The Chair of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance
From left to right: Liisi Ilu, Dr. Margit Suurna, Prof. Rainer Kattel, Dr. Tarmo Kalvet and Kaija Valdmaa.
Professor Rainer Kattel
Professor Rainer Kattel BA MA PhD (University of Tartu) is Professor of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance and Head of the Program. Professor Kattel is also the Head of the Department of Public Administration. He serves on several national and European (EU, European Science Foundation) commissions in charge of science and research policy and funding, including the Innovation Policy Council. He is particularly interested in Biotechnology and national innovation systems, and he also has a strong background in Philosophy and Classics. Contacts: rainer dot kattel at ttu dot ee
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Professor Carlota Perez
Professor Carlota Perez is visiting Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic Development. Perez, who currently resides in United Kingdom, is Honorary Research Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF), University of Cambridge. Perez has held posts in the government of Venezuela, first in the Institute of Foreign Commerce in relation with the technology aspects of the North-South Dialogue (1975-1977), later as founding Director of Technology in the Ministry of Industry (1980-1983). She is perhaps most famous for her development of the concept of the “Techno-Economic Paradigm Shift”. Contacts: cep40@cam.ac.uk
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Professor Erik S. Reinert
Professor Erik S. Reinert BA (University of St. Gallen) MA (Harvard) PhD (Cornell) is Professor of Technology Governance and Development Strategies. Hi is a former entrepreneur and since 2000 served as the Executive Chairman of The Other Canon Foundation, a small center and network for heterodox economics research. Reinert's research interests and publications focus around the theory of uneven development and the history of economic thought and policy. His book How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor won the Myrdal Prize in economics and the Norwegian Selvaag Prize, both in 2008. As a consultant, Reinert's emphasis is on industrial and economic policy, the preconditions and management of innovations, and the relations between financial and production capital. Contacts: eriksreinert at gmail dot com
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Dr. Tarmo Kalvet
Dr. Tarmo Kalvet BA MPA (University of Tartu) PhD (Tallinn University of Technology) is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-ordinator of DPA’s research projects. He has served as the founding head of the Innovation Program of PRAXIS, Estonia’s leading policy think-tank, as well as one of its directors. He has taught many graduate and undergraduate courses in innovation policy and related subjects. In his PRAXIS capacity, as well as later on, he has authored and coordinated several important policy papers and analyses. Dr. Kalvet’s main interests are innovation policy (especially in small states), business models and innovation, and management of technology. Contacts: tarmo dot kalvet at ttu dot ee
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Dr. Margit Suurna
Research fellow and program director of the master studies in Public Administration Dr. Margit Suurna BA MA PhD (Tallinn University of Technology) has previously worked at the Estonian Ministry of Justice, SEB bank, and PRAXIS Center of Policy Studies. Her research concentrates on the innovation policy issues in the field of high technology (in particular information and communication technology and biotechnology) with an emphasis on the European Union’s New Member States. Contacts: margit dot suurna at ttu dot ee
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Egert Juuse
Junior research fellow Egert Juuse BA MA (Tallinn University of Technology) is the Co-ordinator for the MA in Technology Governance programme. Mr Juuse’s research interests include financial policy, economic development and innovation policy. He is a referee at the Estonian Athletics Association, Member of Panel and Area Technical Official at the European Athletics Association and member of Estonian Author’s Society and Estonian Perfomers Association. Contacts: egert dot juuse at ttu dot ee
Kaija Valdmaa
Research fellow Kaija Valdmaa BA MA (Tallinn University of Technology) is giving seminars at DPA (Environmental Policy, Public Finance) and is working on various research projects related to state modernization, innovation policy and public-private partnerships. Contacts: kaija dot valdmaa at ttu dot ee
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Liisi Ilu
Teaching assistant and project manager. Contacts: liisi dot ilu at ttu dot ee