Hannes Leo

Hannes Leo has been analysing various dimensions of innovative activities and innovation policy for about 20 years and has been responsible for large scale national and international research projects. Presently he is Scientific Director of ERAWATCH and founder – together with Prof. Alfred Taudes – of cbased (Community Based Innovation Systems, www.cbased.com) which designs and organises participatory decision making processes that are inspired by community based innovation principles. He acted as deputy director of WIFO (Austrian Institute of Economic Research) from 2005 to 2007 and was director of the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Bonn from January to April 2008.

 

He is delegate to the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), member of the UNECE Team of Specialist on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies (TOS-ICP) and lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology. Hannes was a research fellow at SPRU (University of Sussex, Brighton) in 1994, the Istituto di Studi sulla Ricerca e Documentazione Scientifica, (Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche, Rome) in 1995, a visiting economist at OFTEL (Office of Telecommunications, London) in 1996 and a research fellow of the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001.