Wageningen University

Faculty Member, Communication and Innovation Studies

Assistant professor

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Laurens Klerkx is assistant professor at the Communication and Innovation Studies Group. He holds a MSc in Tropical Agriculture, and a PhD in Communication and Innovation Studies. His research takes place in the realm of agriculture and the life sciences and focuses on: demand articulation and multi-stakeholder negotiations for demand-driven research and innovation; newly emerging intermediary structures for matching demand and supply for knowledge to support innovation (innovation brokers); how such innovation brokers affect the dynamics in innovation networks and how they are perceived by ‘traditional’ knowledge intensive service providers (such as research institutes and consultants) and end-users of innovation; the structural dynamics of innovation networks over time and corresponding role divisions in innovation networks, the role of agency in niche-regime relationships in emerging innovations.

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