# Floor Alkemade

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**Parent**: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/innovation-sciences/technology-innovation-society

Full Professor

# Floor Alkemade

- [PURE url](https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/floor-alkemade/ "Research Portal")

##### Contact

[f.alkemade@tue.nl](#)

[+31 40 247 7325](tel:+31402477325)

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##### Department / Institute

[EAISI](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/eaisi)

[Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences](https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/departments/industrial-engineering-and-innovation-sciences)

[EIRES](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/eires)

##### Group

EAISI Mobility

[Technology, Innovation & Society](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/innovation-sciences/technology-innovation-society)

EIRES Research

## RESEARCH PROFILE

Floor Alkemade is a Full Professor and Chair of Economics and Governance of Technological Innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).  Her key areas of expertise include innovation, cleantech and sustainability. Floor’s research goal is to identify the general and the location-specific mechanisms that lead to successful innovations for sustainability. Together with a group of PhD students, Floor uses data-driven and simulation approaches to analyze innovation for sustainability at different scales. Examples are the behavior electric vehicle owners in smart grids and, the eco-innovation capacities of countries.

## ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Floor Alkemade is full professor Economics and Governance of Technological Innovation. She received an ERC Consolidator grant (2022), a Vidi grant (2014) and a Veni grant (2008) to work on research projects on innovation for sustainability. Previously she was affiliated with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and the Dutch National Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI).

Floor Alkemade received her PhD in Agent Based Evolutionary Economics, from TU/e in 2004. Her PhD work was done at the Dutch National Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI). She holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from VU University Amsterdam. After her PhD she joined the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University.  Floor is associate editor of the  Journal of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. In 2015 she joined the Technological, Innovation and Society group at TU/e.

## Recent Publications

- [See all publications](https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/floor-alkemade//publications/)

- [### Versnellen van de energietransitie door arbeidsbesparende innovatie?

  (2026)

  Floor Alkemade,Ivo Wakounig](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/545bc668-44a9-44fe-a5ec-01c99afe4f43)
- [### Quantifying the potential of energy communities in renewable electricity generation in The Netherlands

  Energy Research and Social Science

  (2026)

  Naud Loomans,Leila Niamir,Caroline Zimm,Floor Alkemade](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/bb480cb6-e463-4210-90ab-3baf40132800)
- [### A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them

  Sustainability Science

  (2026)

  Timothy M. Lenton,Thomas W.R. Powell,Steven R. Smith,Frank W. Geels,Floor Alkemade,Martina Ayoub,Pete Barbrook-Johnson,Scarlett Benson,Fenna Blomsma,Chris A. Boulton](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/bb2e6de1-4a16-4794-8f17-274fe7ceedff)
- [### Exploring opportunities and limits of energy citizenship in Dutch heat transitions

  Energy Research and Social Science

  (2025)

  Nikki T.T.M. Kluskens,Johanna I. Höffken,Floor Alkemade](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/ccea4dee-6a5a-4f38-ac2d-2f83f03f6cc2)
- [### Learning in green hydrogen production

  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

  (2025)

  Francesco Pasimeni,Daniele Melideo,Umberto Desideri,Floor Alkemade](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/fde056b9-627d-4a14-941f-874c544f1971)

## Current Educational Activities

- [Governing innovations](https://tue.osiris-student.nl/#/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus/?cursuscode=0EM120&collegejaar=2025)
- [Sustainability challenge: the future city of 1.5 degrees](https://tue.osiris-student.nl/#/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus/?cursuscode=0SK30&collegejaar=2025)

## Ancillary Activities

- member scientific board, Netherlands Energy Research Alliance (NERA)
- Lid Expertisekring Klimaat, Raad van State - afdeling advisering
- Lid missieteam Systeemintegratie, Topsector Energie