Robert Tijssen is emeritus professor of science and innovation studies at Leiden University. He is one of the founding staff members of CWTS. He is also an emeritus professor at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He is now active as research fellow at CWTS and CREST (Stellenbosch University). Robert is affiliated to the African Studies Centre at Leiden University.

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Robert Tijssen is emeritus professor of science and innovation studies at Leiden University. He is one of the founding staff members of CWTS. He is also an emeritus professor at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He is now active as research fellow at CWTS and CREST (Stellenbosch University). Robert is affiliated to the African Studies Centre at Leiden University.

Robert’s expertise includes several decades of commissioned work in science policy advisory projects - in the Netherlands, Europe and Africa. Most of his advisory and consultancy work relates to the development and application of analytics and indicators for monitoring and evaluating of universities and their research performance. His empirical studies cover a range of topics, including on research excellence, reward and incentive systems, frugal innovation, knowledge transfer mechanisms, commercialization of university research and patenting, and regional innovation impact of universities.

Robert’s current research activities focus mainly on identifying and mapping contributions of research-active universities to local or regional socio-economic development.

Google Scholar Citations provides a full bibliographic overview of his academic research output stretching back to the 1980s, comprising more than 250 publications and including several books, having accumulated more than 10 000 citations in the global academic literature.

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