Dr. Koen Beumer

Dr. Koen Beumer

Universitair docent
Innovation and Sustainability
030 253 7533

2024

Stemerding, D., Beumer, K. & Swart, J.A.A. (2024). Rechtvaardigheid en eerlijkheid bij de toegang tot genetische gewasdiversiteit. Podium voor Bio-Ethiek 30(4): 38-44.

2023

Beumer, K. & De Roij, S. (2023). Inclusive innovation in crop gene editing for smallholder farmers: Status and approaches. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1): 00089. 

Bulah, B., Negro, S.O., Beumer, K., Hekkert, M.P. (2023). Institutional work as a key ingredient of food innovation success: The case of plant-based proteins. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 47: 100697.

Stemerding, D., Beumer, K., Edelenbosch, R., Swart, J.A.A., de Vries, M.E., ter Steeg, E., Almekinders, C.J.M., Lindhout, P., van Dijk, L.C.M., Struik, P.C. (2023). Responsible Innovation in Plant Breeding: The Case of Hybrid Potato Breeding. Plants 12, 1751. 

Beumer, K. & Almekinders, C.J.M. (2023). Hybrid potato breeding for smallholder farmers: four models for public-private collaboration. In: P.C. Struik, P.R. Gildemacher, D. Stemerding, P. Lindhout (eds.), Impact of hybrid potato: the future of hybrid potato from a systems perspective (pp. 161-174). Wageningen: Wageningen University Press.

 

2022

Beumer, K., Maat, H. & Glover, D. (2022). It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitionsEnvironmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42: 429-441.

Smallman, M. & Beumer, K. (2022) Economic inequality and Science, Technology and Innovation policy: the cases of the United Kingdom and South Africa. SocArXiv.

 

2021

Beumer, K. & Stemerding, D. (2021). A breeding consortium to realize the potential of hybrid diploid potato for food securityNature Plants, 7(12): 1530–1532. 

Beumer, K. (2021). Democratizing biotechnology requires more than availabilityNature Biotechnology, 39(4): 403. 

Beumer, K. & Swart, J.A.A. (2021). Who is the African Farmer? The importance of actor representations in the debate about biotechnology crops in Africa. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 34(1): 1-25. 

 

2020

Beumer, K., Stemerding, D. & Swart, J.A.A. (2020). Innovation and the commons: lessons from the governance of genetic resources in potato breeding. Agriculture and Human Values, 38(2): 525-539.

 

2019

Beumer, K. (2019). On the elusive nature of the public. Nature Nanotechnology, 14(6), 510-512. 

Beumer, K. (2019). How to include socio-economic considerations in decision-making on agricultural biotechnology? Two models from Kenya and South Africa. Agriculture and Human Values, 36(4), 669–684. 

Beumer, K. (2019). Nation-building and the governance of emerging technologies: the case of nanotechnology in India. NanoEthics, 13(1), 5-19. 

Beumer, K., & Edelenbosch, R. (2019). Hybrid potato breeding: a framework for mapping contested socio-technical futures. Futures, 109, 227-239. 

Almekinders, CJM., Beumer, K., Hauser, M., Misiko, M., Gatto, M., Nkurumwa, AO., & Erenstein, O. (2019). Understanding the relations between farmers’ seed demand and research methods: The challenge to do better. Outlook on Agriculture, 48(1), 16-21. 

 

2018

Beumer, K. (2018). Travelling risks: How did nanotechnology become a risk in India and South Africa? Journal of Risk Research, 21(11), 1362-1383. 

Beumer, K. (2018). Local subversions of colonial cultures: commodities and anti-commodities in global history. Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(2), 480-483. 

 

2017

Beumer, K. (2017). How economic assumptions constitute publics as consumers in South African nanotechnology governance. Science as Culture, 26(4), 481-490. 

Beumer, K., & Swart, J.A.A. (2017). Understanding agricultural biotechnology innovation in the context of development. In D. M. Bowman, A. Dijkstra, C. Fautz, J.S. Guivant, K. Konrad, C. Shelley-Egan, & S. Woll (eds.), The politics and situatedness of emerging technologies (pp. 91-110). Berlin, IOS Press. 

Beumer, K., & Mitzschke, A. (2017). Science and technology in the global South. In H. van Lente, T. Swierstra, S. Wyatt, & R. Zeiss (eds.), Knowing your way in STS (pp. 237-242). Maastricht: Datawyse. 

 

2016

Beumer, K. (2016). Broadening nanotechnology's impact on development. Nature Nanotechnology, 11(5), 398-400. 

Khandekar, A., Beumer, K., Manidipudi, A., Sekhsaria, P., & Bijker, W.E. (2016). STS for development. In U. Felt, R. Fouché, C. A. Miller, & L. Smith-Doerr (eds.), The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Fourth Edition (pp. 665-694). Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 

 

2015

Beumer, K. (2015). Publics, issues, and nanotechnology in Indian news mediaJournal of Scientometric Research, 4(3), 143-152. 

Beumer, K. (2015). The co-production of nanotechnology and development in India, South Africa, and Kenya. In D.M. Bowman, A. Dijkstra, C. Fautz, J. Guivant, K. Konrad, H. van Lente, & S. Woll (eds.), Practices of Innovation and Responsibility: Insights from Methods, Governance and Action (pp. 85-98). Berlin, IOS Press.

 

2014

Beumer, K. (2014). Nanotechnology and the public in India: a newspaper analysis. In P. Banerjee, S. Bhattacharya, P. Biswas, N. Kumar, V. Kumar, K. Mandal, K. Mehra, S. Pohit, R.S. Raina, & Y. Suman (eds.), India, Science and Technology: Vol. 3 (pp. 299-303). New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India. 

Beumer, K. (2014). Catching the rat: understanding multiple and contradictory human-rat relations as situated practices. Society and Animals, 22(1), 8-25. 

 

2013

Beumer, K., & Bhattacharya, S. (2013). Emerging technologies in India: developments, debates and silences about nanotechnology. Science and Public Policy, 40(5), 628-643. 

 

2012

Jayanthi, A. P., Beumer, K., & Bhattacharya, S. (2012). Nanotechnology: risk governance in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 47(4), 34-40. 

Beumer, K. (2012). A matter of scale: the visual representation of nanotechnologies. Spontaneous Generations. Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 6(1), 65-74. 

 

2009

Beumer, K. (2009). Het domesticeren van de rat: Rat-mens relaties in de twintigste eeuw in het Westen. Krisis. Journal for Empirical Philosophy, 29(1), 71-86.