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Dr. Bastiaan de Laat is Dutch, born 4 October 1965, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He holds an MA in Chemistry, University
of Nijmegen with specialisations in Pharmacochemistry
and Science Dynamics, and a PhD, University of
Amsterdam, on methodology for technology foresight
and strategic analysis of research programmes. Based at the Ecole des Mines de Paris from 1992-98, he has specialised in research management and strategy
development on the institutional and international level.
He is fluently trilingual (Dutch, English and French).
Dr de Laat joined Technopolis in May 1998 to create its French subsidiary, which today counts 6 consultants. He focuses on research and innovation policies, evaluation, management and strategy at the regional, national, international, institutional and programme level. Activities specifically relating to Information Society related R&D and R&D policies include the following:
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leading a study into the relevance of ICT related research in traditional manufacturing industries (eTRANET consortium,
2004) |
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responsible for the evaluation of the French software technologies research network (‘réseau de recherché en
technologies logicielles’ RNTL) (for the French Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finance and Industry, 2004) |
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rapporteur of the 5 Year Assessment Panel (1999-2003) of the Information Society Technologies programme of the
European Commission (DG INFSO, 2004) |
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comparative study into the major technology roadmaps in areas related to ICT (for the French Ministry of Research,
2003), including a study on the ITEA roadmap |
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leading the study into evaluation use at the European Commission (with the Tavistock Institute), for DG BUDG, 2002;
this contained a special case study on the use of evaluation by DG INFSO |
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participating in the evaluation of the Eureka Cluster MEDEA+ on Semiconductors (for the Public Authorities of the countries involved in MEDEA+) |
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leading a preparatory study on the organisation of ICT related research in the US, Japan, Finland and Germany (for the French Ministry of Research, 2003) |
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member of the European expert group studying the impact of ICT on intellectual property within research cooperation (for the European Commission DG RTD, 2002) |
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leading the evaluation of the RNRT (approx budget 40 MEURO/yr), the French national research network in the field of telecommunications (for the French Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finance and Industry, 2002) |
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responsible for the “QUALITIC” study into the relationships between ICT and Quality Assurance in French companies
(for the French Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finance and Industry, 2002) |
| • | participating in the evaluation of IMEC (Flanders Institute for Microelectronics) one of the world’s excellence centres in this area (for the Flemish government) |
| • | member of the yearly monitoring panel of the European Information Society Technologies programme (FP 5, European Commission, 2000) |
| • | strategic survey of the research competencies of a France-based major multinational services company, active in telecommunications and multimedia publishing, as well as in water, waste management, and transport services (1999, name confidential) |
| • | advice on construction of research platform for multi-modal passenger information (Ministry of transport, 2001) |
| • | definition of the role of scientific informatics within the French national agricultural research institute INRA (1999) |
| • | rapporteur of the Monitoring 1996 and member of the Monitoring 1997 Panels of the Telematics Applications Programme (DG XIII) |
| • | assistant to the Five-year assessment (1996) of the Telematics Applications Programme of the European Commission (DG XIII) |