Nicholas Vonortas

Editorial board membership

2015 - present: Editorial Council, Foresight and STI Governance

2014 - present: Editorial Board, book series "Science, Technology and Innovation Studies", Springer Publishers

2013 - present: Editorial Board, Asian Research Policy

2010 - present: Editor, Science and Public Policy

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.

“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]

“STI Policy Evaluation: Introduction and Economic Considerations”, Lecture, Executive Education Program on Technology management and Policy, Institute for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., November 6, 2017.

“Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in China” paper presentation, Annual Meetings of the Technology Transfer Society, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, November 4, 2017.

“Firm Innovativeness in Brazil”, paper presentation, Annual Meetings of the Technology Transfer Society, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, November 3, 2017.

“Corporate Foresight and Innovation: Effects of Integrative Capabilities and Organizational Learning”, paper presentation, 7^th HSE Academic Conference on Foresight and STI Policy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation, November 1, 2017.

“Backbones of the Knowledge Economy? Universities and the Dynamics of Technology Upgrading in a Developing Country” and “Open Source Foundations as Social Innovators in Emerging Economies: The Case of Brazil”, paper presentations, 15^th Globelics International Conference, Athens, Greece, October 12-13, 2017.

Commentator on “Protecting Innovation Through Patents and Trade Secrets: Determinants and Performance Impacts for Firms with a Single Innovation” by D. Crass, F. Garcia Valero, F. Pitton and C. Rammer, US Patent and Trademark Office Conference “Economic Impacts of Intellectual Property on Market Outcomes”, USPTO, Alexandria, VA, September 22, 2017.

“Social Networks in Appraising Research and Innovation”, seminar, Institute of Economics, University of Campinas, Brazil, August 25, 2017.

(the full list of conferences is presented in CV)

­­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).