Ben Vermeulen is an innovation economist studying green and digital transition using both simulation models and empirical analysis to provide policy recommendations.
Ben Vermeulen worked for nearly 10 years in industry as (senior) software engineer, has an MSc (2007) in Innovation Science: Technology & Innovation Policy with major Mathematics (w/hon) and a PhD (2012) in Industrial Engineering, both from the TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He worked on projects on the role of innovation networks and policy on regional technological change, the impact of automation on structural change, the impact of technology development on the energy transition, and on governance of regional green industrial transition.
Since 2014, he is coordinator for Research Area "Technological change, governance & transition" of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economics. From 2016 to 2018, he was visiting professor at AI-ECON, National Chengchi University, Taipei. He is Associate Editor for journal of Review of Evolutionary Political Economy (REPE), and Advisory Board member for the Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market & Complexity (JOI).
His research interests are in regional green industrial transition; innovation, technology, and industrial policy; technological & structural change; governance; and (spatial) agent-based modeling.