Martin Andersson

Background

Martin Andersson has a PhD in Economics from Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) since 2007. His dissertation focused on the relationships between the internationalization of firms, technology and innovation. After completion of his PhD, he worked as research coordinator and project leader at the Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2011 he became full professor and research leader at CIRCLE, Lund University, and was deputy director of CIRCLE 2012–2015. Since January 2016 he is professor of industrial economics at the Blekinge Institute of Technology.

In 2012, he was a recipient of the young researcher award in entrepreneurhsip for his research on the role of entrepreneurship in industrial dynamics and economic growth. He is also recipient of the Martin Beckmann Award for the best paper published in Papers in Regional Science. The paper Creative destruction and productivity: entrepreneurship by type, sector and sequence that is published in Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy was elected as ”Highly Commended Award Winner” by the Emerald Literati Networks.

Martin is significantly engaged in policy discussions and popular debates, and frequently writes reports, debate articles and participates in seminars. He is elected member of the prize committee for the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (the most prestigious prize for entrepreneurship research in the world with a prize sum of 100 000 euros), and is also editor of the journal Annals of Regional Science. Martin is also affiliated to the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum as well as the Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm.

According to IDEAS, Martin is among the top 50 researchers in economics in Sweden and among the top 5 % in Europe (see e.g. https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.sweden.html)

Research areas

industrial dynamics, entrepreneurship, urban economics and agglomeration economies, geography of growth and innovation, digitalization.

Some questions that Martin Andersson tries to answer in his research:

• What roles do large established firms and new young firms play in innovation and growth?
• How and why do cities and dense environments influence productivity and industrial dynamics?What explains the geography of economic growth and innovation?
• From where do new high-growth and high-impact firms come?
• How do digitalization, business dynamics and urbanization interact?

More information about Martin’s research is available on the following links:

Google Scholar citations: http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=KZ5WF3EAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao

Ideas profile: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pan113.html