Mag. Petra Wagner M.A.

Function
Senior Expert Advisor
Center
Innovation Systems & Policy
Competence Unit
Innovation Systems & Policy
Address
Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna
Career
Field: Institutional Change and Policy Instruments
Main Research: Innovation and Transformation
Experience:
Petra Wagner is senior expert advisor in the area of innovation and governance. She works on transformative policy design and assessment. She has extensive experience in designing, managing and leading national as well as international R&D projects for EC, ministries with a focus on cross- and transdisciplinary approaches. Her specific expertise is in shaping science-technology-society relations in the context of urban innovation.
- 2013-now: Senior Expert Advisor
RTI Policy, Innovation Systems Department, AIT / Austria - 2010-2013: Researcher and Policy Advisor
Technology Management, Foresight & Policy Development Department, AIT / Austria - 2008-2010: Seconded Expert, Cabinet Staff
Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology / Austria - 2008-2010: Managing Director
generation innovation / Austria - 2007-2008: Portfolio Manager "Knowledge Management"
ARC systems research / Austria - 1997-2007: Researcher
Regional Science, Forschungszentrum Seibersdorf / Austria - 1995-1996: Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Geography, University of Maryland / USA - 2016-now: Deputy Head
AIT Center for Innovation Systems and Policy / Austria
- 2006-2008: European Coordinator of the Society of Organizational Learning (SoL)
- 2017 to now: ECTRI European Conference on Transport Research Institutes, Co-Lead of Thematic Group "Economics and Policy"
- 2014 onwards: RRI Platform Austria
- 2019-2020: International Public Policy Association
- 2009: Best Paper IAMOT ernational Association for Management of Technology
- 2005: ARC Award for Economic Excellence
- 1995: Fulbright US Scholarship
- 2020: IST International Sustainability Transitions - Gallery Award
Publications
- EU Regional Policy and the Stimulation of Innovation: The Role of the European Regional Development Fund in the Objective 1 Region Burgenland
Author(s): Kaufmann A., Wagner P.
Journal: European Planning Studies, 14 (4) (2005) ; 581-599 - An integrated transformative process model for social innovation in cities
Author(s): Wagner, P., Wilhelmer, D.
Journal: Procedia Engineering, 198 (2017) ; 935-947 - Policy experiments: A response to rapidly changing societal environments
Author(s): Biegelbauer, P., Wagner, P., Hargassner-Delpos, M.
Journal: fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation , 46 (2018) ; 29-32 - FIT4FOOD2030: Future-proofing Europe’s Food Systems with Tools for Transformation and a Sustainable Food Systems Network
Author(s): Baungaard, C., Kok, C.P.W., den Boer, A.C.L, Brierley, C., an der Meij, M.G.., Dahl Gjefsen, M., Wenink, J., Wagner, P., Gemen, R., Regeer, B.J., Broerse, J.E.W.
Journal: Nutrition Bulletin, 46 (2) (2021) ; 172-184 - Transformation Rooms: Building Transformative Capacity for European Cities
Author(s): Haindlmaier G., Wagner P., Willhelmer D.
Journal: International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities , 2 (2021) ; 48-69
- Communities of Practices;
Creating and Managing a Technology Economy
Author(s): M. Hörlesberger, P. Wagner-Luptacik
Publisher: World Scientific; Singapore; 2010; 381 - 399; 978-981-4313-38-4
Series: F. Betz; T. M. Khalil; Y. Hosni; H. Mostafa - Design Thinking;
Theoretical Approaches to Social Innovation
Author(s): Butzin, A., Davis, A., Domanski, D., Dhondt, S., Howaldt, J., Kaletka, C., Kesselring, A., Kopp, R., Millard, J., Oeij, P., Rehfeld, D., Schaper-Rinkel, P., Schwartz, M., Scoppetta, A., Wagner, P., Weber, M.
Publisher: Social Innovation : Driving Force of Social Change (SI-Drive); Dortmund, Germany; 2014
Series: Social Innovation : Driving Force of Social Change (SI-Drive)
- A participatory approach towards 'responsible' health research and innovation
Author(s): Wagner P., Buchinger E., Kienegger E.
Conference 9th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics, Matera, Italy
Proceedings Carlucci D., Spender JC, Schiuma G.; IFKAD 2014 - Knowledge Management Models for Sustainable Growth; 1710-1719 - Research and innovation policy labs as instruments for food system transformation
Author(s): Wagner P., Wepner B.
Conference International Sustainability Transitions, Ottawa, Canada
- Research and innovation to meet Europe’s challenges (2013)
University of Twente - Knowledge and Technology Transfer Instruments (2018)
University of Applied Science Technikum, Vienna
Further Information
- Publications AIT publications database