Professor Dr. ir. Nico Baken currently holds a part-time chair in the Telecommunications Department at Delft University of Technology alongside his primary position as Visionary and Senior Strategist within the department Corporate Strategy of the Royal KPN, the Dutch incumbent Telecom operator.

His main interests concern Broadband Networks and Services, dealing with a broad range of themes such as Sensors (RFID’s), Vehicle, Home and Personal Networks, Fiber To The Home, fixed-mobile convergence, operations, financial strategies e.g. the Real Option Analysis, managerial complexity and regulations.

Recently, he introduced new concepts such as trans-sector innovation, “Streetlight” and the Integral Home/City Architecture to enhance and accelerate ict-applications in and across sectors such as healthcare, energy, transport and education. This now resulted in the national Master Plan Smart Living. These concepts are realized in a co-operation between KPN, TNO, Industrial partners and several Universities, comprising a group of 12 PhD’s, the Dutch Research Delta and TRANS. In the latter, the concept of Smart Living constitutes the dominant research line.

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