Dr Dr.Phil. René von Schomberg is a philosopher and an STS scholar. He graduated as an agricultural scientist from Wageningen University, was a European Union Fellow at George Mason University (USA) in 2007, and was with the European Commission from 1998 to 2021. René is currently a senior research fellow at the Kate Hamburger Kolleg, International Centre for advanced studies: Cultures of Research, RWTH university of Aachen, Germany. He is also a Guest Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

In episode 6, René von Schomberg (Brussels, Belgium) kindly shares his experience and the latest on innovation policies and programmes designed to improve the quality of our innovation systems and encourage us to become agents of socially desirable change.