{"id":242,"date":"2022-01-21T03:41:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T03:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2024-08-25T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T14:04:56","slug":"explore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to my personal website. I am <strong>Pieter E. Stek<\/strong>, a senior lecturer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/asb.edu.my\">Asia School of Business<\/a> in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and until recently postdoctoral scholar at ASB&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/asb.edu.my\/research-office\/the-asean-research-center-arc\/\">ASEAN Research Center<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/asb.edu.my\/research-office\/center-for-technology-strategy-sustainability\/\">Center for Technology, Strategy, and Sustainability<\/a>. I also serve as managing editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11135\"><em>Quality &amp; Quantity<\/em><\/a> and the start-up <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceasset.com\/journal\/rosa\/\">ROSA Journal<\/a><\/em>, and as an advisor to <a href=\"https:\/\/appliedhe.com\">AppliedHE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research interests include science and technology studies, sustainability issues (including ESG and carbon markets), and economic geography, with a focus on South East Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also learn about my work via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pstek\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PE_Stek\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=mp_zMTwAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Google Scholar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you will find content about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/category\/research\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"86\">My Research<\/a><\/strong> on the economic geography of science and technology (innovation, R&amp;D, sustainability), and related topics,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/category\/tutorial\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"85\">Mini-Tutorials<\/a><\/strong> mainly about R with applications for social science research.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/category\/discussion\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"84\">Discussions<\/a><\/strong> about personal finance\/investment, economics and Malaysia, which are outside of my current research area, but where I try to present a reasoned argument.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please use the <a href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/contact\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"49\">contact form<\/a> if you want to contact me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"latest-posts\">Latest Posts<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/2024\/coconuts-falling-from-the-sky-believing-in-hydropower-recs-with-zero-emissions\/\">Coconuts Falling from the Sky: Believing in Hydropower RECs with Zero Emissions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/2023\/global-relative-co-authorship-networks\/\">Global relative co-authorship networks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/2023\/malaysias-voluntary-carbon-market\/\">Malaysia&#8217;s Voluntary Carbon Market<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/2023\/korea-should-lead-on-international-carbon-trade-policies\/\">Korea Should Lead on International Carbon Trade Policies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/2023\/in-eu-malaysia-trade-relations-urgent-need-to-address-carbon-pricing\/\">In EU-Malaysia Trade Relations, Urgent Need to Address Carbon Pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"tags\">Tags<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-tag-cloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/tag\/article-6\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-113 tag-link-position-1\" style=\"font-size: 11.6pt;\" aria-label=\"Article 6 (2 items)\">Article 6<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/tag\/asb\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-95 tag-link-position-2\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"ASB (1 item)\">ASB<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/tag\/asean\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-9 tag-link-position-3\" style=\"font-size: 11.6pt;\" aria-label=\"ASEAN (2 items)\">ASEAN<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/tag\/bcx\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-120 tag-link-position-4\" 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I am Pieter E. Stek, a senior lecturer at the Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and until recently postdoctoral scholar at ASB&#8217;s ASEAN Research Center and the Center for Technology, Strategy, and Sustainability. I also serve as managing editor at Quality &amp; Quantity and the start-up ROSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ap.pstek.nl\/pstek_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}