Section: Research Policy & Development

Function: Project manager and Researcher

Contact:

• Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 18
• Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
• Email: haider@zsi.at

Publications:

• Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions (2022)
• Revisiting bi-regional relations: the EU-Latin American dialogue and diversification of interregional cooperation (2020)
• Planning::Innovation (2019)
• Service markets, service labour markets and company strategies in Europe. The research report. (2018)
• Research Trajectories on Social Issues in the EU, (CE)LAC and beyond. How the social dimension of the EU and (CE)LAC frame EU-(CE)LAC social relations (2018)
• Shaping industrial relations in a digitalising services industry: regional report for Continental Europe (2018)
• Compilation of in-depth case study reports (2017)
• Top-10 research priorities for sustainable futures - Insights from and for Austria. Policy brief (2016) (Primary Author)

Work and research focus:

Social Innovation, Regional Innovation, Regional Development, Transformative Innovation Policy, Policy experimentation, Development Cooperation, SDGs, Political Communication, Policy Analysis, Latin American Studies

Running and completed projects:

• CRETE VALLEY - CRETE VALLEY: A new project to pioneer the first renewable energy valley in Europe (2023, project leader)
• Evaluation of the European Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation: Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness related to the Green Transition (2021)
• SIAMESE - Social innovation for climate change adaptation & mitigation (2021, project leader)
• RIPEET - Responsible research and Innovation Policy Experimentations for Energy Transition (2021, project leader)
• Innovation for a Better World (2020)
• Frugal Inno - Frugal Innovation (2020, project leader)
• CERUSI - Central European Rural Social Innovation (2020, project leader)
• Cherries - Constructing Healthcare Environments through Responsible Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategies (2020)
• Danube Chance 2.0 - Embracing failure to facilitate second-chance entrepreneurship in the Danube region (2018)
• LIVERUR - Living Lab research concept in Rural Areas (2018, project leader)
• PLAISIR - Planning Innovation: learning from socially innovative energy projects (2017)
• SIRDIG - Shaping Industrial Relations in a Digitalising Services Industry (2017)
• RaiSE - Enhancing social enterprises competitiveness through improved business support policies (2017)
• BildungsVielfalt – BildungsChance II (2016)
• EULAC Focus - Giving focus to the cultural, scientific and social dimension of EU-CELAC relations (2016)
• PLOTINA - Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation, and training (2016)
• RI-LINKS2UA - Strengthening Research and Innovation Links towards Ukraine (2016)
• CASI - Public participation in developing a common framework for assessment and management of sustainable innovation (2014)
• SI-Drive (2014)
• LIST - Leveraging the Digital & ICT Competences of senior women to extenuate the knowledge divide (2013)
• INDIGO POLICY (2013)
• ALCUE NET (2012)

Other Publications:

Suitner, J., Haider, W., & Krisch, A. (2024). Socially innovative experiments for transformative local development: Putting more-than-growth-oriented local interventions in spatial context. Regional Science Policy & Practice, 100035.

Suitner, J., Haider, W., & Philipp, S. (2023). Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions. Regional Studies, 57(8), 1498-1510.

Philipp, S., Brugner, P., Haider, W., Pichler, S., Amanatitis, A., & Meijer, I. (2023). Drivers and barriers for innovation pilots in healthcare.

Suitner, J., Haider, W., Philipp, S., & Krisch, A. (2021). Social Innovation for Adaptation and Mitigation. Experimenting for Transformative Climate Governance. Initial report on the research endeavor in the course of the ACRP13 Programme.

Wieser, Harald und Kaufmann, Peter und Brunner, Philipp und Haider, Wolfgang und Hochreiter, Harald und Knoll, Norbert und Koch, Lisa und Kubeczko, Klaus und Reitschuler, Gerhard und Sardadvar, Sascha und Schuch, Klaus und Steyer, Mario (2021) Umweltwirkungen von FTI-politischen Maßnahmen: Herausforderungen und Ansätze für die Evaluierungspraxis. fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation (52). pp. 36-46. ISSN 1726-6629

Haider, Wolfgang (2015): Morden unter dem Deckmantel der Medizin: NS-"Euthanasie" in Kärnten/Koroška und dem Gailtal/Ziljska dolina. In: Gitschtaler, Bernhard (Hrsg.): Ausgelöschte Namen - Die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus im und aus dem Gailtal. Salzburg: Otto-Müller Verlag.

Education and career:

since 2015: Researcher at the ZSI, Department F&E

2013 - 2016: Master in International Development, University of Vienna

2009 - 2013: BA International Development, BA Political Science, University of Vienna

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