Innovation Studies
Evolution and Future Challenges
Edited by Jan Fagerberg, Ben R. Martin, and Esben Sloth Andersen
Author Information
Edited by Jan Fagerberg, Professor, Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, and Professor, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Ben R. Martin, Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies, SPRU, University of Sussex, and Esben Sloth Andersen, Professor, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University
Jan Fagerberg is Professor at the Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University in Denmark and the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK) at the University of Oslo. In his research Fagerberg has, among other areas, focused on the relationship between technology (innovation and diffusion) and competitiveness, economic growth, and development. He has also worked on innovation theory, innovation systems, and innovation policy. Fagerberg has published extensively on these and other topics in books and journals, and his research is widely cited and disseminated.
Ben Martin is Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies in SPRU, University of Sussex. Between 1996 and 2004, he served as SPRU Director. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, both at the University of Cambridge. His research for the last 35 years has focused on science policy. He helped pioneer techniques for evaluating scientific laboratories, research programmes, and national scientific performance, and for conducting 'technology foresight'. In recent years, he has conducted research on the benefits from government funding of basic research, the changing nature and role of the university, the impact of the UK Research Assessment Exercise, creative knowledge environments, and the evolution of the field of science policy and innovation studies.
Esben Sloth Andersen is Professor of Evolutionary Economics at the Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University. His research has focussed on the theory, modelling and simulation of economic evolution, innovation in a systemic perspective, and evolution in the history of economic thought with special emphasis of the work of Joseph Schumpeter
Contributors:
Esben S. Andersen, Professor of Evolutionary Economics, Aalborg University
Giovanni Dosi, Professor of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Jan Fagerberg, Professor, Aalborg University and University of Oslo; Visiting Scholar University of Lund
Edward Lorenz, Professor of Economics, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Professor Emeritus, Aalborg University and Secretary General of Globelics
Ben R. Martin, Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies, University of Sussex
Mariana Mazzucato, RM Phillips Professor in Science and Technology Policy, University of Sussex
Richard R. Nelson, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Global Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Carlota Perez, Professor of Technology and Development, Technological University of Tallinn; Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics
Luc Soete, Rector Magnificus, Maastricht University
W. Edward Steinmueller, Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy, University of Sussex
