Researcher Profile

Field: Institutional Change and Policy Instruments

Main Research: Foresight, Innovation Systems

Experience: Susanne Giesecke is a political scientist and joined AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Department of Innovations Systems in 2005 as a Senior Scientist. She leads the research area “Foresight” and is engaged in publicly funded research as well as in consulting projects. Her main focus of work is qualitative innovation research, national innovations systems and competitiveness, technology policy (especially in areas of new and emerging technologies), technology assessment; evaluation of R&D programmes and foresight. Susanne Giesecke has worked in projects for both national and European public administrations in Austria and abroad. Susanne Giesecke was project manager of the European Foresight Platform (EFP). Among other foresight projects, she has been working on the first European security foresight: FORESEC – Europe’s evolving security and is presently contributing to some projects in the context of AAL (ambient assisted living). Presently she is coordinating the FP7 Foresight Project on Personalized Health Systems

• 2005-2014: Senior Scientist
  AIT / Austria
• 2000-2005: Senior Researcher
  VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik / Germany
• 1999-2000: Lecturer
  Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration / Austria
• 1998-1999: Lecturer
  Technical University of Munich / Germany
• 2012-2013: Visiting Scientist
  CGEE Centro de Gestao e Estudos Estratégicos / Brazil
• 2010-2011: Visiting Scientist
  ISO Institut für Sozialforschung und Sozialökonomie / Germany

• 1986: Carthage College Foreign Exchange Student Grant
• 1995: Nachwuchsausbildungsförderung Berlin
• 1997: German Marshall Fund Fellowship for PhD research activities in the US

• “Innovationssysteme von Nationen, Regionen und Technologien“ [A Survey on Innovation Frameworks for Nations, Regions and Technologies].
  Author(s): Giesecke, S.
  Journal: Politische Vierteljahreszeitschrift, No. 1, 2000 (2000) ; 135-146
• “Radikale Innovationen bei Spitzentechnologien.“ [Radical Innovations for Front-End Technologies]
  Author(s): Giesecke, S.
  Journal: WechselWirkung, No. 122 July–August (2003) ; 26–29.
• Foresight as a New Form of Political Participation and Deliberate Democracy?
  Author(s): Giesecke, S.
  Journal: Maintenance Problems – Special Issue on Foresight and Technology Transfer, 3/2010 (78) (2010) ; 7-24
• Woher wissen wir, was wir fördern sollen? Foresight als Instrument für strategische Forschungs- und Innovationspolitik in der Stadt
  Author(s): Giesecke, S.
  Journal: In: Zeit für einen neuen PUSH, das Wiener Forschungsfest und der Wiener Weg XING, 18/2010 (2010) ; 26-32
• “Improving Participatory Aspects in Foresight”
  Author(s): Giesecke, S.
  Journal: Futures (2014)
• “Bridging the 'Policy' and 'Polity' with Foresight to enable Democratic Participation in Policy Making
  Author(s): Cagnin, C., Giesecke, S., Loveridge, D., Saritas, Ö.
  Journal: Futures (2014)

• FLA as a Means of Prticipation in Modern Democratic Decision Making;
  The Role of Forward-Looking Activities for the Governance of Grand Challenges“
  Author(s): Giesecke, S (ed.)
  Publisher: ; Vienna; 2012; 978-3-200-02811-1
  Series: Giesecke, S (ed.) ; AIT

• Personal Health Systems Foresight
  Author(s): Giesecke, S.
  Conference ETSI e-Health Workshop on Telemedicine, Sophia Antipolis
• Personal Health Systems - A SWOT Analysis
  Author(s): Gieseckes, S
  Conference Theranostics for Personalised Medicine, Bologna
• Personal Health Systems Research - Charting the European Landscape
  Author(s): Schreier, G., Schartinger, D., Giesecke, S., Heller-Schuh, B., Amanatidou, E., Miles, I., Pompo-Juarez, L., Saritas, Ö.,
  Conference 11th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, Vienna
  Proceedings Schreier, G. et al.; 11th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health
• Personal Health Systems Foresight. Visions on Innovations and Societal Demands
  Author(s): Modre-Osprian, R., Schreier, G., Schartinger, D., Giesecke, S., Heller-Schuh, B., Amanatidou, E., Miles, I., Pompo-Juarez, L., Saritas, Ö.,
  Conference Med-e-tel THE INTERNATIONAL eHEALTH, TELEMEDICINE AND HEALTH ICT FORUM, Luxemburg

• Project homepage European Foresight Platform
• Project homepage Personal Health Systems Foresight
• Project homepage Forward Visions on the European Research AREA
• Project homepage Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation
• Project homepage International Foresight Academy
• Organized conference EFP Final Event “Forward Looking Activities Governing Grand Challenges”
• Publications AIT publications database
• CV as pdf