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John
Grin is a professor a titre personnel in policy science. After obtaining
a MSc. in physics and social studies of science at the VU University,
Amsterdam, he obtained his Ph.D. at the same university on a dissertation
Military-technological choices and political implications (Amsterdam/New
York, 1990). In later work at the VU University and at Princeton
University, he focused on the relations between international stability,
arms control, military technology and strategic planning and the
changes therein accompanying the transition to a post-Cold War security
system. Grin is a deputy-chairman of the Working Group on European
Security and Peace Studies (Mosbach, FRG) as well as the Study Group
on Alternative Security Policy (Berlin, FRG).
Since 1992, when he joined the University of Amsterdam's Department
of Political Science, he has been involved in realizing a (largely
externally funded) research programme on governance of socio-technological
development. His research agenda focuses on the reflexive modernisation
of socio-technological regimes, such as the transition from current
intensive to sustainable agriculture, or to a more user-oriented
health care system. Theoretically, it integrates insights from sociology,
political science and social studies of science and technology to
understand practices in which systemic innovations are being conceived
and instigated, and the mutual impact between these practices and
the existing regime.
His research programme is largely externally funded by a wide range
of agencies and organisations including the German Research Foundation,
the Department of the Environment in the Hague, the Department for
International Co-operation in the Hague, the Rathenau Institute
and of the Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung of
the German Bundestag (the Dutch and the German offices for parliamentary
TA, respectively), the Interdepartmental Office for Sustainable
Technological Development, The Dutch Collegium for Health Care Insurances,
and the Dutch Foundation on Pure Research (NWO).
John
Grin is directing a post-graduate course on system innovation, and
responsible for the governance research cluster of a knowledge network
on system innovation comprising ten universities and a range of
practitioners. Some recent publications are John Grin & Armin
Grunwald (eds., 2000). Vision Assessment: Shaping Technology in
21st century society. Heidelberg etc.: Springer Verlag; R. Hoppe,
M. Jeliazkova, H. van de Graaf & J. Grin (1998). Beleidsnota's
die (door)werken. Handleiding voor geslaagde beleidsvoorbereiding.
Bussum: Countinho; Hans Günter Brauch, Henk van de Graaf, John
Grin & Wim Smit (1997). Militärtechnikfolgenabschätzung
und Präventive Rüstungskontrolle. Institutionen, Verfahren
und Instrumente. Münster: LIT Verlag; Rob Hoppe & John
Grin (eds.), Special Issue on Interactive Technology Assessment
of Industrial and Environmental Crisis Quarterly vol. 9 (1995) no.
1.
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