Drs Hugo Hollanders (H.J.G.M.)

Hugo Hollanders is an Economist and Senior Researcher at UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University) where he is the coordinator of the Innovation Systems Indicators and Policy Research Group. Before joining MERIT in 1992, he worked as a researcher at Statistics Netherlands (National Accounts division). He has over 25 years of experience in innovation studies and innovation statistics and has been involved in various projects for the European Commission (EC) on measuring innovation at the national, regional and industry levels, including extensive work on developing composite indicators. He is the lead author of the EC’s European Innovation Scoreboard which provides a comparative assessment of research and innovation performance in Europe. He has been responsible for the redesign of the 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022 Community Innovation Survey (CIS), a survey of innovation activity in European enterprises which is carried out once every two years.

He has been a member of several expert groups on measuring innovation for the European Commission (including the 2010 High-Level Panel on the Measurement of Innovation and the 2013 Expert Group on Public Sector Innovation ). In 2017 he was a member of the European Commission expert group on the “Mapping for smart specialisation in Enlargement and Associated Countries”. He has been a member of the Netherlands Observatory of Science and Technology (NOWT), the Advisory Steering Committee for the South-African Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII), and from 2015 to 2018 for the Advisory Board of the Global Innovation Index. Since 2017 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Knowledge Index , with a special focus on developing the Research & Development and Innovation (RDI) composite index. Since 2020 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future Possibilities Index (Office of the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates). He also contributed to the 2010, 2015 and 2021 UNESCO Science Report, and he has published in various academic journals.