Dirk Johann, born 1972, is a social
scientist with an expertise in industrial and economic sociology, innovation
research and development economics. He studied sociology, philosophy and
economics at the University of Freiburg,
Germany (M.A.), the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the London
School of Economics and Political Science (MSc). In his PhD (Freiburg)
he analysed the reconfiguration of the Korean latecomer innovation system in
the context of emerging biotechnology. Dirk Johann has working experience with
the European Commission (DG Enterprise, Innovation Directorate) and the United
Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). He worked as a consultant
for Consumers International (London) and the
Prognos AG (Berlin)
in fields related to international development and regional innovation
strategies. He has been Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Sussex
(SPRU). In his function as scientific project manager at the ZSI he is
responsible for projects of international RTD co-operation, with a particular
focus on S&T co-operation between the European Union and Latin America such
as for example the FP6 project ‘LAC-ACCESS (Connecting High-Quality Research
between the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean Countries)’ and the FP7 project ‘EULARINET – European
Union – Latin American Research and Innovation NETworks’. In addition, he
is the scientific coordinator of the FP7 project ‘EULAKS – Connecting
Socio-Economic Research on the Dynamics of the Knowledge Society in the European
Union and Latin American and Caribbean Countries.’
