Professor Robert Tijssen
Leiden University (Netherlands)
Robert Tijssen is Professor Emeritus of Science and Innovation Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 1.3, ‘Higher education’s engagement with industry: metrics and indicators of boundary spanning UK academics’.
Robert is also a Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
His research specialisation is the intersection between science, innovation and higher education systems, focusing mainly on university Research & Development performance issues, knowledge flows, and technological innovation. Robert contributes to the Leiden Ranking of research universities.
CGHE publications
CGHE research projects
Select recent publications
- Localisation, regionalisation and globalisation of university-business research cooperation in the United Kingdom
Papers in Regional Science, 2020
