Dr. Rick Harwig and Prof. Dr. Alfred Kleinknecht appointed in supervisory board
With pride the Prodrive general management announces that from 21st January 2011 Prodrive Holding B.V. has appointed Dr. Rick Harwig and Prof. Dr. Alfred Kleinknecht in the supervisory board. The Prodrive management and shareholders are convinced that this step will support strongly Prodrive’s strategy, continuity and public responsibility.
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Dr. Rick Harwig, born in 1949 in Rotterdam, received his PhD in Utrecht and started his career at Philips Research. He worked in several management positions. From 2000 to 2004 he led the management of Philips Research on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven and from 2004 to 2007 he was CEO of Philips Research worldwide. From 2006 to april 2010 he was CTO of Philips and responsible for Philips Corporate Technologies (Research, Intellectual Property & Standards, Applied Technologies and Incubator Organisations). At the moment Rick Harwig works in several positions such as chairman of the supervisory board of the Brabantse Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij, chairman of the supervisory board of TIAS-Nimbas business school and as start-up director of the Strategic Energy Cluster of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Besides that he is general manager of Harwig Innovation Services. With this enterprise he wants to contribute to the improvement of the economic structure in Brabant and Brainport (The Netherlands), both in a commercial and a public way. |
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Prof. Dr. Alfred Kleinknecht, born in 1951 in Baden-Württemberg, graduated in Berlin en received his PhD at the Free University (VU), Amsterdam. He was economic researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and the VU, Amsterdam (1978-1984). From 1984-1988 he was university teacher at the University of Maastricht and from 1988-1994 senior researcher with the SEO, University of Amsterdam. 1994-1997 he was professor/director of the Economical Research Institute of the VU (ESI). Since 1997 he is professor in the Economics of Innovation at the TU Delft.
Kleinknecht was responsible for three national inquiries about innovation in The Netherlands (1983, 1988, 1992) and was a member of the team that developed the Community Innovation Survey (CIS), as well as the OECD Oslo Manual on innovation measurement. Kleinknecht is known for his criticism of the Dutch policy of wage moderation and flexibilization of the labour market. |
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