Stijn Zegel
Partner
Stijn Zegel works as a Partner at Technopolis B.V. in Amsterdam. Stijn focuses on the knowledge economy in relation to public policy. Topics often relate to innovation, entrepreneurship, ecosystems, clusters, SMEs, internationalisation, education & skills and collaboration & public-private partnerships. He contributes frequently to complex evaluations, strategic studies, large scale implementation projects and other studies. Methodologies that he frequently applies are surveys, interviews, case studies, workshops, (big) data/statistical analyses, data-management, (international) benchmarking and data visualisation. He has been actively working on projects on European/international, national and regional level. Next to his consultancy work Stijn takes part in the Management Team of Technopolis Group Amsterdam and acts as the supervisor of a third of the team.
Stijn worked on large complex assignments for the European Commission like the analysis of SME Internationalisation instruments across the EU, Africa-Europe Innovation Partnership, the Impact Assessment of the Institutionalised Partnerships under Horizon Europe and evaluations of the SME Internationalisation instruments, Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) programme, the SME Instrument and the Enterprise Europe Network. In these evaluation studies Stijn took the lead in the evaluation of the strategic objective ‘Access to markets’ and managed the data gathering and analyses for a large number of national/regional support agencies and SMEs across the EU and beyond. Next to that Stijn has worked on many national/regional assignments. In the Netherlands, he led from Technopolis various evaluations and studies for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate and RVO, such as the Innovation Credit, SME Innovation Stimulation Region and Top Sectors (MIT), ERDF Programme, Intellectual Property Rights Policy, WBSO Pharmacy Letter, process innovation, Partners for International Business (PIB) and TTW Perspective. Outside the Netherlands, Stijn led the impact analysis and evaluation of World-class Ecosystems in Finland and worked on the Cluster Policy in Flanders.
Furthermore, Stijn worked as a project manager (‘quartermaster’) on the design and implementation of a Growth Fund project, the LLO-Katalysator and Stijn actively works on other assignments focused on human capital, such as the Techniekpact, GroenvermogenNL, LLO practice exploration (SER), PPS peer review instrument (Katapult) and SME portfolio (VLAIO), and an H2020 project focused on the effects of (automation) technologies on the labour market, work, up-/reskilling and the competence issue.
Prior to joining Technopolis Group, Stijn studied Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), during which he studied technological innovations in both the private and public sector from a policy perspective. During his master’s degree in the Netherlands and a semester abroad in Gothenburg, Sweden (2010), Stijn focused more on the knowledge economy and entrepreneurship.
Stijn is fluent in Dutch and English.
