Marc Dijk

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Marc is docent-onderzoeker aan het Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Maastricht University en onderzoeker bij de Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University.

Marc Dijk (PhD) is a research fellow at ICIS (Maastricht University). His main research interests are innovation and innovation policy, sustainability assessment and socio-technical transitions. He is also Honorable Research Associate at Oxford University (School of Geography and the Environment, Transport Studies Unit).

Marc is currently principal investigator and project coordinator of SmarterLabs, an action- research project focussed on upscaling and social exclusion in Smart City Living Labs in Maastricht, Brussels, Graz and Bellinzona.

He has published various articles and book chapters on innovation in electric mobility, Park+Ride, urban mobility, solar energy and resource efficiency. Together with colleagues, he develops and teaches an integrative approach to sustainability assessment. It combines the understanding of stakeholders (perspectives, practices, etc.) with systems analysis of the issue (Qualitative Systems Analysis, Life Cycle Analysis, etc.). More than most innovation approaches, it explicitly combines various types of knowledge within one study, and typically takes a mixed-method approach.

Marc was educated in aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology for which he wrote his master thesis at the product development department of Jaguar Cars in Coventry, England, where he compared the product development organizations of Jaguar and Volvo Cars (Sweden). After a summer program at the University of California (Berkeley) he completed a master program on Science and Technology Studies at Maastricht University.