Tim Flink

since 04 2010
PhD Scholarship (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for the Research Training Group 'Entering the Knowledge Society: Science in Applied and Advisory Contexts' at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies (IWT), University of Bielefeld

since 04 2009
Doctoral thesis on the Institutionalisation of the European Research Council (ERC)

09 2008 - 04 2009
Research fellow in a research project with the President of the WZB on an internationally comparative study of science diplomacy in selected target regions; together with Ulrich Schreiterer and Christine Puschman

09 2007 - 05 2008
Post-graduate research training at Manchester Business School & Manchester Institute for Innovation Research

02 2006 - 08 2007
Personal assistant to the Director at KoWi, Brussels

2004 - 2005
Internships at the EU Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) in Brussels, and in the Committee of Education, Research and Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (Parliament)

2001 - 2006
Studies of Political Science and English & American Studies at Bremen University and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques Lille (ERASMUS student mobility programme)

• Flink, Tim/Schreiterer, Ulrich (2010): "Science Diplomacy at the Intersection of S&T Policies and Foreign Affairs. Toward a Typology of National Approaches". In: Science & Public Policy, Vol. 37, No. 9, S. 665-677.
• Knie, Andreas/Simon, Dagmar/Flink, Tim (2010): "Akademische Unternehmensgründungen. Über den schwierigen Nachweis der Nützlichkeit öffentlicher Forschungsförderung". In: Leviathan, Jg. 38, H. 4, S. 489-508.
• Flink, Tim/Schreiterer, Ulrich (2009): "Sanfte Macht und harte Interessen. Außenwissenschaftspolitik hat Konjunktur". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 125, S. 27-29.
• Flink, Tim (2009): "Aussenwissenschaftspolitik. Ein neues Handlungsfeld?". In: Forschung, Politik - Strategie - Management, Jg. 2, H. 3/4, S. 69-79.