Anastasiia Konstantynova

Principal Consultant

Offices: Netherlands

Email: anastasiia.konstantynova@technopolis-group.com

Anastasiia Konstantynova is a Principal consultant at Technopolis (Amsterdam office) and has over 15 years’ experience in development projects related to industry, research and innovation. Her specific focus lies in the field of industrial clusters, business transformation and international cooperation in Europe and beyond, especially in the countries of Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America.

At Technopolis Anastasiia has been leading a wide range of projects and evaluations for such clients as DG GROW, DG RTD, AFDB and UNIDO. Example of her projects include design of monitoring framework for the value chain analysis as part of UNIDO SWITCH to circular project; monitoring science, technology and innovation in the EaP countries, part of the Global Service Facility for DG RTD; assessing the impact of war in Ukraine on the European science, technology and innovation landscape for Japan Science and Technology Agency, as well as running EU4Business Facility Phase III project for DG NEAR. Prior to joining Technopolis, Anastasiia worked in industry – Lufthansa Systems, strategy consulting, business support agency – Steinbeis Europa Zentrum, research at Orkestra – Basque Institute of Competitiveness and development agency, UNIDO. Together with Steinbeis and as a part of Cluster Agentur Baden-Wuttemberg she was supporting clusters, SMEs, start-ups and midcaps on their development and growth pathways, especially from technology transfer and innovation side. Before that at Orkestra Basque Institute of Competitiveness Anastasiia worked on a range of projects focusing on territorial competitiveness, cluster policies and smart specialisation strategies in the Basque country and other European regions (e.g. Interreg project CLUSTERS3 and TCI Network). In parallel, she was also advising various regional, national and international policy and decision-making organizations, like UNIDO, European Commission, GIZ.

Anastasiia has successfully defended her doctoral thesis (magna cum laude) focusing on the evaluation of regional economic development and cluster policies – case study of the Basque Country and Upper Austria. Prior to that she has graduated with master’s in international relations from the same institution – Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt (Germany).

Originally from Ukraine she is native in Ukrainian, fluent in English, German, Spanish, Russian and has some basic understanding in Dutch and Polish.