Organext - Nanotechnology for a sustainable future

Organext seminar: Emerging technologies in a regional context - 1/03/2012

ORGANEXT seminar ICIS - UNU-Merit

Thursday March 1st, 2012

PROGRAMME

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Please send your name, surname and affiliation by e-mail to Liesbeth Noben l.noben@maastrichtuniversity.nl
by Monday February 27th at the latest.

VENUE:

ICIS
Kapoenstraat 2
6211 KW Maastricht
The Netherlands

DIRECTIONS TO ICIS:

Follow the link below to the interactive Google Map for the ICIS address and to get directions from anywhere in Europe:

Kapoenstraat 2
Maastricht University, 6211 Maastricht
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Since the Kapoenstraat is in the middle of the historic city of Maastricht, it is not easy to find a parking space. The closest carpark is Q-Park at the Vrijthof.
You can find more parking possibilities at http://www.parkeren-maastricht.nl

PURPOSE OF THE SEMINAR

The purpose of the seminar is to discuss the topic of emerging technologies in regional context, to obtain a better understanding of the generative processes of radically new technologies for which there is not yet a market, but who have a wide range of possible applications. In the absence of real markets, such technologies are often driven by promises and research money, with commercial companies engaging in "waiting games", in an attempt to benefit from the research efforts of others and to exploit past investments in earlier generation products. Investments may be subject to hype-disillusionment cycles. The focus of the seminar is on organic solar cells, an emerging technology, which is competing with crystalline silicon solar cells and thin film solar cells (1st and 2nd generation products). Insights from studies of innovation-based regional development and studies of disruptive innovation will be applied to the topic of organic solar cells and new deposition techniques, with the aim of learning about appropriate market strategies and policy support measures. We will also examine the results of consumer research on (organic) solar PV.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Jean Manca is professor at the University of Hasselt (B) and project leader of the Organext project.

Lars Coenen is Associate Professor in Economic Geography at CIRCLE (Lund University in Sweden) with a particular interest in the geographies of innovation and sustainability transitions.

Raf Sluismans is research fellow at UNU-MERIT (NL) and project coordinator of the Strategisch Innoveren Vlaanderen project and of the Strategisch Innoveren OP Zuid project.

René Kemp is professor of innovation and sustainable development at ICIS (Maastricht University) and professorial fellow of UNU-MERIT in Maastricht.

Alireza Parandian is PhD researcher at the Technical University of Delft (NL) studying market introduction strategies and waiting games for nano-electronics.

Marc Dijk is Organext researcher at ICIS (NL) where he studies the company strategies for different generation of solar cells and wider cultural aspects of solar cell applications.

Catherine Delvenne is a consultant at Cide-Socran (spin-off of the University of Liege), with an experience of patent research and market survey.

Sebastien Lizin is an Organext researcher at Hasselt University (B) where he is performing a PhD on the integrated technology assessment of photovoltaic solar cells in order to predict organic photovoltaic solar cells' future.

Jan Kroon, solar energy expert ECN (NL), project leader HiFlex project about OPV for mobile and remote ICT applications.