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About me g
I
have Ph.D. degrees in Economics (2003) from the Prague University of
Economics and Business, Czech Republic and in Science,
technology and innovation studies (2005) from the University of Oslo,
Norway. From 2002 until 2010 I survived eight long Norwegian winters
doing research at the TIK Centre, University of Oslo. Since 2011 to 2017 I
held the chair of Associate Professor in CIRCLE, Lund
University (on a part-time basis at reduced capacity). Since 2010 I am
based at CERGE‑EI
in Prague, initially running projects as a senior researcher, serving as
the Deputy Director for Research from 2018 to 2023, and back again
enjoying myself as a senior researcher now.
In
less academic part of my professional life, I am involved in activities
of IDEA think-tank at CERGE-EI
and I am a member of the Evaluation panel on Business, Management,
Administration and Finance of the Czech Science
Foundation. In the recent past, I advised the Czech government as a
member of the Commission for Evaluation of Results of Research
Organizations and Programmes at the Council
for Research, Development and Innovation. I was the Research and
Innovation Observatory (formerly known as ERAWATCH) correspondent of the European Commission
for the Czech Republic and a member of the Evaluation panel of the OMEGA programme of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. I also did
consultancy work for flagship publications by UNIDO, UNCTAD and UNECE.
Read my blog
about innovation policy and related topics.
In
2021, my paper on predatory publishing was retracted without a credible
justification by the journal Scientometrics, following pressures (and
probably legal threats) business interests, on the toes of which the
paper stepped. It was the most disappointing, frustrating and
disheartening moment of my research career so far. If you ever wonder how
this could have happened and how comes that it has not been rectified,
read my article “What
if your paper were retracted for no credible reason?“ in
Research Evaluation about imperfections in the regulatory framework of
retractions and how to fix tem.
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