Rainer Kattel WP 4 Leader

TALLINN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, TTU, TALLINN, ESTONIA

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Rainer Kattel is Professor and Chair of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance, and Head of the Department of Public Administration, at TUT. He is also a co-director of its Technology Governance program, www.technologygovernance.eu. His main research area is industrial and innovation policies in catching-up economies, especially Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. He has published extensively on innovation policy and development economics. His recent books include Ragnar Nurkse: Trade and Development (co-edited with Jan A. Kregel and Erik S. Reinert; Anthem, 2009), Knowledge Governance: Reasserting the Public Interest (co-edited with Leonardo Burlamaqui and Ana Celia Castro; Anthem, 2012) and Public Procurement for Innovation Policy: International Perspectives (co-edited with Tarmo Kalvet and Veiko Lember; Springer, forthcoming 2013).