Robert Tijssen
Professor emeritus of Science and Innovation Studies
- Name
- Prof.dr. R.J.W. Tijssen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- tijssen@cwts.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5237-9583
Emeritus professor of Science and Innovation Studies at Leiden University. Professor at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Robert’s current interests focus on contributions of universities and higher education institutions to local or regional socio-economic development.
Robert Tijssen is emeritus professor at Leiden University since May 2021. He is one of the founding staff members of CWTS.
Robert is also affiliated to the African Studies Centre at Leiden University. His professional ties to Africa include a professorship at Stellenbosch University (South Africa), and board membership of South Africa’s DST-NRF Center of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciSTIP).
He is also one of the project leaders at the LDE International Center of Frugal Innovation - a collaborative initiative of the Leiden, Delft and Erasmus universities in the Netherlands - as well as an international research partner and co-investigator at the Centre for Global Higher Education (United Kingdom).
His scholarly interests and research activities cover a range of topics within science, technology and innovation studies, as well as related issues in higher education studies. Addressing information gaps and policy-relevant questions, a significant share of Robert’s current academic activities focusses on measuring and mapping the varied contributions of universities and higher education institutions to local or regional socio-economic development. The latest additions to his research portfolio include an EC-funded study of European research-intensive, traditional universities as well as a series of case studies among of Universities of Applied Sciences in Europe.
Robert’s expertise includes several decades of commissioned work in science policy and research management projects. Most of his advisory and consultancy work relates to monitoring and evaluation of university performance, with a strong focus on the development and application of analytical tools and indicators in the context of quality assurance systems, reward and incentive systems, knowledge transfer mechanisms, and commercialization of university research, indicator-based assessments of research programs, and developing evaluation systems of regional innovation impact by universities.
Google Scholar Citations provides a full bibliographic overview of his academic research, comprising more than 250 publications that have accumulated more than 9 000 citations in the global academic literature.
Professor emeritus of Science and Innovation Studies
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- CWTS
- Tijssen R.J.W. (17 June 2011). Van wetenschap naar innovatie: Over wensdromen en kennisstromen. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (13 May 2008), Wetenschaps- en Technologie-Indicatoren 2008. Voordracht voor Stichting FOM. Utrecht. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (28 August 2008), Wetenschaps- en Technologie-Indicatoren 2008 en 2009. Voordracht Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen. Den Haag. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (28 July 2008), Are we moving towards an integrated European Research Area?. 4th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & 9th COLLNET meeting. Berlijn. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (18 November 2008), Globalisation of scientific research within Europe’s biopharmaceutical companies. INIR ”Global Lab” Research Seminar. Leuven. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (14 November 2008), Measuring Philips research performance: CWTS bibliometric analyses of research publication output and citation impact. Presentation at Philips Research. Eindhoven. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (5 November 2008), Bibliometrics for public and private foundations: A toolbox for assessing research proposals and results of research projects. European Forum on Philantrophy and Research Funding. Brussel. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (17 April 2008), What is Evaluation: Taking stock of the issues”; My Evaluation: How would I go about evaluation. Seminar “Evaluating Research Outcomes and Impacts, European Foundation Centre – European Forum on Philantrophy and Research Funding. Brussel, Belgie. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. & Leeuwen T.N. van (18 September 2008), University-Indystry research cooperation within the world’s largest universities: international comparative indicators of intensity, proximity, and preferences. 10th Science & Technology Indicators Conference. Wenen. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (24 November 2008), Identifying international scientific excellence: Bibliometric analyses of top research groups in the Netherlands. UK Evaluation Forum workshop, Wellcome Trust. London. [lecture].
- Hoekman J., Frenken K. & Tijssen R.J.W. (15 April 2008), The geography of collaborative knowledge production in Europe. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG 2008). Boston. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. & Leeuwen T.N. van (25 June 2007), Research cooperation within Europe: bibliometric views of geographical trends and integration processes. 11th International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics, Madrid, Spanje. Madrid, Spain. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (18 May 2007), Impacts of global innovation systems on the European science base: empirical analysis of R&D within Europe’s pharmaceutical industry. workshop “The Political Economy of Research. Florence, Italy. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (29 November 2007), Bibliometrische evaluatie van onderzoeksprestaties en wetenschappelijke impact,. Informatiebijeenkomst van Nederlandse Gezondheidsfondsen ‘Impact van Onderzoek’, Utrecht. Utrecht. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (26 November 2007), International rankings of SA science: bibliometric comparisons of SA research universities with the world’s top universities. Research Directors’ Forum, Wallenberg Centre/STIAS, Stellenbosch University. Stellenbosch, South Africa. [lecture].
- Looy B. van, Hansen W., Hollanders H. & Tijssen R.J.W. (2 October 2007), Using concordance tables to disentagle performance dynamics of HT manufacturing industries: an empirical assessment of national innovation systems. EPO/OECD/DIME Conference on Patent Statistics for Policy Decision Making, Venetië, Italië. Venetie, Italie. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (23 January 2006), Science journals and developing countries: Towards journal-based bibliometric indicators of research interactions between academia and industry. Africa PRIME Workshop. Lund, Sweden. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (17 March 2006), International benchmarking of research performance in the field of clinical pharmacology: the case of ‘Randomized Controlled Trials’. NEFARMA workshop. The Hague. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (7 September 2006), Centres of research excellence and science indicators: towards top-down nation-wide measurements of institutional research excellence. 9th Science and Technology Indicators Conference. Leuven, Belgium. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. & Leeuwen T.N. van (7 September 2006), Centres of research excellence and science indicators: can ‘Excellenec’ be captured in numbers ?. 9th International Conference on Science & Technology Indicators. Leuven. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (6 September 2006), Measuring international scientific impact of local research in developing countries: an African case study. ASC-CODESRIA Conference Bridging the North-South Divide in Scholarly Communication on Africa. Threats and Opportunities in the Digital era. Leiden. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (17 June 2005), University Entrepreneurial Potential, towards models and internationally comparative indicators. Conference "The Role of Universities in Innovation Systems". Florence, Italy. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (1 November 2005), The hidden treasures within basic science of developing countries: quantitative indicators of where and how corporate science is using research outputs from the less developed countries. Globelics Africa Conference. Pretoria, South Adrica. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (14 March 2005), Rankings of research universities: the good, the bad and the unfortunate. seminar "10 Years on the CREST". Stellenbosch, South Africa. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (7 May 2005), International benchmarking and bibliometric monitoring of research performance in the social sciences. ESRC Seminar on Social Science Bibliometrics, Royal Society. London, UK. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (12 October 2004), Meting van valorisatie-prestaties van Nederlandse universiteiten: utopie of haalbare kaart?. Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy (AWT). Den Haag. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. & Leeuwen T.N. van (23 September 2004), Measuring the impact of academic science on industrial research. 8th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators. Leiden. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (11 May 1999), Het belang van Nederlands wetenschappelijk onderzoek voor technologische innovaties: kwantitatieve analyse van octrooien. CWTS Seminars Leiden.Univ. Teaching activities. Leiden (The Netherlands). [lecture].
- Raan A.F.J. van, Moed H.F. & Tijssen R.J.W. (1 September 1999), College: Cognitive and Structural Development of Scientific and Technological Knowledge (in Dutch). lectures national, CWTS-college. Leiden Univ, Leiden (The Netherlands). [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (28 October 1998), The importance of science for technology and the economy. Seminars CWTS, Leiden Univ. Teaching activities: lecture. Leiden. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. & Raan A.F.J. van (26 September 1997), Wetenschappelijk rendement voor onderzoekinstellingen. Symposium Effectiviteit in EU-onderzoek, St. Science Alliance. The Hague. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. & Wijk E. van (13 June 1997), The global science base of Information and Communication Technologies: bibliometric indicators of R&D activities. Meeting European Commission/TSER. Brussels, Belgium. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. (14 March 1997), Evaluatie van R&D-netwerken. Seminars CWTS (staff & visitors), Leiden Univ.. Leiden. [lecture].
- Tijssen R.J.W. & Wijk E. van (3 October 1997), The global science base of Information and Communication Technologies: bibliometric macro-level analysis R&D activities in the Triad. Meeting European Commission/TSER. Paris, France. [lecture].