventures” (With YoungJun Kim) in Yannis Caloghirou, Franco Malerba, Maureen McKelvey, and Slavo Radosevic (eds), Dynamics of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship: Business Strategy and Public Policy, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2015.

“Research and Technology Alliances” in David Audretsch, Christopher Hayter, and Albert N. Link (eds.) Guide to Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2015.

Reports

Protein Crystallization for Drug Development: A Prospective Empirical Appraisal of Economic Effects of ISS Microgravity, US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2015.

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Armenia, Directions in Development, core contributor, Smita Kuriakose (ed.), Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2013.

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan, Directions in Development, core contributor, Smita Kuriakose (ed.), Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2013. 

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Georgia, Directions in Development, core contributor, Smita Kuriakose (ed.), Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2013.

Promoting Strategic Alliances for Innovation Capacity, chapter contribution to the Technology and Innovation Report 2012 Exploring the South for Technology and Innovation Capacity, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

(the full list of publications is presented in CV)

Tools for enhancing the efficiency of science, technology, and innovation foresight studies (HSE, 2019)

Foresight tools for the study of digital transformation processes in the economy and the society (HSE, 2018)

Advancing forecasting methods for evidence-based science, technology and innovation policy-making (HSE, 2017)

Science, technology and innovation policy: development of instruments and assessing their efficiency (HSE, 2016)

Forming effective science, technology and innovation policy: methods and instruments (HSE, 2015)

“Protein Crystallization for Drug Development: An Empirical Appraisal of Economic Effects of Microgravity”, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), AMES Research Center (ARC), Emerging Space Office (ESO), 2016-2017. [Co-Principal Investigator]

“Increasing International Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation between Brazil and the European Union” (INCOBRA), European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, 2016-2018. [Co-Principal Investigator]

“Economic Development of Low Earth Orbit Activities”, US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2014-2015.  [Co-Principal Investigator]

“Country Case Chile: Public Research Centres”, Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD), 2015. [External Advisor]

“Sao Paulo Excellence Chair” (SPEC), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Science Foundation of the State of Sao Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil, 2014-2019. [Holder of Chair and Principal Investigator]

“Impact Assessment of Greek Research, Development and Innovation Programs 2000-2009”, General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Greece, 2014-2015.  [Co-Principal Investigator and Scientific Director]

“Choosing Emerging Technologies for Development”, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 2014.  [Co-Principal Investigator]

­­2004 - present: Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Department of Economics & Center for International Science and Technology Policy (CISTP), George Washington University (USA)

Professor Vonortas also holds a‘SãoPaulo Excellence Chair’ in InnovationPolicy at the Universidade Estadual deCampinas (UNICAMP), State of SãoPaulo, Brazil during the period 2014-2019.

Professor Vonortas’ teaching and research interests are in industrial organization, in the economics  of  technological change,  and  in  technology  and  innovation policy. He specializes on strategic partnerships/innovation networks, investment under uncertainty, technology  transfer, knowledge-intensive  entrepreneurship, high-risk financing,  and R&D program evaluation. He has published widely on these issues.

Professor  Vonortas has held  visiting  appointments  at several universities  including the University of Lund (Sweden), Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) (Brasil), the University of Maastricht  (Netherlands),  Luigi  Bocconi  University  (Italy), the  Athens University  of Economics and Business and the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). He has served  as  a  consultant  to  many  government  agencies in the  United  States,  the European Union and member countries, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and Mexico and to several  international  organizations such  as  the World Bank  and  the  United  Nations on issues related to strategic partnerships, R&D program evaluation, risk investing, science 

Professor Vonortas is an editor of the peer reviewed journal Science and Public Policy. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.Phil. in Economics from New York University (USA), a MA in Economic Development from Leicester University (UK), and a BA in Economics from the University of Athens (Greece).