Jean-Claude Burgelman
J.C. Burgelman is project leader at the ICT unit of the JRC-IPTS, (on leave from his
position as full professor of communication technology policy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He has degrees in social sciences (BA, Phd) and in science and technology policy (MA) from the VUB. He directed at the VUB the research
centre Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunications, which is a centre of
excellence in Belgium. His main research activities concern the social and economic impacts of information society technologies (from the point of view of innovation dynamics). At IPTS (http://fiste.jrc.es) he leads several projects on the future of the Information Society in Europe: vision and knowledge base (see http://fistera.jrc.es), the potential of IST for the new entrants, the outlook for 3G and 4G in Europe, the impact of
Ambient Intelligence technologies on health and e-governance, etc. He also sits on the High Level Socio-Economic Expert Group of DG Infso, chaired by Commissioner Liikanen. He published widely on these subjects (books and articles).
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