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The Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS)
has a vacancy for a
Ph.D. student position
(assistent in opleiding) for four years.
The Ph.D. project is entitled:

Mobility Diffusion, the Automobile and the Road
towards a Dutch Style Modal Split


This project studies the quantitative diffusion of
durable consumption
goods, especially the automobile and other
transport modes in Europe. As
such, it contributes to the Mobility Theme within
the recently started
European research project called Tensions of
Europe. The focus is on the
role of the automobile within the history of the
modal split in transport,
with the Dutch automobile as a special case. The
project includes the
analysis of a large, existing body of historical
statistical data on
infrastructure, vehicle ownership and performance
and traffic accidents and
the development, testing and comparison of several
diffusion models.

Applicants should have an MA or equivalent in
history , economics or
mathematics, with some knowledge of the
quantitative anaysis of data. Also,
engineering students with an MSc grade and a
special interest in
quantitative analysis are welcome to apply.

ECIS offers relevant Ph.D training, so prior
knowledge of the specific field
is not necessary. The position is salaried, with
the salary ranging from
2261 gld. per month in the first year (plus a
bonus of 692 gld.) to 4037
gld. in the fourth year.

The Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies is
based at the Faculty of
Technology Management of Eindhoven University of
Technology. The institute
was established in 1999 and brings together
top-quality researchers from
various disciplines, including economics, law,
history, management studies
and sociology.

This project will be supervised by dr. Bart
Verspagen, Professor of
Economics and Technological Change and dr. Gijs
Mom, Assistant Professor in
the History of Technology and Program Director
Transport History at the
Foundation for the History of Technology,
Eindhoven University of
Technology. For more information please contact
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description is available on request.


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