Researcher

Edwin Verberght

Research Expertise:Expert in inland navigation. Worked around policy, innovation, greening, automation, ports, waterways and market. Publications and professional experience in all sides of the quadruple helix at the side of civil society, private sector, policy makers and academic world. Worked with different methods such as cost-benefit analysis, SI analysis, external costs calculations, surveys, Delphi and so on, from a qualitative and quantitative approach. PhD since 2020 with a case study about innovation on the European Waterways.

Keywords:INLAND NAVIGATION, TRANSPORT, PORT, AUTOMATISCHE VAART, INNOVATIONS, Economics and applied economics

Disciplines:Applied economics, Business administration and accounting, Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth, Management, Mathematical and quantitative methods, Other economics and business, Economic geography, Other social sciences, Business economics, International economics, Law and economics, Personnel economics, Transport economics, Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth not elsewhere classified, Economic development policy, Policy and administration not elsewhere classified, Regionalisation and decentralisation, Multilevel governance not elsewhere classified, Belgian public administration, International public administration

Research techniques:System Innovation analysis (SIA) to uncover obstacles for innovations; CBA to advise private investors or policy makers while taking the private costs and external costs into account; Policy analysis of institutional settings and quantifying transaction costs; Indicator inventory: collecting and analysing relevant data and convert data into indicators with trend analysis; Interviews: understandable questions tailor-made with consistency and reliability; Familiarity with accident casuistry.

Users of research expertise:Investors, academia, civil society, knowledge centra, students, media