Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISINicholas Martin graduated with degrees in History and Chinese Studies from Cambridge (BA 2005) and Oxford (MPhil 2007) Universities, bevor obtaining a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, with a dissertation on "Media Coverage, Industrial Policy, and Safety: Explaining Shifting State and Private Ownership in China’s Coal Industry". He also studied Chinese for a year at National Taiwan University's International Chinese Language Program. He worked as a research and teaching assistant at the MIT Political Science Department (2010-2011, 2013) and at the MIT Industrial Performance Center (2014-2015), as well as as a management consultant for LWS Unternehmensberatung (2014-2015) and OC&C Strategy Consulting (2016-2017). He joined Fraunhofer ISI's Competence Center for Emerging Technologies in July 2017 as a senior researcher.
Dr. Nicholas Martin
Work focus
- Effects of Regulation on Innovation
- Digital Platforms
- Digital Politics and Public-Sector Digitisation
- Privacy and Data Protection
- Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Technology Assessment
Futher research areas
- Chinese politics and China's economy
- Innovation policy and innovation systems
Projects
- Study on the costs and benefits of innovation-sensitive legislation
- Interactions between the process of digitalization and the transition to a green economy
- IMPULSE: Identity Management in PUbLic SErvices
- Digitale Geschäftsmodelle mit selbstbestimmten Anwendern für smarte Verteilnetze
- TetRRIS: Territorial Responsible Research and Innovation and Smart Specialisation
- Forum Privatheit und selbstbestimmtes Leben in der digitalen Welt
- Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung (DSFA) für die betriebliche und behördliche Praxis
- Strengthening the Advanced Manufacturing Ecosystem in Massachusetts
Publications
- Martin, N., Ebbers, F. (2021): When Regulatory Power and Industrial Policy Ambitions Collide: The Brussels Effect, Lead-Market Formation, and the GDPR (working paper).
- Hallinan, D., Martin, N. (2020): Fundamental rights, the normative keystone of DPIA. In: European data protection law review : Edpl 6 (2020), Nr.2, S.178-193.
- Martin, N., Friedewald, M., Schiering, I., Mester, B., Hallinan, D., Jensen, M. (2020): The Data Protection Impact Assessment According to Article 35 GDPR. A Practitioner’s Manual. Stuttgart: Fraunhofer Verlag.
- Martin, N., (2020): Corona-Eindämmung in Taiwan: Nur digitale Tools? In: DuD: Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 44 (2020), Nr.12, S.815-818.
- Martin, N., Matt, C., Niebel, C., Blind, K. (2019): How data protection regulation affects startup innovation. In: Information Systems Frontiers 21 (2019), Nr.6, S.1307-1324.
- Martin, N.; Friedewald, M. (in print): Data Protection Impact Assessments, Meta-Regulation and Practical ‚Responsible Research and Innovation’ in the Data Economy. In Grifoni, P. (Ed.): Responsible Research and Innovation: The Challenge of Information and Communication Technologies. Cham: Springer.
- Martin, N. und Matt, C. (2018): Unblackboxing the Effects of Privacy Regulation on Firm Innovation. Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco.
- Martin, N.; Karaboga, M. (2018): Datenschutz zwischen regulatorischer Reform und soziotechnischer Revolution. In: TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung, Vol. 27, Nr. 1, pp. 70-73.
- Rossnagel, A. et al. (2018): Datenschutz Stärken, Innovation Ermöglichen. Wie man den Koalitionsvertrag ausgestalten sollte. Policy Paper Project Forum Privatheit.
- Rossnagel, A. et al. (2018): Das Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz. Policy Paper Project Forum Privatheit.
- Bieker, F.; Martin, N.; Friedewald, M.; Hansen, M. (2018): Data Protection Impact Assessments: A Hands-on Tour of the GDPR’s most Practical Tool. In: Hansen et al. (Eds.) Privacy and Identity Management. The Smart Revolution. Cham: Springer, pp. 207-220. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92925-5_13
- Friedewald, M. et al. (2017): Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung. Ein Werkzeug für einen besseren Datenschutz. White Paper Project Forum Privatheit.
- Friedewald, M.; Martin, N. (2017): Vorgehen bei Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzungen. In: BVD-News 03, pp. 41-45.
- Reynolds, E.; Uygun, Y.; Lester, R. K.; Martin, N.; Pincet, A. (2015): Strengthening the Innovation Ecosystem for Advanced Manufacturing: Pathways and Opportunities for Massachusetts. Cambidge: MIT Industrial Performance Center.