"Evaluation enables organisations to learn."
Focal areas of work
- Evaluation of research, technology and innovation policy
- Analysis and support of innovation processes and systems
- Technology impact assessment and foresight
- Design and application of new methods of strategy development and technology foresight
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Sonja R. Kind studied biology with a focus on molecular biology at the University of Cologne. In 1999, she finished her Master of Science (Diplomarbeit) with honours. Sonja Kind completed her Ph.D. thesis in social and economic sciences at the University of Bamberg. She was enrolled in the scholarship programme "EXIST-HighTEPP – HighTechnology Entrepreneurship Post Graduate Programme".
Before joining VDI/VDE-IT in 2005, she worked as a consultant in a strategy consultancy based in Berlin. Since 2009, she has been coordinating the expertise area of evaluation in the iit.
Sonja Kind has also, for many years, been involved in DeGEval – Gesellschaft für Evaluation e.V. where she heads the working group "evaluation in businesses" and is a member of the working group "evaluation of research, technology and innovation policy".
Publications
- Cluster Impact Analysis : The real cluster case (2013)
- Developing Successful Creative & Cultural Clusters: Measuring their outcomes and impacts with new framework tools (2012)
- Evaluation concept for clusters and networks: Prerequisites of a common and joint evaluation system (2012)
- Evaluation of Clusters, Networks and Cluster Policies – Challenges and Implementation : iit perspektive 14 (2013)
- The evaluation of Germany’s Industrial Collective Research’ (IGF): Abstract of the Final Report 12/2013 (2015)