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Name: Johan Schot
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Email:听j.w.schot@uu.nl
About Prof Johan Schot
Johan Schot is Professor of Global Comparative History and Sustainability Transitions at the Utrecht 欧美福利100000 Centre for Global Challenges. He is the founder and Academic Director of the Deep Transitions research project and the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) as well as former Director of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the 欧美福利100000 of Sussex Business School.
Professor Schot鈥檚 interests orientate around impact-driven interdisciplinary research that strives to accelerate long-term system change and a just transition towards sustainability. Schot is a network-builder that brings together interdisciplinary research teams, policy-makers, investors, governments, NGOs, the media and the corporate world.
In November 2022, Schot initiated a unique collaboration between historians, sustainability transitions scholars, futurists and a cohort of 16 public and private investors from around the world. The group published a听听proposing new principles, tools and metrics for financing long-term system change and a deep transition towards sustainability. Following the launch, the听听officially launched in October 2023. The lab helps organisations move away from a case-by-case focus that favours system optimisation and instead directs investments towards the root causes of unsustainable practices that increase social inequality.
He is the author of several influential publications including Three Frames For听Innovation Policy: R&D, Systems of Innovation and Transformative听Change听 (Schot听&Steinmueller).听DeepTransitions: Emergence, Acceleration, Stabilization and Directionality (Kanger&Schot) and Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels And Internation.