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Johan Schot is professor in social history of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Twente. He is scientific director of the Foundation for the History of Technology, and also Co-directing the Foundation for Systems Innovation (KSI). He has been program leader of the National Research Program on the History of Technology in the Netherlands in the 20th century. This program included the publication of a series of seven volumes, Ph. D. theses, monographs, and scientific and popular articles, and contributions to exhibitions, policy workshops and websites for teaching and the publication. He is co-founder (together with Kurt Fischer) of the Greening of Industry Network and projectleader of several EU funded international projects. He is chairing (with Ruth Oldenziel) the European Science Foundation Network Tensions of Europe, Technology in the Making of Twentieth Century Europe. He is also responsible for developing a larger research program of the KSI Foundation on historical understandings of long-term change. In 2002 he was awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under the Innovational Research Incentives scheme for talented scholars (highest category) a research grant to establish his own research program. See www.tie-project.nl. In 2009 Johan Schot was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).