Innovation and institutional change: the transition to a sustainable ...

About the author
Peter S. Hofman (1963) works as senior research associate and lecturer at the
University of Twente within the School of Business, Public Administration
and Technology, in particular the Center for Clean Technology and
Environmental Policy (www.utwente.nl/cstm). After finishing his secondary
education at the Jan van Arkel Scholengemeenschap te Hardenberg (VWO-
Atheneum), he studied Political Science at the University in Amsterdam
where he graduated in 1989. Before joining CSTM he worked several years
at the Free University of Amsterdam (Economic-Social Institute and
Department of General Economics, 1989-1991) and as an environmental
consultant (Cyclus Consultancy, 1992-1995). At CSTM he publishes and
teaches about policy strategies to induce companies towards more
environment friendly behavior both in European and Asian settings, about
environmental management, and about system innovation. Research
activities included a comparative study regarding the integration of
environmental policy and technology policy for the European Union,
pollution control and pollution prevention practices in Europe and South-
East Asia, and the management of technology responses to the climate
change challenge within the electricity system for the National Climate
Research Program. Current research involves the application of scenario
development as a tool for exploring the transition to a sustainable electricity
system funded by the Dutch Scientific Council.
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