Section: Research Policy & Development

Function: Coordinator of the 'Transformative Innovation Lab'

Contact:

• Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 79
• Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
• Email: philipp@zsi.at

Publications:

• Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht (2024) (Primary Author)
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2024 (2024) (Primary Author)
• Alles was Sie schon immer über Österreichs FTI-Politik wissen wollten, aber sich nicht getraut haben zu fragen ... (2023) (Primary Author)
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2023 (2023) (Primary Author)
• Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2022 (2022) (Primary Author)
• Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions (2022)
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2022 (2022) (Primary Author)
• Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2021 (2021-06-02)
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2021 (2021) (Primary Author)
• Challenge definition in Open Innovation Processes (2021) (Primary Author)
• Kopublikationsanalyse Österreich-China 2013-2018 - Endbericht (2020-03-31)
• Planning::Innovation (2019)
• Analyse der Potenziale Sozialer Innovation im Rahmen von LEADER 2014-2020 (2019)
• Der LEADER-Ansatz und Soziale Innovation im ländlichen Raum – eine Liaison? (2019)
• Promoting innovation in transition countries: A trajectory for smart specialisation (2017) (Primary Author)
• “Policy brief on thematic patterns of cross-border S&T cooperation based on co-publication and co-patent analysis” [BSH Policy Brief #2] (2016-05-25)

Work and research focus:

Researcher, project manager, team leader working on:

• Research, technology and innovation policy
• Transformation of socio-technical systems
• Regional policy
• Evaluations

Interested in the interfaces between innovationy, policy, and society

Running and completed projects:

• UTOPIZE - Urban transformation through open participation and inclusivity for citizen empowerment (2025, project leader)
• CircSyst - Circular Systemic Solutions: Plastic, Packaging, Biowaste, Water (2024)
• MSF - Mission Service Facility (2024)
• MountResilience (2023)
• RESIST - Regions for climate change resilience through Innovation, Science and Technology (2023)
• BIO-SUSHY - Sustainable surface protection by glass-like and biomaterials hybrid coatings (2023, project leader)
• FTB 2023-2026 - Austrian Research and Technology Reports 2023-2026 (2022)
• SIAMESE - Social innovation for climate change adaptation & mitigation (2021)
• RIPEET - Responsible research and Innovation Policy Experimentations for Energy Transition (2021)
• ENTRANCES - ENergy TRANsitions from Coal and carbon: Effects on Societies (2020)
• ISF-CH/IS - ISF Data Gathering on the participation of Switzerland and Israel to Horizon 2020 (2020, project leader)
• Cherries - Constructing Healthcare Environments through Responsible Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategies (2020, project leader)
• Programmmanagement und Kommunikation in der missionsorientierten Forschungsförderung Am Beispiel „Stadt der Zukunft“ (2020)
• Analysis of Austria-China Co-publications 2013-2018 (2019)
• LIVERUR - Living Lab research concept in Rural Areas (2018)
• SILEA - Analysis of Social Innovation Potentials in the frame of LEADER 2014-2020 programme (2018)
• PLAISIR - Planning Innovation: learning from socially innovative energy projects (2017, project leader)
• KNOWMAK - Knowledge in the making in the European society (2017)
• RaiSE - Enhancing social enterprises competitiveness through improved business support policies (2017, project leader)
• INCOBRA - Increasing International Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation between Brazil and the European Union (2016)
• CASI - Public participation in developing a common framework for assessment and management of sustainable innovation (2014)
• Danube-INCO.NET (2014)
• ERA-Can+ (2013)
• JEUPISTE (2013)
• CAAST-NET PLUS (2013)
• SEA-EU-NET II (2012)

Participation at events:

• Social innovation in Horizon Europe - Virtuell/FFG
  11. 04. 2023 - 11. 04. 2023
• Smart Specialisation events by Danube-INCO.NET at Open Evaluation 2016
  25. 11. 2016 - 25. 11. 2016
• Open Evaluation 2016 - Tech Gate Vienna, Donau-City-Straße 1, A-1220 Vienna
  24. 11. 2016 - 25. 11. 2016

Education and career:

Stefan Philipp (m) is a researcher and project coordinator at the Centre for Social Innovation, Vienna, Austria. At ZSI, he coordinates the ‘Transformative Innovation Lab’, an internal team working on socio-technical system change and new forms of governance in the context of ‘third frame’ innovation policy. Stefan is involved in with a focus on mission and problem-oriented innovation policy, regional development incl. smart specialisation, Living Lab methodology, scientometric studies, studies on social innovation, as well as evaluation of RTI-policies. He deploys a broad set of qualitative and quantitative methods. During the last years, he coordinated the H2020 project CHERRIES and the FFG project PLAISIR.

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