Chairs:

Wolfgang Drechsler
Professor of GovernanceTallinn University of Technology
Department of Public Administration
Contact: wolfgang.drechsler@ttu.ee 

Professor Drechsler previously taught at the University of Tartu, Estonia, at the Universities of Marburg, Gießen, and Frankfurt/Main, all in Germany, and as Visiting Professor in Lund, Sweden and Erfurt, Germany. He has served as Advisor to the President of Estonia, as Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during the German Reunification, and as Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. His main areas of interest include the role of the state in economic growth, the administration of innovation, the epistemology of economics, and Staatswissenschaften in general; he also has a background in Continental philosophy. See full bio here.

 
Rainer Kattel
Professor of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance
Tallinn University of Technology
Department of Public Administration
Contact: rainer.kattel@ttu.ee

Professor Kattel serves on several national and European (EU, European Science Foundation) commissions in charge of science and research policy and funding. He is interested in biotechnology and governance & management of national innovation systems, and he also has a strong background in philosophy and the classics. He has published extensively on topics bridging the fields of public administration, economics and innovation. See full bio here.

 
Christopher Stillings
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE AG
Corporate Development,
New Business, Creative Center
Innovation Manager
Contact: christopher.stillings@bayerbms.com

Dr. Stillings works at the central innovation-management department of Bayer MaterialScience AG, which is highly involved in corporate foresight. He previously worked as a research associate at the TransMIT Center for polymer research and nanotechnology at Philipps University in Marburg and as a consultant at the Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel. Dr. Stillings studied chemistry at the universities of Marburg and Galway and earned a master’s degree in innovation management from EBS. During his PhD studies, Dr. Stillings worked at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle, the Laboratory of Leon Brillouin in Saclay France and the universities UFRGS in Porto Alegre and Rio Grande in Brazil.   


Contact person of the PSG:

Erkki Karo
Manager of PATI
Department of Public Administration
Tallinn University of Technology
12618 Tallinn, Estonia
E-mail: erkki.karo@ttu.ee
Phone: 00372 515 6795