Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Rotmans, J. Author-Name-Last: Rotmans Author-Name-First: Jan Title: Societal Innovation: between dream and reality lies complexity Abstract: Jan Rotmans (1961) is one of the founders of Integrated Assessment (IA), and has outstanding experience in IA modeling, scenario-building, uncertainty management and transition management. During the past twenty years he has led a diversity of innovative projects in the field of climate change, global change, sustainable development and transitions and system innovations. He is founder and director of the International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS) (1998) at Maastricht University. Since 2004 he is a full professor in Transitions and Transition Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where he founded the DRIFT-institute: Dutch Research Institute For Transitions. He is vice-president of The Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS), and founder and director of the Dutch Knowledge Network on System Innovations and Transitions (KSI). Jan Rotmans is founder of two scientific journals, Environmental Modeling and Assessment and Integrated Assessment, and has published ten books and more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles in journals and books in the fields of environment, sustainability, governance, transitions and system innovations. Creation-Date: 2005-06-03 File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/7293/EIA-2005-026-ORG%209058921050%20ROTMANS.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Series: RePEc:ems:euriar Classification-JEL: F23, M, M14, O39, P51 Keywords: complex systems, corporate social responsibility, governance, interdisciplinary, social theory, societal innovation, sustainable development, system innovations, transition management, transitions Handle: RePEc:ems:euriar:7293