Main Responsibilities

• Head of Center for Economic and Innovation Research
• Coordinator of main international (OECD and EU) projects, current focus of research: evaluation of research, technology and innovation policies; current trends in research and technology policies; science-industry relations and networks

Career

Wolfgang Polt finished his studies in Economics at the University of Vienna in 1985. From 1985 to 1992 he worked as a researcher at the Instiute for Socio-Economic Research and technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From 1992 to 1999 he was at the Department of Technology Studies of the Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf. From 1996 to 1998 he held a post as full time consultant to the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry/Division for Science and Technology Policy of the Organisation fo Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

Since Februar 2000 he is heading the Viennese Office of the Institute for Technology- and Regionalpolicy of JOANNEUM RESEARCH.

He won Research Scholarships at the Institut für Angewandte Systemanalyse (IIASA) in Laxenburg/Vienna and at the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) in Helsinki.

Teaching Activity

In the past, Wolfgang Polt was a lecturer for Macroeconomics at the University Linz. Currently, he lectures in Industrial Economics at the Vienna University for Business and Economics.

CV Wolfgang Polt

• Benchmarking Industry-Science Relations
• Benchmarking internationaler FTI-Politiken

• Band 5: Diffusionsorientierte Technologiepolitik. Eine vergleichende Wirkungsanalyse für Österreich, die Schweiz, Deutschland und die USA
• Das deutsche Forschungs- und Innovationssystem; Ein internationaler Systemvergleich zur Rolle von Wissenschaft, Interaktionen und Governance für die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit
• Evaluation of the Austrian Industrial Research Promotion Fund (FFF) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Synthesis Report
• IST Evaluation and Monitoring
• RR02 2002/06 "RTD Evaluation Toolbox (abridged version)"
• RR27 2004/03 "Governance in der österreichischen Politik im Politikfeld Informationsgesellschaft"
• RR39 2004/10 "Priorities in Science & Technology Policy - An internal Comparison"
• RR43 2005/10 "New Frontiers in European RTD-Policy - a Response to Europe's disappointing Growth Performance?"
• RR66 2007/05 "Gender and Excellence. Determination and Assessment of Evaluation Criteria in Scientific Systems"
• TPB02 "Mit Zukunftsinvestitionen aus der Krise?"
• WP36 2007/03 "Schwerpunktsetzungen in Forschung- und Technologypolitik - Historische Entwicklungen und aktuelle Trends"